Thomas Popular Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

Manager / Director:
J. [manager] Gosche

Conductor(s):
Theodore Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]

Price: $.35; $2.35 private boxes

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 February 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Jul 1869, Evening

Program Details

The citations do not provide a composer for the fantasia on L’Africaine; because this is a Theodore Thomas concert, Music in Gotham assumes it was Thomas’s own arrangement.

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Calm sea and prosperous voyage
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
3)
Composer(s): Strauss
4)
aka Two grenadiers
Composer(s): Schumann
Text Author: Heine
5)
aka Papageno polka
Composer(s): Stasny
6)
Composer(s): Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]
7)
aka Jeunesse de Henri IV; La jeunesse de Henri IV; Chasse du Jeune Henri; La chasse du Jeune Henri; Chasse, La
Composer(s): Méhul
8)
aka Méditation sur le 1er Prélude de piano de J. S. Bach; Meditation, prelude, for piano, organ and cello; Meditation on Bach's Prelude No. 1
Composer(s): Gounod
Participants:  Jules [cornet] Levy
9)
Composer(s): Strauss
10)
aka Fantasia on themes from Wagner's Tannhauser; Fantasie on themes from Wagner's Tannhäuser
Composer(s): Unknown composer
11)
aka Guglielmo Tell; William Tell; Introduction
Composer(s): Rossini
12)
aka Carnival of Venice
Composer(s): Paganini
Participants:  Jules [cornet] Levy
13)
Composer(s): Offenbach

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 09 July 1869.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 14 July 1869, 12.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 14 July 1869, 7.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 14 July 1869, 3.