Thomas Popular Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

Manager / Director:
J. [manager] Gosche

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

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 February 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 Jul 1869, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Composer(s): Spontini
3)
aka Liebes-Träume; Liebes Träume; Brünner Walzer; Dreams of Love
Composer(s): Lanner
4)
aka Traumerei
Composer(s): Schumann
5)
Composer(s): Strauss
6)
aka Guglielmo Tell; William Tell
Composer(s): Unknown composer
7)
aka Merry Wives of Windsor
Composer(s): Nicolai
8)
Composer(s): Schubert
Participants:  Jules [cornet] Levy
9)
Composer(s): Strauss
10)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
11)
aka Poet and peasant overture
Composer(s): Suppé
12)
Composer(s): Frewin
Participants:  Jules [cornet] Levy
13)
aka Genevieve de Brabant, selections
Composer(s): Offenbach

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 17 July 1869.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 July 1869, `2.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 17 July 1869, 7.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 17 July 1869, 3.
5)
Announcement: New York Post, 17 July 1869, 2.

“The fact that the Central Park Garden, in spite of its distance from the hotels, is better attended than any theatre in the city, is due in a great degree to the coolness of its airy hall and its large and breezy garden.”