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

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra;  Jules [cornet] Levy
2)
Vestale, La, overture
Composer(s): Spontini
3)
Liebesträume, Brünner Walzer, op. 150
aka Liebes-Träume; Liebes Träume; Brünner Walzer; Dreams of Love
Composer(s): Lanner
4)
Kinderscenen, "Träumerei"
aka Traumerei
Composer(s): Schumann
5)
Frauenherz, op. 166
Composer(s): Strauss
6)
Fantasia on themes from Rossini's Guillaume Tell
aka Guglielmo Tell; William Tell
Composer(s): Unknown composer
7)
Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Die, overture
aka Merry Wives of Windsor
Composer(s): Nicolai
8)
Serenade, unidentified
Composer(s): Schubert
Participants:  Jules [cornet] Levy
9)
Wiener Stimmen, op. 239
Composer(s): Strauss
10)
Fantasia on Weber's Der Freischütz
Composer(s): Unknown composer
11)
Dichter und Bauer, overture
aka Poet and peasant overture
Composer(s): Suppé
12)
Excelsior, [polka]
Composer(s): Frewin
Participants:  Jules [cornet] Levy
13)
Geneviève de Brabant, selections
aka Genevieve de Brabant, selections
Composer(s): Offenbach

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 17 July 1869.
2)
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.”

3)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 17 July 1869, 3.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 17 July 1869, 7.
5)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 July 1869, `2.