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:
14 February 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Jul 1869, 8:00 PM

Program Details

The citations note that Strauss’s Wein, Weibe, und Gesang and Schützen-Quadrille are “new.” The citations of the fantasia on Ernani list Verdi as its composer; Music in Gotham assumes the version performed was Thomas’s own.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra;  Jules [cornet] Levy
2)
Rienzi, overture
Composer(s): Wagner
3)
Amélie
aka Amalia
Composer(s): Lumbye
4)
Kinderscenen, "Träumerei"
aka Traumerei
Composer(s): Schumann
5)
Stadt und Land, op. 322
aka Town and country
Composer(s): Strauss
6)
Fantasia on Verdi's Ernani
Composer(s): Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]
7)
Maximilian Robespierre
Composer(s): Litolff
8)
Schützen
aka Schutzen
Composer(s): Strauss, Strauss, Strauss
9)
Leviathan polka
aka Levy Athen polka; Levy-Athen polka
Composer(s): Levy
Participants:  Jules [cornet] Levy
10)
Fra Diavolo, overture
Composer(s): Auber
11)
Fantasia on Meyerbeer's Robert le diable
aka Robert the devil
Composer(s): Unknown composer
12)
Wein, Weib, und Gesang, op. 333
aka Wine, women, and song; Wine women and song
Composer(s): Strauss
13)
Semiramide, "Bel raggio lusinghier"
aka Bright ray of hope
Composer(s): Rossini
Participants:  Jules [cornet] Levy

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 17 July 1869.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 20 July 1869, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 July 1869, 12.