Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
24 Jul 1869, 8:00 PM
Program Details
This is the only concert in this series for which the advertisements divide the program into three “parts†(separated here by intermissions). The program is typically listed without any breaks. 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
3)
aka Carnival messenger
Composer(s): Strauss
4)
aka Traumerei
Composer(s): Schumann
5)
aka Concerthaus
Composer(s): Bilse
6)
Composer(s): Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]
8)
aka Son and stranger overture
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
10)
aka Wine, women, and song;
Wine women and song
Composer(s): Strauss
11)
aka Schwer und Waffenweihe;
Schwur und Waffenweihe;
Schwur und Schwerterweihe;
Gebet und Waffenweihe;
Prayer and Presentation of Weapons;
Consecration of the swords;
Benediction of the daggers
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
13)
aka Guglielmo Tell;
William Tell;
Introduction
Composer(s): Rossini
14)
aka Levy Athen polka;
Levy-Athen polka
Composer(s): Levy
15)
aka Schutzen
Composer(s): Strauss, Strauss, Strauss
Citations
1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 24 July 1869.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 24 July 1869, 9.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 24 July 1869, 7.
4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 24 July 1869, 12.