Venue(s):
Central Park Mall
Conductor(s):
Harvey Bradley Dodworth
Price: Free
Event Type:
Band
Performance Forces:
Instrumental
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
21 May 2022
Identical to the announcement in the New York Times.
“The Central Park Commissioners announce that, if the weather be fine, there will be music on the Mall at the Park to-day, commencing at 4 o’clock. The following is the programme:—[lists program].”
“All the lines of cars leading to the Park yesterday were crowded with pleasure seekers as early as two o’clock. There is a regular ‘set’ who periodically go to this delightful retreat—not that there is any particular affinity between its members, or any actual organization; but that vast army of nurses, with their infants, may be seen at any time on Saturday afternoon swarming over the Mall and losing themselves in the tortuous windings of the Ramble. They did not by any means make up the whole of the large crowd that assembled there yesterday to hear the music, though they were the first on the ground… By four o’clock the large crowd moves leisurely up toward the music stand. About this gorgeous piece of gingerbread workmanship are the centres [sic] of interest when the band plays. Yesterday the arrangements were very fine for the auditors, tents being erected, under which comfortable seats were placed for a radius of a hundred feet. The scene at this point was very animated. Dodworth’s band, covered with white beavers, discoursed such popular music as ‘Sailor Boy,’ ‘Lancers,’ ‘La Veuve Clicquot’ and gems like the ‘Walnut Grove Waltz’ and ‘The Marriage of Figaro.’” Continues about general park activities.