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:
21 February 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

26 Jul 1869, 8:00 PM

Program Details

An announcement of 07/26/69 in the New York Herald makes note of Thomas’s “two unrivalled orchestras.” It is unclear if this means that the Thomas Band also participated in this event. The citations note that Parlow’s Frühlingsmarsch and Strauss’s Die Sirenen, Eile mit Weile, and Disputationen are “new.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Fruhlingsmarsch
Composer(s): Parlow
3)
aka Soldier's dance; Danses militaires; Soldiers' Dances
Composer(s): Lanner
4)
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
Composer(s): Strauss
6)
aka The Standard Bearer; The Standard Watch; Der Fahnenträger; Der Fahnen Träger; The Warrior Bard
Composer(s): Lindpaintner
7)
aka Wine, women, and song; Wine women and song
Composer(s): Strauss
8)
aka Drommebilleder; Drømme Billeder fantasi; Traumbilder potpourri; Traumbilder selections; Traumbilder fantasie; Visions in a Dream; Pictures of dreams; Frambileter; Fraumbileter
Composer(s): Lumbye
9)
aka Poet and peasant overture
Composer(s): Suppé
10)
aka Méditation sur le 1er Prélude de piano de J. S. Bach; Meditation, prelude, for piano, organ and cello; Meditation on Bach's Prelude No. 1
Composer(s): Gounod
Participants:  Jules [cornet] Levy
11)
Composer(s): Strauss
12)
aka Concerthaus
Composer(s): Bilse
13)
aka Schutzen
Composer(s): Strauss, Strauss, Strauss
14)
aka Guglielmo Tell; William Tell; Introduction
Composer(s): Rossini
15)
Composer(s): Levy
Participants:  Jules [cornet] Levy
16)
aka Genevieve de Brabant, selections
Composer(s): Offenbach

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Musik-Zeitung, 24 July 1869.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 26 July 1869, 7.
3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 26 July 1869, 4.

"Messrs. Gosche and Thomas are the magnates that draw such large and delighted audiences nightly to the Central Park Garden. The one looks after the bodily comforts of their guests, while the other steeps their senses in a flood of harmony from his ‘two unrivalled orchestras.’”

4)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 26 July 1869, 2.
5)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 26 July 1869, 3.