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 PMProgram 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.â€
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
3)
aka Soldier's dance;
Danses militaires;
Soldiers' Dances
Composer(s): Lanner
6)
aka The Standard Bearer;
The Standard Watch;
Der Fahnenträger;
Der Fahnen Träger;
The Warrior Bard
Composer(s): Lindpaintner
Participants: Frederick Letsch; Friedrich [cornet à piston] Dietz
7)
aka Wine, women, and song;
Wine women and song
Composer(s): Strauss
8)
aka Drommebilleder;
Dromme Billeder ;
Traumbilder ;
Visions in a Dream;
Pictures of dreams;
Frambileter;
Fraumbileter;
Cloud pictures;
Dissolving views;
Nebelbilder
Composer(s): Lumbye
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