Thomas Popular Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

Conductor(s):
Theodore Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]

Price: $.35; $2.00 extra for private box

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 April 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Aug 1869, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Thomas Orchestra; Jules [cornet] Levy

2)

Entführung aus dem Serail, Die, overture

Composer(s): Mozart

3)

Adieux, Les, op. 185

aka Les Adieux-Walzer. Op. 185

Composer(s): Lanner

4)

Symphony, no. 5, op. 107, D major. Scherzo

Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

5)

Frauenherz, op. 166

Composer(s): Strauss

6)

Kreuzfidel!, op. 301

Composer(s): Strauss

7)

Fantasy on Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor

Composer(s): Unknown composer

8)

Sommernachtstraum, Ein, overture

Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

9)

aka Last greeting; Adieu! 'Tis love's last greeting

Composer(s): Weyrauch

Participants: Jules [cornet] Levy

10)

Wiener Stimmen, op. 239

Composer(s): Strauss

11)

Faust, ballet

aka Nuit de Walpurgis

Composer(s): Gounod

12)

Rose von Erin, Die, overture

Composer(s): Benedict

13)

Leviathan polka

aka Levy Athen polka; Levy-Athen polka

Composer(s): Levy

Participants: Jules [cornet] Levy

14)

Prophète, Le, "Patineurs' galop"

aka Schlittschuh galop

Composer(s): Meyerbeer

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 21 August 1869, 3.

Includes program.

2)

Review: New York Sun, 23 August 1869, 2.

”Theodore Thomas’s concerts have been crowded during the past hot weather. The material of his orchestra could hardly be better, and the solo performance of Levy gives the liveliest pleasure. So remarkable a cornet player hardly exists as Levy, and the annals of music mention but few equal to him in purity of style and manliness of tone.”