Central Park Band Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park North End of the Green

Conductor(s):
Harvey Bradley Dodworth

Price: Free

Event Type:
Band

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 May 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 Aug 1869, 5:00 PM

Program Details

This is the first of 1869 weekday concerts.The band is not at the Central Park Mall, but at the north end of the green. The weekday concerts continue through September. They begin at a later time than the Saturday concerts and have only one intermission. The "Signal" march that announces the Saturday concerts is not heard on weekdays, nor is Dodworth's closing number, "Home Thoughts."

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Conductor: Dodworth, Harvey Bradley
Participants:  Central Park Band
2)
aka Good health quickstep; Turner March, “Good Health”; Leipziger Turnfest; Turnfest in Leipzig; Turnerfest march; Turner-Fest march
Composer(s): Hamm
3)
Composer(s): Verdi
4)
aka Kammerball Taenze; Kammer-Ball Tänze;
Composer(s): Lanner
5)
Composer(s): Herfurth
6)
Composer(s): Bousquet
7)
aka Midsummer night's dream, A; Songe d'une nuit d'été
Composer(s): Unknown composer
9)
aka Krondiamanten, Die
Composer(s): Auber
10)
Composer(s): Strauss
11)
aka Introduction and chorus to Lohengrin
Composer(s): Wagner
12)
aka Concerthaus
Composer(s): Bilse
13)
aka Scene de ballet; Scène de ballet
Composer(s): Meyerbeer

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 03 August 1869, 2.

Includes program.