Central Park Mall Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Mall

Conductor(s):
Harvey Bradley Dodworth

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
3 July 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 Sep 1869, 4:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Central Park Band
2)
Zampa, overture
aka Introduction
Composer(s): Hérold
3)
Thou art so near
Composer(s): Dodworth
4)
Mildred waltz
Composer(s): Godfrey
5)
INTERMISSION
6)
Orphée aux enfers, selection
aka Orphee aux enfers, selection
Composer(s): Offenbach
7)
Long Branch
Composer(s): Bradley
8)
Lieder, mixed voices, op. 59. Ruhethal
aka Vale of rest
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
9)
Quadrille on Offenbach's Le Château à toto
10)
INTERMISSION
11)
Heimkehr aus der Fremde, Die, overture
aka Son and stranger overture
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
12)
Fantasia on themes from Verdi's Il trovatore
Composer(s): Unknown composer
13)
Citizens' march
Composer(s): Kuppf
14)
Ariel
Composer(s): Dodworth
15)
Home thoughts
Composer(s): Dodworth

Citations

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

Includes programme.

2)
Review: New-York Times, 05 September 1869, 6.

“Towards the close of the summer season the attendance of visitors at the Park seems rather to increase than diminish. The few glorious days of clear blue sky and warm sunlight, tempered by cool, vigorous breezes, remaining to us in the fading of summer are fully and gladly availed of by everybody with the least possible leisure time on hand.

Yesterday in the early afternoon the walks and drives of the Park were peopled from end to end by what should seem as happy a multitude as ever got together. The dresses of the women were brilliant… [Goes on to describe carriages and people.]

The drive in the Park was crowded to excess yesterday. The Mall was thronged with promenaders, and the neighborhood of the music stand where Dodworth’s band [sic] filled the air with the inspirations of Meyerbeer and Auber was one grand mass of decorous and delighted humanity. The gondolas and barges on the lake were occupied throughout the day, and in every nook and shady bypath the pictures of rustic amours amid rural scenery, which Claude Meinotte of all men knew so well how to draw, were reproduced in endless variety.”