Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
04 Sep 1869, 8:00 PM
Program Details
“Grand gala night.” The citations list Verdi as the composer of the Ernani fantasia, but Music in Gotham assumes this is Thomas’s version, which he often programmed at the Popular Garden Concert series. Citations note the “first time” of the march from Lohengrin; this probably indicates the first time of the 1869 season, as Thomas had programmed the work during his Popular Garden Concerts in 1867.
Performers and/or Works Performed
3)
aka Namensfeier
Composer(s): Beethoven
5)
aka Concerthaus
Composer(s): Bilse
6)
Composer(s): Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]
8)
aka Lob der Tranen;
Tear, The
Composer(s): Schubert
9)
aka Capricia;
Capriccio
Composer(s): Hager
10)
aka Etoile du nord, L', overture
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
11)
aka Bright ray of hope
Composer(s): Rossini
12)
aka Wine, women, and song;
Wine women and song
Composer(s): Strauss
14)
aka Gruss ans Liebchen galopp;
Gruss aus Liebchen;
Greetings to my love galop;
Love's greeting;
Greeting from love
Composer(s): Michaelis [comp.-cond.]
15)
aka Good night, farewell;
Gute Nacht
Composer(s): Kücken
16)
aka Fantasie on a theme from Petrella's Ione
Composer(s): Unknown composer
17)
aka Freischutz overture
Composer(s): Weber
19)
aka Zug der Frauen zum Münster;
Elsa's procession to the Cathedral
Composer(s): Wagner
Citations
1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 04 September 1869, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 04 September 1869, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New-York Daily Tribune, 04 September 1869, 3.
4)
Announcement: New York Sun, 04 September 1869, 2.
“Thomas’s Concerts.—The glorious moonlight nights have lately added a charm to these concerts, which the public has been quick to appreciate. The management has not been wanting to the patrons of the garden in providing requent changes in the bill of the evening. Levy is the solo performance, and dispenses his sonorous tones in two encores every night. The orchestra is so expert from practice, and from the excellence of its constituents, that its superior could nto be found on this side of the Atlantic. No entertainment more charming can be found for a summer evening by denziens or strangers than Thomas’s concerts.”
