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: $.50; $2.50 private boxes

Event Type:
Band, Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
13 September 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Sep 1869, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Last grand gala night.” Parlow’s Anvil polka given by request. 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.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra;  Thomas Band;  Jules [cornet] Levy
2)
Central Park Garden festival
Composer(s): Hilbrecht
3)
Uriel Acosta, [overture]
aka Ariel Acosta
Composer(s): Schindelmeisser
4)
Romanzen und Balladen, op. 49. Beiden Grenadiere, Die
aka Two grenadiers
Composer(s): Schumann
Text Author: Heine
5)
An der schönen, blauen Donau, op. 314
aka Blue Danube
Composer(s): Strauss
6)
Fantasia on Verdi's Ernani
Composer(s): Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra;  Thomas Band
7)
Türkischer Sturm-Marsch
aka Turkischer Sturm-Marsch
Composer(s): Hamm
Participants:  Thomas Band
8)
Lieder und Gesänge, op. 10. “Du bist wie une Blume”
aka O, thou art like a flower
Composer(s): Heinemann
Participants:  Thomas Band
9)
Fantasia on American national airs
Composer(s): Wehli
Participants:  Thomas Band
10)
Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, op. 27
aka Calm sea and prosperous voyage
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
11)
Stabat Mater, "Cujus animam"
Composer(s): Rossini
Participants:  Jules [cornet] Levy
12)
Anvil polka
aka Enclume; Amboss
Composer(s): Parlow
13)
Tannhäuser, "Freudig begrüssen wir die edle Halle," Allegro
aka March; Fest march; Festmarsch; Grand march; Tannhauser. Freudig begrussen wir die edle Halle. Allegro
Composer(s): Wagner
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra;  Thomas Band
14)
Militaire
aka Armée; Armee; Militia; Miliz
Composer(s): Heinsdorff
Participants:  Thomas Band
15)
Wandering minstrel
Composer(s): Auber
Participants:  Thomas Band
16)
Grande duchesse de Gérolstein, La, selections
Composer(s): Offenbach
Participants:  Thomas Band
17)
Fra Diavolo, overture
Composer(s): Auber
18)
Central Park Garden polka
Composer(s): Levy
Participants:  Jules [cornet] Levy
19)
Prophète, Le, "Marche du sacre"
aka Prophete. Coronation march; Grand processional march; Krönungsmarsch; Crowning march
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra;  Thomas Band

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 25 September 1869, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 25 September 1869, 12.