Schultz & Warker’s Springs Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Mineral Springs

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

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
25 September 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 Sep 1869, Afternoon

Program Details

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
2)
Siegesmarsch
aka Victory; March of victory; Friedrich Carl Siegesmarsch; Grand triumph
Composer(s): Bilse
3)
Guillaume Tell, overture
aka Guglielmo Tell; William Tell; Introduction
Composer(s): Rossini
4)
Soldaten-Tänze, op. 173
aka Soldier's dance; Danses militaires; Soldiers' Dances
Composer(s): Lanner
5)
Lohengrin, Vorspiel and chorus
aka Introduction and chorus to Lohengrin
Composer(s): Wagner
6)
INTERMISSION
7)
Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Die, overture
aka Merry Wives of Windsor
Composer(s): Nicolai
8)
"Wanderer, Der," op. 13
Composer(s): Fesca
9)
Linnet, The
Composer(s): Bousquet
10)
Fantasia on Verdi's Ernani
Composer(s): Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]
11)
INTERMISSION
12)
Sirène, La, overture
aka La Syrenne; Sirene, La, overture
Composer(s): Auber
13)
Abendständchen, op. 12
Composer(s): Herfurth
14)
Petitionen, op. 153
Composer(s): Strauss
15)
Gruss ans Liebchen, op. 25
aka Gruss ans Liebchen galopp; Gruss aus Liebchen; Greetings to my love galop; Love's greeting; Greeting from love
Composer(s): Michaelis [comp.-cond.]

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 29 September 1869, 2.

“The last of this year’s concerts at the Central Park Mineral Springs will be given this afternoon by the orchestra under the direction of Mr. Theodore Thomas. The following is the programme: [lists program].

It is said that Messrs. Schultze & Warker, to whom the public is indebted for these concerts, intend to resume the matinées next season at the springs.”