Thomas Popular Garden Concert: 4th

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

Proprietor / Lessee:
7th Ave. between 58th and 59th Sts. Central Park Garden

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

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
22 May 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

12 May 1870, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Festklange; Jours de fête; Festival sounds; Fest-Klänge
Composer(s): Liszt

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 12 May 1870, 9.
2)
Review: New York Post, 13 May 1870, 3.

“These every evening’s instrumental concerts at Central Park Garden have become very attractive, and are attended by large numbers of our people. The proprietors, Messrs. John Koch & Brothers, have ornamented the place with great taste, and have made it—some of the chairs and tables excepted—a thing of beauty to look upon. Those who hunger for food or drink are politely waited on, and satisfactorily gratified. Everything is orderly and appropriate, and as quiet as the privileged walking of the bipeds will allow. Flakes of smoke from the eternal weed diversify the scene and lull many a restless brain to repose. Every man—thoroughly elaborated by the hatter, the tailor, the shoemaker, the glove and shirt maker—moves around as if he were a universe in himself, and had monopolized all the perfections of humanity. Here and there, like occasional stars in a dark firmament, the fair descendants of Eve are to be seen radiant with enjoyment. Add to all this the charming effect of the music, and the picture is complete.

“Last evening the concert consisted of twelve pieces from the most celebrated composers, some of which were new to the public. The Festival March, from Liszt, as one of these, was particularly striking and admirably given. Mr. Thomas is such a golden fountain of music, that it is seldom anything inferior is to be heard from him; and his orchestra is generally faithful and spirited in its interpretations. Nothing much short of this would meet the requirements of a programme such as we had last evening, upon which figured the undying names of Mozart, Strauss, Weber, Beethoven, Bach and Mendelssohn.”