Central Park Band Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Mall

Conductor(s):
Harvey Bradley Dodworth

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 July 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 Jul 1870, 5:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Central Park Band

2)

National overture

Composer(s): Grafulla

3)

Prophète, Le, "Marche du sacre"

aka Prophete. Coronation march; Grand processional march; Krönungsmarsch; Crowning march

Composer(s): Meyerbeer

4)

"Du bist mir nah und doch so fern"

aka Thou art so near and yet so far ; Beloved star; Thou art so near

Composer(s): Reichardt [composer]

Text Author: Oxenford

5)

"Marseillaise, La"

aka Chant de guerre pour l’armée du Rhin; Marseillais' Hymn

Composer(s): Rouget de Lisle

Text Author: Rouget de Lisle

6)

"Partant pour la Syrie"

Composer(s): Hortense

7)

8)

Jubel-Ouvertüre

aka Jubel overture; Jubilee

Composer(s): Weber

9)

Grande duchesse de Gérolstein, La, selection

Composer(s): Offenbach

10)

Quartet, strings, H. III, 77, C major. Poco adagio

aka Variations on the Emperor hymn; Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser; Austrian National hymn variations; Kaiser Franz theme and variations

Composer(s): Haydn

11)

Sonnambula, La, selection

Composer(s): Bellini

12)

"Red, white, and blue, The"

aka red white and blue

Composer(s): Unknown composer

13)

Cheval de bronze, Le, overture

Composer(s): Auber

14)

Irish melodies, selections

aka Moore's melodies; Irish potpourri

Composer(s): Moore

Text Author: Moore

15)

Composer(s): Moore

16)

Composer(s): Bilse

17)

aka Union: north, south, east, and west

Composer(s): Dodworth

Citations

1)

Announcement: New York Herald, 04 July 1870, 10.

Includes programme. “Musical entertainments will also be given on Tuesday, in Tompkins Square; on Wednesday, in Washington Square; on Thursday, in Madison Square, and on Friday, at the Battery, from six to eight o’clock P. M., should be the weather be fine.

2)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 04 July 1870, 7.

3)

Announcement: New-York Times, 05 July 1870, 1.

Includes programme.

4)

Article: New York Sun, 07 July 1870, 2.

Letter to the editor suggesting that: the police be more proactive in preventing noisy boys from chasing after each other and screaming near the bandstand; an enterprising individual rent camp stools; the music be less scientific and more simple and lively.