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)
INTERMISSION
8)
Jubel-Ouvertüre
aka Jubel overture; Jubilee; Feste
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)
Viva Italia
Composer(s): Moore
16)
Advance
Composer(s): Bilse
17)
Union, The
aka Union: north, south, east, and west
Composer(s): Dodworth

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 04 July 1870, 7.
2)
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.  

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.