Thomas Popular Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

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

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
9 July 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

28 Jul 1870, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Anacréon, overture
aka Amour fugitif; Acacreon; Anacreon, overture
Composer(s): Cherubini
3)
Symphony, no. 7, op. 92, A major. Allegretto
Composer(s): Beethoven
4)
Symphony, no. 7, op. 92, A major. Presto
Composer(s): Beethoven

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 28 July 1870, 12.

No programme.

2)
: Strong, George Templeton. New-York Historical Society. The Diaries of George Templeton Strong, 1863-1869: Musical Excerpts from the MSs, transcribed by Mary Simonson. ed. by Christopher Bruhn., 28 July 1870.

“Ellie & I have just returned from Theodore Thomas’ concert, through the introductory movement of this shower, which was piano & moderato. We took a preliminary drive through the park. Its greenery will be much gladdened by this pouring rain.

Theodore Thomas concert room well filled. His concerts are becoming an institution & a meritorious one. They are doing much to promote the cause of music of good morals. Cherubini’s overture to Anacreon & the 2nd & 3rd movements of the 7th symphony were the best things on tonight’s programme. The other pieces were brilliant waltzes & the like. Thomas takes his piano passages much too piano for his concert room, where there is always a certain amount of noise from people coming & going, and from waiters moving about with lager & cigars. Certain passages in the symphony were simply inaudible. But notwithstanding these drawbacks, I think the audience more intelligently appreciative than an average Philharmonic congregation.”