Thomas Popular Garden Concert: 46th

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 October 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 Jun 1870, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Composer(s): Schumann
3)
Composer(s): Weber
4)
aka Africaine potpourri
Composer(s): Meyerbeer

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 23 June 1870, 12.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 23 June 1870, 7.
3)
Review: New York Herald, 24 June 1870, 7.

“With far superior arrangement to that which characterized the season at this establishment last year, the concerts are being greeted nightly by numerous and fashionable audiences. Decorated in superb style, and with arrangements of which all speak highly, it is not at all surprising that the Central Park Garden should have so far been characterized by the most enjoyable entertainments. Thomas’ splendid orchestra is a host in itself, but the surroundings of the place are such as to render the concern quite an Elysium during an evening’s stay. Music and ventilation and an occasional promenade harmonize beautifully in summer time, and nowhere more perfectly than at this very popular place of amusement. The attendance last evening was unusually large and the performance by the orchestra was throughout most thoroughly appreciated.”

4)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 24 June 1870, 5.

“Mr. Theodore Thomas, who is to be warmly congratulated for keeping clear of the late unlamented ‘Beethoven’ Festival, continues his admirable concerts at the Central Park Garden with unvarying and gratifying success. Last night was one of the evenings devoted to classical music—that is to say, selections from symphonies, overtures of a high order, and other good things, modified with a due admixture of Strauss waltzes, operatic fantasias, and marches. The overtures to ‘Genovena’ [sic] and ‘Preciosa,’ airs from ‘L’Africaine,’ and two movements from Schubert’s beautiful Symphony in C, were among the best pieces on his program. His orchestra is maintained at the high standard for which it has long been celebrated, and we are glad to see that he receives a cordial support from the public. We owe Mr. Thomas far more than most of us suspect, and, indeed, there is no leader in America who has done so much for the orchestra as he, and been upon the whole so poorly rewarded for it.”