Thomas Popular Garden Concert: Grand Gala Night

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

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

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
19 November 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Sep 1870, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Konigs-Polonaise; King's polonaise
Composer(s): Bilse
3)
aka Flying Dutchman overture
Composer(s): Wagner
4)
aka Wedding sounds; Hochzeits Klange
Composer(s): Strauss
7)
Composer(s): Weber
8)
aka Slumber song; Cradle song
Composer(s): Buergel
9)
aka Mephisto waltz, no. 1; Faust waltz
Composer(s): Liszt
10)
aka Guglielmo Tell; William Tell; Introduction
Composer(s): Rossini
11)
Composer(s): Strauss
12)
aka Am schonen Rhein; On the beautiful Rhine
Composer(s): Kéler
13)
aka Kronungsmarsch; Coronation of Wilhelm I; King Wilhelm coronation march
Composer(s): Meyerbeer

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 September 1870, 7.

Includes program.

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 02 September 1870, 12.

Includes program.

3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 03 September 1870, 4.

Forthcoming final week of the season.

4)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 03 September 1870, 4.

“Mr. Theodore Thomas has nearly finished his season of Garden Concerts, next week being the last for this year. They have been a great boon to New-York, and we shall mourn their cessation.”