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:
4 December 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

11 Sep 1870, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Egmont, overture
aka Egmont overture; Goethe's Egmont
Composer(s): Beethoven
3)
Hochzeits-Klänge, op. 242
aka Wedding sounds; Hochzeits Klange; Wedding festival
Composer(s): Strauss
4)
"Schlummerlied"
aka Slumber song; Cradle song
Composer(s): Buergel
5)
Kamarinskaya
aka Komarin Kain
Composer(s): Glinka
6)
Faust, ballet
aka Nuit de Walpurgis
Composer(s): Gounod
7)
Lohengrin, Vorspiel
aka Overture to Lohengrin; Introduction to Lohengrin; Prelude to Lohengrin
Composer(s): Wagner
8)
Septet, strings, winds, op. 20, E-flat major. Selections
Composer(s): Beethoven
9)
Guillaume Tell, overture
aka Guglielmo Tell; William Tell; Introduction
Composer(s): Rossini
10)
Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Die, overture
aka Merry Wives of Windsor
Composer(s): Nicolai
11)
Drømmebilleder
aka Drommebilleder; Dromme Billeder ; Traumbilder ; Visions in a Dream; Pictures of dreams; Frambileter; Fraumbileter; Cloud pictures; Dissolving views; Nebelbilder
Composer(s): Lumbye
12)
Königslieder, op. 334
aka Konigslieder
Composer(s): Strauss
13)
Düppeler Sturm
aka Düppeler Sturm-Marsch; Düppler Sturm; Duppeler Sturm; Prussian Army march; Sturin quickstep; Dueppel; Storming of the fortifications at Dueppel; Düppelmarsch; Düppel-Schanzen-Sturm-Marsch; Sturm; Doppler storm
Composer(s): Piefke

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 September 1870, 7.

Includes program.

2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 12 September 1870, 8.

“No man has done more in this country to elevate the popular taste in music and to make known the standard works of the great masters than Theodore Thomas.”