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

2)
aka Egmont overture; Goethe's Egmont
Composer(s): Beethoven
3)
aka Wedding sounds; Hochzeits Klange
Composer(s): Strauss
4)
aka Slumber song; Cradle song
Composer(s): Buergel
5)
aka Komarin Kain
Composer(s): Glinka
6)
aka Nuit de Walpurgis
Composer(s): Gounod
7)
aka Overture to Lohengrin; Introduction to Lohengrin; Prelude to Lohengrin
Composer(s): Wagner
9)
aka Guglielmo Tell; William Tell; Introduction
Composer(s): Rossini
10)
aka Merry Wives of Windsor
Composer(s): Nicolai
11)
aka Drommebilleder; Drømme Billeder fantasi; Traumbilder potpourri; Traumbilder selections; Traumbilder fantasie; Visions in a Dream; Pictures of dreams; Frambileter; Fraumbileter
Composer(s): Lumbye
12)
aka Konigslieder
Composer(s): Strauss
13)
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.”