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:
10 December 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

18 Sep 1870, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka Flying Dutchman overture
Composer(s): Wagner
3)
Composer(s): Gluck
4)
Composer(s): Unknown composer
5)
Composer(s): Schumann
7)
aka Invitation to the dance; Invitation a la valse
Composer(s): Weber
8)
aka 2 marches caracteristiques, C, D. 968b; 2 marches caractéristiques, op. 121; 2 marches caracteristiques, op. 121; March "Characteristic," op.121; Marches caractéristiques (2) for Piano 4 hands in C major, D 968b/Op. 121; Reiter Marsch
Composer(s): Schubert
9)
Composer(s): Thomas
11)
Composer(s): Strauss
12)
Composer(s): Liszt

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 September 1870, 8.

Includes program.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 18 September 1870, 7.

Includes program.

3)
Review: New York Herald, 19 September 1870, 7.

Brief; “These entertainments are of the highest standard of merit, and supply during the summer months what the Philharmonic Society gives in the winter.”