Central Park Garden Concert

Includes program.

“Central Park Garden. Thomas’ concerts.—The throng which nightly visits the cool bowers and brilliant halls of this popular resort evidences the gradual growth of public taste to cosmopolitan standard. Gardens we have had in olden time, like the Vauxhall, with its balloon ascension and fireworks, but they lacked certain elements indispensable to the more refined portion of our population. The multiform features of city life, as now existing, offer new pleasanter attractions than the modern gardens, such as those at Central Park. The merchant, the banker, and all who toil through the day, seem to find relaxation and amusement in recourse to them just as much as they would at a watering place or at the seaside, without being compelled to undergo the tedium of a ride by rail or being hurried to catch an afternoon steamer as an intermediate sacrifice in pursuit of pleasure. The whirl of promenaders and the strains of delicious music recall in no faint degree the similar throngs and music at the large hotels in the country. The visitor may as he chooses have starlight or gaslight, and sip his cobbler and puff his cigar beneath the one or the other. In the music he has certainly the advantage of the guest at the summer resort, for the concerts are more artistic and more carefully prepared.”