Central Park Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

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

Price: $.50; $1 private box

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
24 June 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

16 Jul 1871, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 16 July 1871, 7.

“Change of programme every evening.”

2)
Announcement: New York Sun, 17 July 1871, 2.

“Mr. Listemann, who has been a leading violinist in Boston for the last few years, has transferred his residence to this city, and is now playing first violin at the Central Park Garden concerts, occasionally also appearing as a soloist. Next winter he will discontinue his orchestral playing and will be the solo violinist of Thomas’s concerts.

What is Boston’s loss is our gain, for Mr. Listemann has at once been recognized as an artist of the best type, having a broad and fine musical intelligence, and being in sympathy with the highest and best forms of musical composition. His tone is pure and true and beautiful, and his playing such as every connoisseur can listen to with unalloyed pleasure.”