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:
25 June 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

22 Jul 1871, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Reine de Saba, La, Marche et cortège
aka March and Cortege; Grand march
Composer(s): Gounod
3)
Otello, overture
Composer(s): Rossini
4)
Promotionen, op. 221
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
Märchen, Ein, op. 44
aka Marchen, Ein, op. 44
Composer(s): Wüerst
6)
Sommernachtstraum, Ein, overture
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
7)
Symphony, no. 1, op. 21, C major. Andante cantabile
Composer(s): Beethoven
8)
Frohes Leben, op. 272
Composer(s): Strauss
9)
Lohengrin, Vorspiel and chorus
aka Introduction and chorus to Lohengrin
Composer(s): Wagner
10)
Maritana, overture
Composer(s): Wallace
11)
Étoile du nord, L’, entre'acte
aka Etoile du nord, L’, entre'acte
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
12)
Neckerei, op. 262
Composer(s): Strauss
13)
Honneur
Composer(s): Lumbye

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 22 July 1871, 2.

Includes program; also included an additional polka by an unidentified Strauss that is illegible.  

2)
Review: New York Herald, 23 July 1871, 8.

“An evening with Thomas’ unrivalled orchestra is about the most pleasurable entertainment we can look for this summer. Despite the correspondence from the watering places and the announcement in fashionable society that ‘everybody is out of town,’ one may meet here every evening many of the recognized leaders of ton, and modistes can admire their choicest handiwork.”