Central Park Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

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

Price: $.50

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 August 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 May 1871, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Amazonen-Marsch
aka Amazonian march
Composer(s): Michaelis [comp.-cond.]
3)
Semiramide, overture
Composer(s): Rossini
4)
Carnevals-Botschafter, op. 270
aka Carnival messenger
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
Reine de Saba, La, ballet
aka Queen of Sheba
Composer(s): Gounod
6)
Euryanthe, overture
Composer(s): Weber
7)
Gesänge, op. 107. Abendlied
aka Evening song; Abendlied; Abendgesang; Gesange, op. 107. Abendlied
Composer(s): Schumann
8)
Work, unidentified
Composer(s): Haydn
9)
Neu Wien, op. 342
Composer(s): Strauss
10)
Sommernachtstraum, Ein, selections
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
11)
Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Die, overture
aka Merry Wives of Windsor
Composer(s): Nicolai
12)
Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Die, finale
aka Geschopfe des Prometheus, Die, finale
Composer(s): Beethoven
13)
Im Krapfenwald’l, op. 336
Composer(s): Strauss
14)
Huguenots, Les, "Skating galop"
Composer(s): Meyerbeer

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 16 May 1871, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 May 1871, 6.

Includes programme; unidentified work by Haydn: “Serenade.”