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:
2 September 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

26 May 1871, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Thomas Orchestra

2)

Semiramide, overture

Composer(s): Rossini

3)

Fata Morgana, op. 330

Composer(s): Strauss

4)

Eljen a Magyar!, op. 332

Composer(s): Strauss

5)

Symphony, no. 5, op. 67, C minor. Andante

Composer(s): Beethoven

6)

Faust, ballet

aka Nuit de Walpurgis

Composer(s): Gounod

7)

Oberon, overture

Composer(s): Weber

8)

Scherzo, orchestra, op. 19

Composer(s): Goldmark

9)

Aquarellen, op. 258

Composer(s): Strauss

10)

Lohengrin, finale

Composer(s): Wagner

11)

Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Die, overture

aka Merry Wives of Windsor

Composer(s): Nicolai

12)

Fantasie on Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera

Composer(s): Unknown composer

13)

Consortien, op. 260

aka Consorten

Composer(s): Strauss

14)

Amazonen-Marsch

aka Amazonian march

Composer(s): Michaelis [comp.-cond.]

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 26 May 1871, 12.

Includes programme; attributes Amazons march to C. Bach, which appears to be in error; Michaelis’s march of the same title was performed twice previously this month.