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)

27 May 1871, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Polonaise
Composer(s): Bilse
3)
Muette de Portici, La, overture
aka Masaniello; Mute Girl of Portici; Stumme von Portici
Composer(s): Auber
4)
Am schönen Rhein, op. 83
aka Am schonen Rhein; On the beautiful Rhine
Composer(s): Kéler
5)
Guillaume Tell, selections
aka potpourri; William Tell potpourri
Composer(s): Rossini
6)
Tannhäuser, overture
aka Tannhauser overture
Composer(s): Wagner
7)
Rosamunde, entre-acts, selections
Composer(s): Schubert
8)
Wiener Fresken, op. 249
Composer(s): Strauss
9)
Sommernachtstraum, Ein, selections
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
10)
Martha, overture
Composer(s): Flotow
11)
Rigoletto, "Bella figlia dell'amore"
aka Rigoletto, quartet
Composer(s): Verdi
12)
Freuet euch des Lebens, op. 340
aka Life let us cherish
Composer(s): Strauss
13)
En avant, op. 81
aka Avant
Composer(s): Gung'l

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 27 May 1871, 11.

Includes program.

2)
Review: New York Herald, 28 May 1871, 14.

“Thomas’ Central Park Garden concerts.—Every performance given by the unequalled orchestra of this young and talented conductor increases their popularity, and now the best people in New York may be seen there every evening. The programmes are generally of a very high standard, and yet so skillfully selected as to appeal alike to the dilettanti and the profanum vulgus. Years of long practice and extensive experience have inspired these forty musicians with but one mind, and that is in perfect accord with their leader and the score placed before them. What Pasdeloup was to Paris, Mellon to London and Strauss to Germany, Theodore Thomas is to New York.”