Central Park Band Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Mall

Conductor(s):
Claudio Solomon Grafulla

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
21 October 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 May 1871, 6:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Central Park Band
2)
Festmarsch
aka Schiller fest march
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
3)
Jessonda, overture
Composer(s): Spohr
4)
Sonata, op. 69. Andante
Composer(s): Volkmann
5)
Sweet sixteen
Composer(s): Wiegand
6)
INTERMISSION
7)
Bohemian girl, The, selection
Composer(s): Balfe
8)
"Ave Maria," (Instrumental version)
aka Méditation sur le 1er Prélude de piano de J. S. Bach; Meditation, prelude, for piano, organ and cello; Meditation on Bach's Prelude No. 1
Composer(s): Gounod
9)
Wie der Wind, op. 191
aka As the wind; Like the wind
Composer(s): Faust
10)
Polonaise brillante
Composer(s): Golde
11)
INTERMISSION
12)
Semiramide, overture
Composer(s): Rossini
13)
Liebesträume
aka Liebestraume
Composer(s): Strauss
14)
Sommernachtstraum, Ein, selection
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
15)
Attaque
Composer(s): Hamm
16)
Medley of popular airs
aka Bouquet of melodies

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 16 May 1871, 7.
2)
Announcement: New York Post, 26 May 1871, 4.

Includes program.

3)
Article: New-York Times, 28 May 1871, 8.

No mention of music.