Central Park Garden Concert: Wagner Night

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:
2 September 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Sep 1871, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Thomas Orchestra

2)

Rienzi, overture

Composer(s): Wagner

3)

Rienzi, "Friedensboten Chor"

aka Chorus of the peace envoys

Composer(s): Wagner

4)

Aufforderung zum Tanze, [arranged by Berlioz]

aka Invitation to the dance; Invitation a la valse

Composer(s): Weber

5)

Fliegende Holländer, Der, overture

aka Flying Dutchman overture

Composer(s): Wagner

6)

Fliegende Holländer, Der, "Steuermann, lass’ die Wacht! "

aka Norwegian sailors' chorus; Chor der norwegischen Matrosen

Composer(s): Wagner

7)

Huldigungs-Marsch

Composer(s): Wagner

8)

Faust-Ouvertüre, Eine, op. 59

Composer(s): Wagner

9)

Symphony, no. 9, op. 125, D minor. Adagio molto e cantabile

Composer(s): Beethoven

10)

Kaiser-Marsch

Composer(s): Wagner

11)

Tannhäuser, overture

aka Tannhauser overture

Composer(s): Wagner

12)

Lohengrin, Vorspiel

aka Overture to Lohengrin; Introduction to Lohengrin; Prelude to Lohengrin

Composer(s): Wagner

13)

Lohengrin, act 3, Einleitung

Composer(s): Wagner

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 19 September 1871, 8.

Includes program.

2)

Announcement: New-York Times, 20 September 1871, 4.

“If Mr. Thomas’ orchestra made this City their abiding place there would be no occasion to read with envy the accounts of instrumental recitals in Paris and London. A more complete and skilled force of musicians has never been assembled under a more ambitious and industrious chief.”