Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
08 Aug 1872, 8:00 PM
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
aka Porteur d’eau, Le;
Wasserträger, Der;
Water carrier, The
Composer(s): Cherubini
2)
aka Chorus of the peace envoys
Composer(s): Wagner
3)
aka Weihe der Töne, Die;
Consecration of the sounds
Composer(s): Spohr
4)
aka Heroide funebre;
Heldenklage
Composer(s): Liszt
5)
Composer(s): Beethoven
6)
aka Freischutz overture
Composer(s): Weber
7)
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)
aka Alla turca;
Türkischer Marsch;
Turkish March;
Allegretto in A minor
Composer(s): Mozart
Citations
1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 08 August 1872, 2.
2)
Review: New York Post, 09 August 1872, 2.
“Theodore Thomas’s summer night concerts continue to attract large crowds. The management deserve the pecuniary success which attends them, for the music and accommodations are of the highest order, and there is no more delightful place to spend a few hours on these hot nights than at the Central Park Garden.”