Thomas Central Park Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

Proprietor / Lessee:
John Koch

Conductor(s):
Theodore Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]

Price: $.50; $1 extra, private box

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 January 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

27 Aug 1872, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Euryanthe, overture
Composer(s): Weber
3)
Kamarinskaya
aka Komarin Kain
Composer(s): Glinka
4)
Flugschriften, op. 300
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
Guillaume Tell, selections
aka potpourri; William Tell potpourri
Composer(s): Rossini
6)
Manfred, overture
Composer(s): Schumann
7)
Symphony, no. 2, op. 36, D major. Larghetto
Composer(s): Beethoven
8)
Symphony, no. 4, op. 90, A major. Presto
aka Italian symphony; Saltarello
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
9)
Huldigungs-Marsch
Composer(s): Wagner
10)
Gustave III; ou, Le bal masqué, overture
aka Bal masqué
Composer(s): Auber
11)
Paraphrase über Die Loreley nach Silcher
Composer(s): Nesvadba
12)
Telegramme, op. 318
Composer(s): Strauss
13)
Coronation march
Composer(s): Fahrbach

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 27 August 1872, 2.

Includes program.

2)
Review: New York Herald, 28 August 1872, 7.

“As the summer season wanes the concert programmes at Central Park Garden become more interesting and redolent with novelties.”