Central Park Band Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Mall

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 May 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

01 Jun 1872, 3:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Central Park Band
2)
Central Park
aka Park march, The; Central Park; Central Park music; Salutory park march; Salutary park march; Concert-Signal March; Proem; Attention; Introductory march
Composer(s): Dodworth
3)
Fest Ouvertüre
Composer(s): Leutner
4)
Dorfschwalben aus Oesterreich, op. 164
aka Village swallows; Village swallows from Austria; Die Dorfschwalben
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
"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
6)
INTERMISSION
7)
When o'er the mead
Composer(s): Dodworth
8)
Operas, selections
Composer(s): Balfe
9)
Arm in arm, op. 215
Composer(s): Strauss
10)
Whirlwind polka
Composer(s): Levy
11)
INTERMISSION
12)
Erin
Composer(s): Basquit
13)
Caroline
Composer(s): Christrup
14)
"Himmel im Thale, Der"
aka Heaven in the valley
Composer(s): Diette
15)
Belle Hélène, La, march
Composer(s): Offenbach
16)
Union, The
aka Union: north, south, east, and west
Composer(s): Dodworth

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 31 May 1872, 8.

Includes programme.

2)
Announcement: New York Post, 31 May 1872, 2.

Includes programme.

3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 01 June 1872, 3.

Includes programme.

4)
Review: New York Herald, 02 June 1872, 9.

“The bright sunshine yesterday tempted out an unusually large number of pleasure-seekers to the Park, and they doubtless found abundant means of enjoyment. The Mall, broad as it is, was so crowded that it failed to serve the peripatetic needs of the people who thronged along it to the band stand, and the turf on either side—thrown open on Saturdays only for the convenience of the public—was dotted with beautiful women, in handsome dresses, attended by well-dressed cavaliers. The music was more than ordinarily good, and Dodworth’s band rendered the following programme with singularly effective skill [see above].”