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:
13 May 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

06 Jun 1872, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Zauberflöte, Die, overture
aka The Magic Flute; Zauberflote, Die
Composer(s): Mozart
3)
Aquarellen, op. 258
Composer(s): Strauss
4)
Stabat Mater, "Cujus animam"
Composer(s): Rossini
5)
König Manfred, ballet
aka Konig Manfred, ballet
Composer(s): Reinecke
6)
Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Die, Vorspiel
aka Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Die. Prelude; Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Die; Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Die. Overture; Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Die. Introduction
Composer(s): Wagner
7)
Fest-Ouverture, op. 15
Composer(s): Damrosch
8)
Symphony, no. 4, op. 60, B-flat major. Selections
Composer(s): Beethoven
9)
Préludes, Les
aka Preludes, Les
Composer(s): Liszt
10)
Fra Diavolo, overture
Composer(s): Auber
11)
"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
12)
Publicisten, Die, op. 321
Composer(s): Strauss
13)
Campaign
Composer(s): Schreiber

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 06 June 1872, 2.

Includes programme.

2)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 08 June 1872, 5.

“The audience at the Central Park Garden on Thursday was quite too large for comfort, but the visitors generally stayed til the end of the performance. If the establishment could be enlarged to twice its present dimensions, we have no doubt it would be filled. The novelty on Mr. Thomas’s programme on Thursday was a ‘Festival Overture,’ by Dr. Leopold Damrosch, a work of marked character and scholarship in the modern school, to which the orchestra gave a splendid interpretation. Of the other pieces an arrangement of the Bach-Gounod ‘Ave Maria,’ with violins, basses, harps, and reeds, seemed to be the most popular. The overtures to [see above] were also played, with some lighter pieces. The performance of ‘Les Preludes’ was superb.”