Thomas Central Park Garden Concert

Includes program.

“His [Thomas’s] magnificent orchestra grows more and more delicate, sympathetic, and homogeneous every month, and even amid the clatter of spoons and glasses, the tramp of promenaders, and the shuffling of feet on the gravel, it has played this Summer with a refinement far beyond the experience of any other American audience than that which frequents the Central Park Garden. How much we owe Mr. Thomas for his long labors in advancing his beautiful art, and elevating and directing the public taste, our people are beginning at last to understand. He has never sacrificed his noble ambition for the sake of the applause or the money of the vulgar, and for a wonder he is getting his reward in the appreciation and respect of all classes.”