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:
9 May 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

13 Sep 1872, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Anacréon, overture
aka Amour fugitif; Acacreon; Anacreon, overture
Composer(s): Cherubini
3)
Philémon et Baucis, "Entr'acte et danse des Bacchantes"
aka Philemon et Baucis
Composer(s): Gounod
4)
Tausend und eine Nacht, op. 346
aka Thousand and one nights; Arabian nights
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
Lohengrin, selections
Composer(s): Wagner
6)
Egmont, [incidental music]. Overture
aka Egmont overture; Goethe's Egmont
Composer(s): Beethoven
7)
Works, unidentified
Composer(s): Pease
8)
Préludes, Les
aka Preludes, Les
Composer(s): Liszt
9)
Gazza ladra, La, overture
aka Diebische Elster, Die; Thieving magpie
Composer(s): Rossini
10)
Paraphrase über Die Loreley nach Silcher
Composer(s): Nesvadba
11)
Wiener Fresken, op. 249
Composer(s): Strauss
12)
Quick transit
Composer(s): Tully

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 12 September 1872, 2.

Includes program.

2)
Review: Dwight's Journal of Music, 21 September 1872, 311.

New York Sept. 14.—The summer nights’ concerts at the Central Park Garden will soon be ended, but the attendance there still continues undiminished, and the music is as good as ever. From a quantity of programs before me I give a list of pieces performed by Thomas’s Orchestra during the 115 concerts, up to Wednesday, Sept. 4. [list of symphonies, overtures, and miscellaneous pieces]. 

This list is necessarily incomplete, embracing only a part of the season; but it will help your readers to form an idea of the high character of the selections with which Mr. Thomas has favored his auditors.

Mention should be made of a spirited Opening March composed by Theo. Thomas, which was played at one of the concerts, and also of two Galops, (‘Japanese’ and ‘Red Cloud’) by our accomplished and well known pianist, A. H. Pease. So popular have these two pieces proved that they have been played at least a score of times during the season.

These concerts will be continued until Sept. 22, when the garden will close for the season, and Thomas will depart with his Orchestra for a Western tour. He has scrupulously adhered to a high standard in the selections played during the summer, and has undoubtedly done much to elevate the popular taste.”