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:
4 August 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 May 1872, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

Sommernachtstraum, Ein, "Hochzeitsmarsch"

aka Midsummer night's dream, A; wedding march

Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

2)

Freischütz, Der, overture

aka Freischutz overture

Composer(s): Weber

3)

Tausend und eine Nacht, op. 346

aka Thousand and one nights; Arabian nights

Composer(s): Strauss

4)

Lohengrin, act 3, Einleitung

Composer(s): Wagner

5)

Maximilian Robespierre

Composer(s): Litolff

6)

Serenade, flute, horn obbligato

aka Romanza

Composer(s): Titl

Participants: Henry Schmitz [French horn]; Eugene [flautist] Weiner

7)

Wein, Weib, und Gesang, op. 333

aka Wine, women, and song; Wine women and song

Composer(s): Strauss

8)

Guillaume Tell, selections

aka potpourri; William Tell potpourri

Composer(s): Rossini

9)

Dichter und Bauer, overture

aka Poet and peasant overture

Composer(s): Suppé

10)

Drømmebilleder

aka Drommebilleder; Dromme Billeder ; Traumbilder ; Visions in a Dream; Pictures of dreams; Frambileter; Fraumbileter; Cloud pictures; Dissolving views; Nebelbilder

Composer(s): Lumbye

11)

aka Graceuse

Composer(s): Haas

12)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Thomas Orchestra; Henry Schmitz [French horn]; Eugene [flautist] Weiner

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 May 1872, 9.

Includes programme.