Thomas Central Park Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

Conductor(s):
Theodore Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]

Price: $.50; $4 for twelve-ticket package; $2 extra private boxes

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 December 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

06 Sep 1873, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Rienzi, overture
Composer(s): Wagner
3)
Aus den Bergen, op. 292
aka From the mountains; Von den Bergen
Composer(s): Strauss
4)
Nordische Suite, no. 1, op. 22
Composer(s): Hamerik
5)
Sommernachtstraum, Ein, selections
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
6)
Huguenots, Les, ballet
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
7)
Drømmebilleder
aka Drommebilleder; Dromme Billeder ; Traumbilder ; Visions in a Dream; Pictures of dreams; Frambileter; Fraumbileter; Cloud pictures; Dissolving views; Nebelbilder
Composer(s): Lumbye
8)
Arcadien
Composer(s): Illegible composer
9)
Marche Persanne, op. 289
aka Persischer Marsch; Persian march
Composer(s): Strauss

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 06 September 1873, 2.

Program. Lists movements performed from Mendelssohn’s Sommernachtstraum.

2)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 08 September 1873, 5.

Mr. Theodore Thomas produced on Saturday evening (we believe for the second time) a ‘Nordish Suite’ by Asger Hamerik. Mr. Hamerik is a Baltimore musician of Danish birth, and a professor in the Peabody Institute. His composition is charmingly conceived and well constructed, and seems destined to secure a great deal of popular favor. It comprises five short movements, denominated respectively: 1. In the Woods; 2. Old Swedish Ballad; 3. Norse Fling; 4. Minuet; 5. Bridal March. They are strongly colored with national characteristics, the melodies being clear, vigorous, and at times even a little rugged, while the instrumentation is refined and simple. The programme on Saturday also included the ‘Rienzi’ overture and the ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ music,—both most exquisitely performed. Certainly Mendelssohn’s delightful fancies have never before been so faithfully and sympathetically interpreted in this city.

The audience was very large and in general attentive; though Mr. Thomas has not yet taught everybody good manners. He was obliged again to interrupt the performance for the purpose of rebuking some loud talkers in the front seats.”

3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 06 October 1873, 7.