Thomas Central Park Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

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

Price: $.75

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
11 January 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

11 Sep 1873, 8:00 PM

Program Details

“Grand Extra Concert.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Hungarian march
Composer(s): Schubert
3)
Danses allemandes, op. 24
Composer(s): Bargiel
4)
Quintet, clarinets, strings, K. 581, A major. Larghetto
Composer(s): Mozart
5)
Fidelio, (1814), overture
aka Leonore overture, no. 4; Fidelio overture; Fidelio overture, no. 4; Fidelio overture, E major
Composer(s): Beethoven
6)
Serenade in four canons, op. 42
Composer(s): Jadassohn
7)
Faust-Symphonie, Eine, "Gretchen"
Composer(s): Liszt
8)
Ring des Nibelungen, Der. Walküre, Die, "Walkürenritt"
aka Ride of the Valkyries; Walkurenritt; Walkure, Die
Composer(s): Wagner
9)
Dame Kobold, overture
Composer(s): Raff
10)
Pizzicato polka
Composer(s): Strauss
11)
Wiener Blut, op. 354
aka Viennese blue blood
Composer(s): Strauss
12)
En avant, op. 81
aka Avant
Composer(s): Gung'l

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 September 1873, 7.

“Package tickets not admitted on Thursday evenings.”

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 11 September 1873, 15.

Program.

3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 11 September 1873, 12.

“The Central Park Garden Concerts will not last much longer. One of the last classical concerts will be given there this evening.”