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:
15 February 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

16 Sep 1873, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Reine de Saba, La, Marche et cortège
aka March and Cortege; Grand march
Composer(s): Gounod
3)
Abencérages, Les, overture
aka Abencerages, Les ; Étendard de Grenade, L'; Etendard de Grenade
Composer(s): Cherubini
4)
Telegramme, op. 318
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
Fliegende Holländer, Der, selections
aka Fliegende Hollander, Der, selections
Composer(s): Wagner
6)
Fidelio, (1806), overture
aka Leonore overture, no. 3; Leonora overture, no. 3
Composer(s): Beethoven
7)
Serenade, orchestra, no. 1, op. 11, D major. Adagio
Composer(s): Brahms
8)
Damnation de Faust, La, selections
Composer(s): Berlioz
9)
Rhapsodie hongroise, piano, no. 2 (arr. Müller-Berghaus)
Composer(s): Liszt
10)
Struensee, polonaise
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
11)
Morceaux de salon, op. 22. Rêverie
Composer(s): Vieuxtemps
12)
Wiener Blut, op. 354
aka Viennese blue blood
Composer(s): Strauss
13)
Japanese galop
Composer(s): Pease

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 16 September 1873, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 16 September 1873, 4.

Program. Included “Menuet des Follets” and “Ballet des sylphs” from Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust.