Thomas Central Park Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

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

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
22 February 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

18 Sep 1873, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Svendsen’s Sigurd Slembe is listed in the program as “new.” The selections from Wagner’s Lohengrin were from the first act only.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Lodoïska, overture
aka Lodoiska
Composer(s): Cherubini
3)
Trio, piano, strings, op. 97, B-flat major. Andante cantabile (arr. Liszt)
Composer(s): Beethoven
4)
Damnation de Faust, La, selections
Composer(s): Berlioz
5)
Sigurd Slembe
aka Sigurd Siembe
Composer(s): Svendsen
6)
Symphony, no. 3, op. 97, E-flat major
aka Rhenish symphony
Composer(s): Schumann
7)
Lohengrin, selections
Composer(s): Wagner
8)
Dorfschwalben aus Oesterreich, op. 164
aka Village swallows; Village swallows from Austria; Die Dorfschwalben
Composer(s): Strauss
9)
Vom Fels zum Meer
aka Victory march; March of victory; From crag to sea
Composer(s): Liszt

Citations

1)
Advertisement: Boston Daily Evening Transcript, 18 September 1873, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 September 1873, 16.
Program. Included “Menuet des Follets” and “Ballet des sylphs” from Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust.