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:
2 March 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Sep 1873, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Siège de Corinthe, Le, overture
aka Siege of Corinth; Siege of Erwith
Composer(s): Rossini
3)
Wiener Blut, op. 354
aka Viennese blue blood
Composer(s): Strauss
4)
"Ellens Gesang," D. 839
aka Ave Maria; Ellens dritter Gesang; Hymne an die Jungfrau; Serenade
Composer(s): Schubert
Text Author: Scott
5)
Faust, ballet
aka Nuit de Walpurgis
Composer(s): Gounod
6)
Oberon, overture
Composer(s): Weber
7)
Trio, piano, strings, op. 97, B-flat major. Andante cantabile (arr. Liszt)
Composer(s): Beethoven
8)
Lohengrin, Vorspiel
aka Overture to Lohengrin; Introduction to Lohengrin; Prelude to Lohengrin
Composer(s): Wagner
9)
Ring des Nibelungen, Der. Walküre, Die, "Walkürenritt"
aka Ride of the Valkyries; Walkurenritt; Walkure, Die
Composer(s): Wagner
10)
Overtura di ballo
Composer(s): Sullivan
11)
Frühlingslied, voice, piano, unidentified
aka Fruhlingslied; Swiss spring song
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
12)
Arcadian waltz
Composer(s): Aronson
13)
En avant, op. 81
aka Avant
Composer(s): Gung'l

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 20 September 1873, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 September 1873, 2.

Program.