Central Park Band Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Tompkins Square

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
5 March 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

22 Jul 1873, 5:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Central Park Band
2)
Central Park
aka Park march, The; Central Park; Central Park music; Salutory park march; Salutary park march; Concert-Signal March; Proem; Attention; Introductory march
Composer(s): Dodworth
3)
Zanetta; ou, Jouer avec le feu, overture
Composer(s): Auber
4)
Schwanengesang, "Am Meer"
Composer(s): Schubert
5)
Tausend und eine Nacht, op. 346
aka Thousand and one nights; Arabian nights
Composer(s): Strauss
6)
INTERMISSION
7)
Deutscher Krieger-Marsch, op. 284
aka Warrior
Composer(s): Strauss
8)
Charivari potpourri
aka Charivari potpouri; Chiravari pot pourri; Chiravari pot pouri
Composer(s): Hamm
9)
Sogno, Il
aka Happy dream, A
Composer(s): Abt
10)
German songs
Composer(s): Dodworth
11)
INTERMISSION
12)
Mazourka brillante
Composer(s): Zikoff
13)
Ballet comique de la royne, "Clochette"
aka Amaryllis
Composer(s): Beaujoyeulx
14)
Brüder lustig
aka Jolly brothers; Bruder lustig
Composer(s): Budik
15)
Froh und heiter, op. 81
aka Gay and merry
Composer(s): Faust
16)
National potpourri
aka National pot pouri; National potpourri; National medley; National airs
Composer(s): Dodworth

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 20 July 1873, 7.

Includes program. 

2)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 21 July 1873, 8.

Includes program. 

3)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 23 July 1873, 8.

“Tompkins Square was filled last evening with a mixed assemblage of idlers, music-lovers and small boys, who were diverted for two hours by the playing of the Central Park Band. The tactics employed by Park Commissioners in giving summer-night concerts at regular periods in the various parks and squares proved so successful last year that they will be repeated this season.”