Central Park Band Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Mall

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
11 March 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

16 Aug 1873, 4:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Central Park Band
2)
Attention
Composer(s): Hursbech
3)
Rienzi, overture
Composer(s): Wagner
4)
Tausend und eine Nacht, op. 346
aka Thousand and one nights; Arabian nights
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
Hurricane polka
Composer(s): Nicholson
6)
INTERMISSION
7)
Euryanthe, overture
Composer(s): Weber
8)
"Ave Maria," (Instrumental version)
aka Méditation sur le 1er Prélude de piano de J. S. Bach; Meditation, prelude, for piano, organ and cello; Meditation on Bach's Prelude No. 1
Composer(s): Gounod
9)
Mireille, selection
Composer(s): Gounod
10)
Maid of Orleans
Composer(s): Cowen
11)
INTERMISSION
12)
Barbe-bleue, selection
Composer(s): Offenbach
13)
Damen-Galopp, op. 110
aka Ladies galop
Composer(s): Parlow
14)
Ein Herz, ein Sinn, op. 323
aka One heart, one soul
Composer(s): Strauss
15)
Charivari potpourri
aka Charivari potpouri; Chiravari pot pourri; Chiravari pot pouri
Composer(s): Hamm
16)
National potpourri
aka National pot pouri; National potpourri; National medley; National airs
Composer(s): Dodworth

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 16 August 1873, 5.

Includes program. 

2)
Review: New York Herald, 17 August 1873, 7.

“The musical programme partook of the olla podidra character character of the audience. Wagner and Strauss, Weber and Offenbach, Gounod and Hamm were brought out arm in arm. The two score musicians that sat in a circle around the leader, with their black stovepipe hats, all of a pattern, seemed like a portion of the Shah’s suite. Some suitable uniform might be designed for them, and their hats should not be allowed to mar the landscape and disfigure the beauty of the scene on the Mall.”