Central Park Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

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

Price: $.50; $1-2, private box

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 May 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Marche héroïque, op. 34
aka Marche heroique ; Heroic march
Composer(s): Saint-Saëns
3)
Zauberflöte, Die, overture
aka The Magic Flute; Zauberflote, Die
Composer(s): Mozart
4)
Dorfschwalben aus Oesterreich, op. 164
aka Village swallows; Village swallows from Austria; Die Dorfschwalben
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
Euryanthe, selections
Composer(s): Weber
6)
Tannhäuser, overture
aka Tannhauser overture
Composer(s): Wagner
7)
Trio, piano, strings, op. 97, B-flat major. Andante cantabile (arr. Liszt)
Composer(s): Beethoven
8)
Damnation de Faust, La, selections
Composer(s): Berlioz
9)
Mireille, overture
Composer(s): Gounod
10)
Souvenir de Maria Thérèse
aka Souvenir de Maria Therese
Composer(s): Neustedt
11)
Bei uns z’Haus
aka At home
Composer(s): Strauss
12)
Fête militaire
aka Fete militaire
Composer(s): Lange

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 29 May 1874, 9.

Includes program. 

2)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 30 May 1874, 6.

“Last night the programme contained one of the finest of all overtures—that to the ‘Magic Flute’—besides the overtures to Tannhäuser and to Gounod’s ‘Mireille,’ this last being one of the recent additions to the repertory of the band. Another novelty was a Gavotte by Neustedt, entitled ‘Souvenir de Marie Thérèse,’ a light and pretty thing, which has acquired this season a marked popularity. Of the other pieces on the bill the most serious were the selections from the ‘Damnation de Faust’ of Berlioz, namely, the ‘Evocation, Menuet des Follets, et Ballet des Sylphes’—the latter certainly one of the most beautiful and delicate of this extraordinary composer’s inspirations—and the Hungarian March, better known perhaps through Liszt’s treatment of the same national theme.”