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:
14 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

06 Jun 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Zampa, overture
aka Introduction
Composer(s): Hérold
3)
Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Die, overture
aka Creatures of Prometheus; Geschopfe des Prometheus; Prometheus overture
Composer(s): Beethoven
4)
An der schönen, blauen Donau, op. 314
aka Blue Danube
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
Euryanthe, selections
Composer(s): Weber
6)
Guillaume Tell, overture
aka Guglielmo Tell; William Tell; Introduction
Composer(s): Rossini
7)
Lobgesang, Adagio religioso
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
8)
Traumbild, Ein
aka Vision, A
Composer(s): Stiehl
9)
Fliegende Holländer, Der, selections
aka Fliegende Hollander, Der, selections
Composer(s): Wagner
10)
Alessandro Stradella, overture
Composer(s): Flotow
11)
Méditation, B-flat
aka Nouvelle meditation; Meditation, B-flat
Composer(s): Gounod
12)
Neu Wien, op. 342
Composer(s): Strauss
13)
Prophète, Le, "Marche du sacre"
aka Prophete. Coronation march; Grand processional march; Krönungsmarsch; Crowning march
Composer(s): Meyerbeer

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 June 1874, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 06 June 1874, 11.

Includes program. 

3)
Review: New-York Times, 07 June 1874, 7.

“Such weather as we can at present reasonably expect is likely to prove most welcome to the frequenters of the Central Park Garden concerts. Now that summer has fairly set in, it is to be expected that Mr. Thomas’ performances will be enjoyed by crowds nightly. Nowhere can a more seasonable or agreeable entertainment be found. On some grounds, amusement-seekers may envy Paris, London, or Vienna, but if the best of music, interpreted in the most finished manner possible, and in a delightful summer local is to be coveted, Parisians, Londoner, and Viennese have good cause to cast longing glances hitherward, between July and October.”