Central Park Garden Concert

Includes program; also included an additional unnamed waltz by an unidentified composer.

“The hot weather caused a large attendance at the Central Park Garden last night, and early in the evening the lower hall and all the seats in the garden and the balconies were occupied. The programme was an excellent one, opening with Beethoven’s ‘Prometheus’ overture, and including a ‘Nordish Suite’ in six movements, by Asger Hamerick. The little symphony opens with a tender pastoral music (in the movement programmed as ‘In the Woods’) which gradually increases in volume, the inevitable horn of the hunter bursting upon the ear from time to time, until it leads to a weird air in a minor key, felicitously embodying the spirit of the old Swedish songs. A Norse fling, a minuet and a bridal march finish the parts. We are pleased to notice that this beautiful work will be played more than once again during the week. It was performed last night with marvelous delicacy and feeling, and was received with demonstrative approbation. The overture to ‘Der Freyschutz,’ a beautiful ‘Adagio Religioso’ of Mendelssohn; Gounod’s highly-colored and realistic ‘Danse des Bacchantes,’ the striking ‘Flying Dutchman’ selections which were so warmly received last week, the ‘Hunyadi Laszlo’ overture, a ‘Souvenir de Maria Therese’ by Neustedt, two Strauss waltzes and a march by Gungl were also on last night’s programme.”