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:
17 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 Jun 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Overture, op. 115, C major
aka Namensfeier
Composer(s): Beethoven
3)
Wohltemperierte Klavier, selection [arr. Abert]
aka Prelude and fugue
Composer(s): Bach
4)
Choral
Composer(s): Abert
5)
Work, organ, selection [arr. Abert]
aka Prelude and fugue
Composer(s): Bach
6)
Tannhäuser, "Venusberg"
aka Baccanale; Bachanale; Bacchanale
Composer(s): Wagner
7)
Sommernachtstraum, Ein, selections
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
8)
Mireille, overture
Composer(s): Gounod
9)
Freischütz, Der, "Leise, leise, fromme Weise [arr. by Lux]"
aka Freischutz, Der, Leise, leise, fromme Weise [arr. by Lux]
Composer(s): Weber
10)
Wiener Bonbons, op. 307
Composer(s): Strauss
11)
Japanese galop
Composer(s): Pease

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 24 June 1874, 12.

Includes program.