Central Park Garden Concert

Includes program. 

“A superb programme was performed at the Central Park Garden Concert last night, the selections being from Spohr, Weber, Liszt, Raff, Brahms, Wagner and Schubert. A new feature was comprised in two movements by Muehldorfer, of music suggested by two scenes in Shakespeare’s ‘Merchant of Venice.’ The work is most creditably written, the orchestral effects being very brilliant, showing a deep sympathy with the Wagnerian school. The ‘Nautilus Waltz’ by Mr. Cooney proved to be a taking and dashing affair in the Strauss style, and was received with decided favor.

The great feature of last evening’s concert was, however, the superb performance of Wagner’s magnificent Introduction and Finale to ‘Tristan and Isolde.’”

“When the attendance at the Central Park Garden is so large as to test, almost nightly, the capacity of the place as an auditorium and a promenade, it seems idle to commend the attractiveness of Mr. Thomas' concerts to the reader. Yet it can do no harm to note that they occur nightly, and that no entertainment better suited to the season could be devised. Among recent novelties on the programme is ‘Nautilus Waltz,’ consisting of an exquisitely-scored introduction and a spirited mouvement de valse, the whole being the work of Mr. Myron A. Cooney. Mr. Cooney’s composition was played for the first time Thursday, and was heartily applauded.”