Central Park Garden Concert

Includes program; Beethoven’s symphony was performed in its entirety.

Letter to the editor from “Mortimer” protesting the tedious, heavy, uninteresting and wearisome programs; suggestion that the heavy music be played during the first part, so that the mass of people could arrive at 9 pm and be entertained.

“A delightful performance of Beethoven’s C minor Symphony was heard on Thursday night by a crowded houseful, and applauded with unusual marks of appreciation. This and the Introduction, Quintet, and Finale, from the 3^rd Act of ‘Meistersinger’ were the most important works on a rich and interesting programme, and both were played with wonderful beauty of expression and splendor of color. A Polonaise from the 2^d Act of Glinka’s ‘Life for the Czar’ gave us a pleasant specimen of the best, though probably not the most national, of Russian composers. Schubert’s charming ‘German Dances,’ including the familiar Sehnsucht Waltz, so often wrongly attributed to Beethoven, were received with delight, as they always are, and a reasonable degree of favor was shown to Schumann’s Overture to ‘Hermann and Dorothea,’ which makes such abundant and elegant use of the Marseillaise. The overture was intended as the introduction to an opera which Moritz Horn proposed to make (but never did) out of Goethe’s poem, and Schumann, who has recorded his great fondness for the poem, is said to have written the overture in five hours.

Mr. Thomas has recently introduced at his concerts a ‘Nautilus Waltz,’ by Mr. Myron A. Cooney of this city. We have not yet heard it, but it has achieved no little vogue already, and is highly praised by good judges, both for its motive and its instrumentation.”