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:
20 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

13 Jul 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Gustave III; ou, Le bal masqué, overture
aka Bal masqué
Composer(s): Auber
3)
Flugschriften, op. 300
Composer(s): Strauss
4)
Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Die, selections
aka Geschopfe des Prometheus, Die, selections
Composer(s): Beethoven
5)
Gaudeamus igitur
Composer(s): Liszt
6)
Loreley, Die, Einleitung
Composer(s): Bruch
7)
Aus der Musik zu Shakespeare’s Kaufmann von Venedig, entr'actes
Composer(s): Mühldorfer
8)
Rienzi, ballet
Composer(s): Wagner
9)
Hunyadi László, overture
aka Hunyadi Laszlo, overture
Composer(s): Erkel
10)
Méditation, B-flat
aka Nouvelle meditation; Meditation, B-flat
Composer(s): Gounod
11)
Nautilus waltz
Composer(s): Cooney
12)
March, unidentified
Composer(s): Strauss

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 13 July 1874, 2.

Includes program. 

2)
Review: New York Herald, 14 July 1874, 7.

“The concerts of Theodore Thomas at this popular summer resort grow in interest every week. The following programme [see above] was given last evening before an immense audience, and many of the works were enthusiastically encored…Mr. Thomas promises many novelties of a very interesting nature for the coming two weeks, as he has lately received some manuscript works from Germany.”