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:
21 May 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Jul 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Preciosa, overture
Composer(s): Weber
3)
Hesperusbahnen, op. 279
Composer(s): Strauss
4)
Stabat Mater, "Cujus animam"
Composer(s): Rossini
5)
Robert le diable, ballet music
aka Scene de ballet; Scène de ballet
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
6)
Tannhäuser, overture
aka Tannhauser overture
Composer(s): Wagner
7)
Romance, violin, orchestra, op. 40, G major
Composer(s): Beethoven
8)
Deutsche Tänze, unidentified (arr. Herbeck)
aka Deutsche Tanze
Composer(s): Schubert
9)
Roi d’Yvetot, Le, overture
aka König von Yvetot, Der
Composer(s): Adam
10)
Morceaux de salon, op. 22. Rêverie
Composer(s): Vieuxtemps
11)
Rudolfs-Klänge, op. 283
Composer(s): Strauss
12)
Siegesmarsch
aka Victory; March of victory; Friedrich Carl Siegesmarsch; Grand triumph
Composer(s): Bilse

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 20 June 1874, 2.

Includes program. 

2)
Review: New York Herald, 21 July 1874, 7.

“Although the rain last evening interfered with the attendance at this popular summer garden yet the performance was one of surpassing interest, being a judicious mixture of various styles of music. There was [see above for program]. The performance was of the standard of excellence one would expect from such a peerless band.”