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:
2 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Aug 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Thomas Orchestra

2)

Hungarian march

Composer(s): Schubert

3)

Work, unidentified

Composer(s): Haydn

4)

Aus den Bergen, op. 292

aka From the mountains; Von den Bergen

Composer(s): Strauss

5)

TannhÃ¤user, romanza

Composer(s): Wagner

6)

Sigurd Slembe, introduction

Composer(s): Svendsen

7)

8)

Africaine, L', overture

Composer(s): Meyerbeer

9)

Faust, ballet

aka Nuit de Walpurgis

Composer(s): Gounod

10)

Damnation de Faust, La, selections

Composer(s): Berlioz

11)

PrÃ©ludes, Les

aka Preludes, Les

Composer(s): Liszt

12)

13)

Martha, overture

Composer(s): Flotow

14)

Méditation, B-flat

aka Nouvelle meditation; Meditation, B-flat

Composer(s): Gounod

15)

Freuet euch des Lebens, op. 340

aka Life let us cherish

Composer(s): Strauss

16)

FÃªte militaire

aka Fete militaire

Composer(s): Lange

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 19 August 1874, 2.

Includes program; selections from Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust included “Evocation,” “Menuet des follets,” and “Ballet des sylphs;” the work by Haydn is listed simply as “Overture.”