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:
3 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Aug 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Siège de Corinthe, Le, overture
aka Siege of Corinth; Siege of Erwith
Composer(s): Rossini
3)
Sphären-Klänge, op. 235
aka Spharen-Klange; Spharen Klange
Composer(s): Strauss
4)
Aus der Musik zu Shakespeare’s Kaufmann von Venedig, "In Portia's park"
Composer(s): Mühldorfer
5)
Rienzi, ballet
Composer(s): Wagner
6)
Wohltemperierte Klavier, selection [arr. Abert]
aka Prelude and fugue
Composer(s): Bach
7)
Choral
Composer(s): Abert
8)
Work, organ, selection [arr. Abert]
aka Prelude and fugue
Composer(s): Bach
9)
Romance, violin, orchestra, op. 40, G major
Composer(s): Beethoven
10)
Traumbild, Ein
aka Vision, A
Composer(s): Stiehl
11)
Orpheus
Composer(s): Liszt
12)
Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Die, overture
aka Merry Wives of Windsor
Composer(s): Nicolai
13)
"Ave Maria," (Instrumental version)
aka Méditation sur le 1er Prélude de piano de J. S. Bach; Meditation, prelude, for piano, organ and cello; Meditation on Bach's Prelude No. 1
Composer(s): Gounod
14)
Wiener Fresken, op. 249
Composer(s): Strauss
15)
Au bivouac
Composer(s): Lange

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 25 August 1874, 2.

Includes program.