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:
4 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

31 Aug 1874, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Nachtlager in Granada, Das, overture
Composer(s): Kreutzer
3)
Werber, Die, op. 103
Composer(s): Lanner
4)
"Ellens Gesang," D. 839
aka Ave Maria; Ellens dritter Gesang; Hymne an die Jungfrau; Serenade
Composer(s): Schubert
Text Author: Scott
5)
Faust, ballet
aka Nuit de Walpurgis
Composer(s): Gounod
6)
Guillaume Tell, overture
aka Guglielmo Tell; William Tell; Introduction
Composer(s): Rossini
7)
Trio, piano, strings, op. 97, B-flat major. Andante cantabile (arr. Liszt)
Composer(s): Beethoven
8)
Lohengrin, selections
Composer(s): Wagner
9)
Hunyadi László, overture
aka Hunyadi Laszlo, overture
Composer(s): Erkel
10)
Ballet comique de la royne, "Clochette"
aka Amaryllis
Composer(s): Beaujoyeulx
11)
Bürgersinn, op. 295
aka Burgersinn
Composer(s): Strauss
12)
Amazonen-Marsch
aka Amazonian march
Composer(s): Michaelis [comp.-cond.]

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 31 August 1874, 2.

Includes program.