Thomas Central Park Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

Proprietor / Lessee:
John Koch

Conductor(s):
Theodore Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]

Price: $.50; $1 & $2 extra, private boxes

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
26 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

28 May 1875, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Marche héroïque, op. 34
aka Marche heroique ; Heroic march
Composer(s): Saint-Saëns
3)
Abenteuer Händels, Ein, overture
aka Macht des Liedes, Die; Adventure of Handel's; Episode in the life of Handel
Composer(s): Reinecke
4)
Ein Herz, ein Sinn, op. 323
aka One heart, one soul
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
Unter Donner und Blitz, op. 324
aka Thunder and lightning
Composer(s): Strauss
6)
Lohengrin, selections
Composer(s): Wagner
7)
Des Teufels Lustschloss, selection
Composer(s): Schubert
8)
Trio, piano, strings, op. 97, B-flat major. Andante cantabile (arr. Liszt)
Composer(s): Beethoven
9)
Scherzo, orchestra, op. 19
Composer(s): Goldmark
10)
Rhapsodie hongroise, piano, no. 1
Composer(s): Liszt
11)
Du und du, op. 367
Composer(s): Strauss
12)
Prophète, Le, ballet
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
13)
Jubel-Ouvertüre
aka Jubel overture; Jubilee; Feste
Composer(s): Weber

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 28 May 1875, 9.

Includes program. 

2)
Review: New York Herald, 29 May 1875, 3.

“Three men claim our attention in music for the summer. They promise everything that music can furnish and they are well known to the public. One is Theodore Thomas, who has been pegging away at orchestral music of the most intense classical kind for years and who has succeeded in organizing and training to the highest degree of perfection an orchestra such as has no equal in America and few rivals in Europe. He has opened this season at Central Park Garden with greater éclat than ever, and his contests have been numerously attended. The répertoire abounds in novelties and fresh composers have been brought forward.” [Review continues with a discussion of P. S. Gilmore’s series at Barnum’s former Hippodrome and Downing’s series at Jones’s Wood Colosseum].