Gilmore’s Concert Garden

Event Information

Venue(s):
Gilmore's Concert Garden

Manager / Director:
Patrick S. Gilmore
A. M. Palmer

Conductor(s):
Patrick S. Gilmore

Price: $.50; $1 extra, private box

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
28 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Jun 1875, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Gilmore's Band; Matthew Arbuckle

2)

Athalie, "Kriegsmarsch der Priester"

aka Athalia; Athalie. War march; Athalie. Presto march

Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

3)

aka Flower song

Composer(s): Lange

4)

Oberon, selection

Composer(s): Weber

5)

6)

Poliuto, overture

Composer(s): Donizetti

7)

Polonaise sur le thÃªme favorit de Himmel: An Alexis send' ich dich

aka Air variÃ© ; Air varie; Air and variations on Alexis

Composer(s): Hartmann

Participants: Matthew Arbuckle

8)

Sorgenbrecher, op. 230

Composer(s): Strauss

9)

Concert air and variations

Composer(s): Rivere

10)

11)

Mozart-Geige, Die, oder, Der Dorfmusikant und sein Kind, overture

aka Mozart overture

Composer(s): SuppÃ©

12)

Lohengrin, selection

Composer(s): Wagner

13)

Southern life galop

aka Plantation galop

Composer(s): Cassidy [composer]

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New-York Times, 02 June 1875, 11.

The garden to be open to the public every afternoon between 2 and 6 pm, beginning Thursday; no music to be offered; $.25 admission.

2)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 03 June 1875, 9.

Includes program.

3)

Review: New York Post, 04 June 1875, 2.

“Gilmore’s Concert Garden is meeting with great success, and is crowded every night by audiences who thoroughly appreciate the music interpreted by the band of one hundred performers.”