Central Park Band Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Mall

Conductor(s):
Harvey Bradley Dodworth

Price: Free Admission

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
10 December 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Sep 1863, 4:00 PM

Program Details

The concert was performed in three parts.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Central Park Band
2)
Central Park
aka Park march, The; Central Park; Central Park music; Salutory park march; Salutary park march; Concert-Signal March; Proem; Attention; Introductory march
Composer(s): Dodworth
3)
Diamants de la couronne, Les, overture
aka Krondiamanten, Die
Composer(s): Auber
4)
"Zerlina polka [Riding]"
Composer(s): Riding
5)
Attila, selections
Composer(s): Verdi
6)
INTERMISSION
7)
Triumphal march
aka Grand march triumphale
Composer(s): Mollenhauer [viola-vn]
8)
Ruinen von Athen, Die, overture
Composer(s): Beethoven
9)
Robert le diable, selection
aka grand selection
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
10)
Elijah, selections
aka Air and chorus
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
11)
INTERMISSION
12)
Poliuto, march
Composer(s): Donizetti
13)
Waltz, unidentified
Composer(s): Gung'l
14)
"My love is like the red, red rose "
Composer(s): Berg
15)
"War galop, The"
Composer(s): Albert [composer]
16)
National potpourri
aka National pot pouri; National potpourri; National medley; National airs
Composer(s): Dodworth

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 01 September 1863.

2)
Announcement: New York Post, 04 September 1863, 2.

3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 05 September 1863, 3.

4)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 05 September 1863, 8.

5)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 05 September 1863.

6)
Review: New York Herald, 06 September 1863, 3.

“The Park concert yesterday was attended by a greater number of persons than on any occasion before during the season—if we except the Fourth of July. Over thirty thousand pedestrians were on the ground, and the Drive was literally alive with vehicles and equestrians. The Terrace Bridge has become on Saturday afternoons an American ‘Rotten Row,’ where the occupants of vehicles and equestrians pass each other, exchange their smiles and bows, and where the admired and the admirers are to be seen in all their glory. Among the equestrians yesterday we noticed something that we had deemed fabulous, a ‘horse marine’—that is, we observed a stylish looking marine officer on horseback, cantering along the drive. Doubtless he thought himself one of the admired, and perhaps he was.

            The concert passed off with its usually good effect, and several of the pieces were very excellent in both their composition and performance. The Music Temple is now nearly complete, and is certainly a masterpiece of both art and workmanship.”