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:
4 July 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 Jun 1875, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Festival overture
Composer(s): Larsen
3)
Werber, Die, op. 103
Composer(s): Lanner
4)
Suite, piano, op. 163, G major. Rhapsodie
aka Evening; Abends
Composer(s): Raff
5)
Rienzi, ballet
Composer(s): Wagner
6)
Sommernachtstraum, Ein, overture
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
7)
Symphony, no. 5, op. 67, C minor. Andante
Composer(s): Beethoven
8)
Nuptiale
Composer(s): Korbay
9)
Rhapsodie hongroise, piano, no. 2
Composer(s): Liszt
10)
Fra Diavolo, overture
Composer(s): Auber
11)
"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
12)
Carnevalsbilder, op. 357
Composer(s): Strauss
13)
Marche Persanne, op. 289
aka Persischer Marsch; Persian march
Composer(s): Strauss

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 23 June 1875, 9.

Includes program.