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:
6 July 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Jul 1875, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Jubel-Ouvertüre
aka Jubel overture; Jubilee; Feste
Composer(s): Weber
3)
Liebesträume, Brünner Walzer, op. 150
aka Liebes-Träume; Liebes Träume; Brünner Walzer; Dreams of Love
Composer(s): Lanner
4)
Muette de Portici, La, selections
aka potpourri; Masaniello; Stummin; Stumme von Portici
Composer(s): Auber
5)
Ungarische Suite, op. 16
aka Hungarian suite
Composer(s): Hofmann
6)
Sommernachtstraum, Ein, selections
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
7)
Rienzi, ballet
Composer(s): Wagner
8)
"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
9)
Königslieder, op. 334
aka Konigslieder
Composer(s): Strauss
10)
Overture, unidentified
Composer(s): Flotow

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 05 July 1875, 7.

Includes program. 

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 05 July 1875, 2.

Includes program. 

3)
Review: New York Herald, 06 July 1875, 6.

“This elegant retreat of the uptown people of fashion was crowded last night. An admirably selected programme made the evening hours pass so swiftly away that when the last note of the overture from Flotow had died away it was difficult to recognize that the programme for the evening was over. The programme included selections from ‘Masaniello,’ ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ ‘Rienzi,’ &c., which were rendered with the wonderful precision and breadth of effect for which Thomas’ orchestra has become famous.”