Event Information

Venue(s):
Gilmore's Concert Garden

Manager / Director:
Patrick S. Gilmore

Conductor(s):
Patrick S. Gilmore

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

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
7 July 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Jul 1875, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
Composer(s): Weber
3)
aka Farewell to the Forest, parting song
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
4)
aka Invitation à la valse
Composer(s): Weber
5)
aka Last greeting; Adieu! 'Tis love's last greeting
Composer(s): Weyrauch
Participants:  Matthew Arbuckle
6)
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
7)
aka Non e ver; Tis not true
Composer(s): Mattei
Participants:  Adolph Sohst
8)
aka Ave Maria; Ellens dritter Gesang; Hymne an die Jungfrau; Serenade
Composer(s): Schubert
Text Author: Scott
Participants:  Jules [cornet] Levy
9)
aka Tannhauser overture
Composer(s): Wagner
10)
aka Morgenblatter; Melodische Depeschen; Morning flowers
Composer(s): Strauss
11)
aka March; Fest march; Festmarsch; Grand march; Tannhauser. Freudig begrussen wir die edle Halle. Allegro
Composer(s): Wagner
12)
aka Star spangled banned
Composer(s): Smith
Text Author: Key

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 15 July 1875, 1.

Includes program. 

2)
Review: New York Herald, 16 July 1875, 5.

“The programmes at this summer resort, which becomes more and more attractive and popular each week, are increasing in musical interest. Mr. Gilmore, having the best materials that his country can furnish in military band music, is evidently determined to avail himself to the utmost extent of his opportunities. Last night the garden, more lovely than ever with its increased wealth of foliage and flowers, was crowded to its fullest extent, and Levy, Sohst and Arbuckle, the soloists, received double encores. Levy played Schubert’s ‘Ave Maria’ with such exquisite finish and expression that he was recalled twice. Sohst sang ‘Non e Ver’ with warmth and passion. The best efforts of the unrivalled band, over one hundred strong, were directed toward the ‘Tannhäuser’ overture, the grandest that Wagner ever wrote; the ‘Oberon’ overture, the chef d’oeuvre of Weber, and the magnificent potpourri of Meyerbeer’s operas.”