Thomas Central Park Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

Conductor(s):
Theodore Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]

Price: $.50; $1 & $2 extra, private boxes

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
10 July 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

26 Jul 1875, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Fest-Ouvertüre
Composer(s): Lassen
3)
Am schönen Rhein, op. 83
aka Am schonen Rhein; On the beautiful Rhine
Composer(s): Kéler
4)
Nordische Suite, no. 1, op. 22
Composer(s): Hamerik
5)
Guillaume Tell, overture
aka Guglielmo Tell; William Tell; Introduction
Composer(s): Rossini
6)
Fantaisie-caprice, op. 11, A major
aka Fantasy caprice; Fantasia caprice
Composer(s): Vieuxtemps
7)
Drømmebilleder
aka Drommebilleder; Dromme Billeder ; Traumbilder ; Visions in a Dream; Pictures of dreams; Frambileter; Fraumbileter; Cloud pictures; Dissolving views; Nebelbilder
Composer(s): Lumbye
8)
Rhapsodie hongroise, piano, no. 2
Composer(s): Liszt
9)
Rienzi, ballet
Composer(s): Wagner
10)
"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
11)
Wiener Fresken, op. 249
Composer(s): Strauss
12)
For ever, op. 193
aka Für immer; Forever
Composer(s): Strauss

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 26 July 1875, 7.

Includes program. 

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 26 July 1875, 1.

Includes program.