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:
12 July 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 Aug 1875, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Schauspiel-Ouvertüre
aka Schauspiel overture
Composer(s): Hofmann
3)
Sommernachtstraum, Ein, notturno
aka nocturne ; notturino;
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
4)
Aufforderung zum Tanze
aka Invitation à la valse
Composer(s): Weber
5)
Lohengrin, selections
Composer(s): Wagner
6)
Overture to Medea, op. 22
Composer(s): Bargiel
7)
Septet, strings, winds, op. 20, E-flat major. Andante con variation
Composer(s): Beethoven
8)
Episoden aus Lenaus Faust, "Tanz in der Dorfschenke"
aka Mephisto waltz, no. 1; Faust waltz
Composer(s): Liszt
9)
Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Die, overture
aka Merry Wives of Windsor
Composer(s): Nicolai
10)
Serenade, unidentified
Composer(s): Schubert
11)
Dorfschwalben aus Oesterreich, op. 164
aka Village swallows; Village swallows from Austria; Die Dorfschwalben
Composer(s): Strauss
12)
Damnation de Faust, La, "Marche hongroise"
aka Hungarian March; Rákóczi March; Rakoczy
Composer(s): Berlioz

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 04 August 1875, 7.

Includes program. 

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 04 September 1875, 1.

Includes program.