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)

05 Aug 1875, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra;  S. E. [violinist] Jacobsohn;  Carl [flautist] Wehner
2)
Work, unidentified
Composer(s): Mozart
3)
Orphée et Eurydice, ballets
aka Orphee et Eurydice, ballets
Composer(s): Gluck
Participants:  Carl [flautist] Wehner
4)
Symphony, no. 100, G major
aka Military symphony; Symphony, no. 11
Composer(s): Haydn
5)
Overture to Medea, op. 22
Composer(s): Bargiel
6)
Romance, violin, orchestra, op. 42
Composer(s): Bruch
Participants:  S. E. [violinist] Jacobsohn
7)
Episoden aus Lenaus Faust, "Tanz in der Dorfschenke"
aka Mephisto waltz, no. 1; Faust waltz
Composer(s): Liszt
8)
Schauspiel-Ouvertüre
aka Schauspiel overture
Composer(s): Hofmann
9)
Serenade, unidentified
Composer(s): Schubert
10)
Tannhäuser, "Freudig begrüssen wir die edle Halle," Allegro
aka March; Fest march; Festmarsch; Grand march; Tannhauser. Freudig begrussen wir die edle Halle. Allegro
Composer(s): Wagner

Citations

1)
Article: New York Post, 04 August 1875, 2.

Discussion of selected works from the program.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 05 August 1875, 7.

Includes program. 

3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 05 August 1875, 1.

Includes program; the unidentified work by Mozart: Adagio and fugue, C minor, originally a piano duet, performed at these concerts “for the first time.”