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:
13 July 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

11 Aug 1875, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra;  Joseph Eller
2)
Anacréon, overture
aka Amour fugitif; Acacreon; Anacreon, overture
Composer(s): Cherubini
3)
Orphée et Eurydice, ballets
aka Orphee et Eurydice, ballets
Composer(s): Gluck
4)
Deutsche Tänze, unidentified (arr. Herbeck)
aka Deutsche Tanze
Composer(s): Schubert
5)
Fliegende Holländer, Der, selections
aka Fliegende Hollander, Der, selections
Composer(s): Wagner
6)
Aladdin
Composer(s): Horneman
7)
Rhapsodie hongroise, piano, no. 1
Composer(s): Liszt
8)
Oberon, overture
Composer(s): Weber
9)
Méditation, B-flat
aka Nouvelle meditation; Meditation, B-flat
Composer(s): Gounod
Participants:  Joseph Eller
10)
Rudolfs-Klänge, op. 283
Composer(s): Strauss
11)
Sommernachtstraum, Ein, "Hochzeitsmarsch"
aka Midsummer night's dream, A; wedding march
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 August 1875, 7.

Includes program. 

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 11 August 1875, 1.

Includes program.