Central Park Band Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Mall

Conductor(s):
Harvey Bradley Dodworth

Price: Free

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 November 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Jul 1863, 4:00 PM

Program Details

Part I – H.B. Dodworth: “Central Park march”
Adam: Giralda, La overture
Stigelli: “The brightest eyes”
Downing: “The reconnaissance” quick march

Part II – Schubert: March “Heroique,” op. 66
Beethoven: Fidelio overture
Meyerbeer: Huguenots, Les selections
Verdi: Lucrezia Borgia chorus

Part III – Bradley: “Ella Leene medley”
Jullien: “Jullien’s last” waltz
Flotow: [Eau merveilleuse] Das wunderwasser duet
Stasney: “Alma Siege’s gallop”
National Pot Pouri


Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Central Park Band
2)
Central Park
aka Park march, The; Central Park; Central Park music; Salutory park march; Salutary park march; Concert-Signal March; Proem; Attention; Introductory march
Composer(s): Dodworth
3)
Giralda; ou, La nouvelle Psyché, overture
aka Giralda; ou, La nouvelle Psyche; Nouvelle Psyché
Composer(s): Adam
4)
Galop on Stigelli's Die Schönsten Augen
aka Brightest eyes; Shoensten Augen; Schonsten Augen
5)
Reconnaissance, The
aka Reconnaissance promenade; Reconnaissance quick march; The Reconnaissance
Composer(s): Downing
6)
INTERMISSION
7)
Marches héroïques, D. 602, no. 1, B minor
aka March No. 1, op. 27 “Heroique”; 3 Marches héroïques, no. 1, op. 27; Heroique
Composer(s): Schubert
8)
Fidelio, overture, unidentified
aka Leonore overture, unidentified
Composer(s): Beethoven
9)
Huguenots, Les, selections
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
Text Author: Scribe, Deschamps
10)
Lucrezia Borgia, chorus
Composer(s): Donizetti
11)
INTERMISSION
12)
Ella Leene medley quickstep
Composer(s): Dodworth
13)
Jullien's last waltz
aka Julien's Last
Composer(s): Jullien
14)
Eau merveilleuse, L', duet
aka Wunderwasser (Ger. trans.)
Composer(s): Flotow
15)
Alma Sieges-Galopp, op. 49
aka Alma Sieges Galop; Alma Galop; Alma Siege’s gallop
Composer(s): Stasny
16)
National potpourri
aka National pot pouri; National potpourri; National medley; National airs
Composer(s): Dodworth

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 24 July 1863, 3.

2)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 25 July 1863, 4.

3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 25 July 1863, 4.

4)
Announcement: New-York Times, 25 July 1863, 5.
Program.  “There will be music in the Central Park . . . if the weather is fine.”
5)
Review: Musical Review and World, 01 August 1863, 184-85.

Lists the program.  “The musical season for the present concentrates itself entirely upon a certain spot, in our grand and charming Central Park.  There, on a Saturday afternoon, music is heard, to the entire satisfaction of an immense crowd, who for once are not forgetful of the fact, that they did not pay any admission-fee. 
The progamme of last Saturday’s Concert [was] conducted as usual by Mr. H.B. Dodworth.” [Date missing from review; date is probable]