Central-Park Band Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Mall

Conductor(s):
Harvey Bradley Dodworth

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
17 July 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

10 Sep 1864, 4:00 PM

Program Details

The concert was performed in three parts.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
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
2)
Dichter und Bauer, overture
aka Poet and peasant overture
Composer(s): Suppé
3)
"Abschied der Schwalben"
aka Schwalbens Abscheid
Composer(s): Kücken
4)
Friedrichs Schottische
Composer(s): Kühner
5)
INTERMISSION
6)
Sommernachtstraum, Ein, overture
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
7)
Apollo
Composer(s): Kochkeller
8)
Robert le diable, selections
aka Potpourri on Robert le diable
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
9)
INTERMISSION
10)
Parade march
Composer(s): Bartholomäus
11)
Green hill notturno
12)
Hibernian quadrille
aka Ireland; Quadrille on Irish airs
Composer(s): Jullien
13)
Gut Heil!
aka Good health quickstep; Turner March, “Good Health”; Leipziger Turnfest; Turnfest in Leipzig; Turnerfest march; Turner-Fest march
Composer(s): Hamm
14)
National potpourri
aka National pot pouri; National potpourri; National medley; National airs
Composer(s): Dodworth

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 10 September 1862, 8.
Program.
2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 10 September 1864.
Program.
3)
Announcement: New York Sun, 10 September 1864, 4.
Program.
4)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 10 September 1864, 8.
Includes program.
5)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 10 September 1864.

6)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 12 September 1864, 12.
Very brief – no mention of music. “About sixty-thousand persons present.”