Music by Moonlight

A “cornet band will play on the lake at the Park this afternoon, commencing at 4 ½ o’clock.”

“The evening concerts in the Park have proved to be a complete success.  Thousands of persons attended that of last evening and the Terrace, Walks, Iron Bridge and Ramble were very crowded. The lake was alive with boats, each filled as closely as possible, and had there been thrice the number they could all have been filled with voyagers—ladies as well as gentlemen. The evening was beautifully calm, and the moon shone clearly, illuminating the Park with a pleasant twilight. The cornet band, under the leadership of Mr. Thomas Dodworth, performed some fine concerted pieces, and the leader played several solos on the cornopean—the melodies being distinctly heard on the shore. The value of the Casino is decidedly manifested on concert evenings, the building being crowded the whole time. In consequence of the fine weather last evening, the concert was extended until ten o’clock P. M. The Park Commissioners deserve great credit in carrying out the refined and, at the same time, healthy recreation of summer evening concerts in the Park. It is now an institution and will have to be continued on an enlarged scale.”

Long, lyrical article on the Music By Moonlight series in the park, though it doesn’t have much about music.  “On moonlight [sic] nights the cornet band take to the waters, and from an open boat discourse such rare and delicious melodies that the very swans stop to listen.”