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:
2 November 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

13 Aug 1864, 4:30 PM

Program Details

The program was performed in three parts.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Central Park Band
2)
Monténégrins, Les, overture
Composer(s): Limnander
3)
Crusaders, The, "They little know the charm"
Composer(s): Benedict
4)
Crusaders, The, "On chieftains, on"
Composer(s): Benedict
5)
Nabucco, "Immenso Jehova"
aka Nabuco
Composer(s): Verdi
6)
Nabucco, chorus
Composer(s): Verdi
7)
INTERMISSION
8)
Sommernachtstraum, Ein, "Hochzeitsmarsch"
aka Midsummer night's dream, A; wedding march
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
9)
Martyrs, Les, overture
aka Die Maertyrer; Die Märtyrer
Composer(s): Donizetti
10)
Stabat Mater, "Quando corpus"
Composer(s): Rossini
11)
Stabat Mater, "In sempiterna saecula, amen"
aka Amen finale chorus
Composer(s): Rossini
12)
Elisir d'amore, L', selections
Composer(s): Donizetti
13)
INTERMISSION
14)
Lurline, march
aka quickstep
Composer(s): Wallace
15)
Jullien's last waltz
aka Julien's Last
Composer(s): Jullien
16)
Xacarilla, La, aria
aka Zacarilla
Composer(s): Marliani
17)
Irving Hall
Composer(s): Weingarten

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 12 August 1864, 2.

Program.

2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 13 August 1864, 5.

Program.

3)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 13 August 1864.

Program.

4)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 13 August 1864.

Program excerpts.

5)
Review: New York Herald, 14 August 1864, 4.

“It could not be expected that the usual number of Saturday afternoon visitors to the Park would be in attendance at the concert yesterday. The heat was too intense, and even in that open space a sensation of oppression was felt by all. The pedestrians did not exceed twenty thousand.”