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:
19 November 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Aug 1864, 4:30 PM

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)
Linda di Chamounix, overture
Composer(s): Donizetti
4)
Geburtstag polka
Composer(s): Gung'l
5)
Marino Faliero, "Or che in cielo"
aka Barcarolle
Composer(s): Donizetti
Text Author: Delavigne
6)
INTERMISSION
7)
Grand march
Composer(s): Hérold
8)
Dernier jour de Missolonghi, Le, overture
Composer(s): Hérold
9)
Fantasia on German airs
Composer(s): Späth
10)
Domino noir, Le, selection
Composer(s): Auber
11)
INTERMISSION
12)
Caesar march
Composer(s): Kochkeller
13)
Rosalien waltzes
Composer(s): Schallehn
14)
Rigoletto, "Bella figlia dell'amore"
aka Rigoletto, quartet
Composer(s): Verdi
15)
Favorita
aka Favorite mazurka;
Composer(s): Cramer
16)
National potpourri
aka National pot pouri; National potpourri; National medley; National airs
Composer(s): Dodworth

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 10 August 1864.

2)
Announcement: New York Post, 19 August 1864, 2.

Program.  Hard to read.

3)
Announcement: New York Herald, 20 August 1864, 4.

4)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 20 August 1864.
Program.
5)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 20 August 1864.

6)
Review: New York Herald, 21 August 1864, 4.

“The usual Saturday afternoon concert was better attended yesterday than for several weeks past, doubtless in consequence of the pleasant weather.  Between sixty and seventy thousand pedestrians were present.”

7)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 22 August 1864, 4.

     "The Park Concert.--The concert at the Park on Saturday attracted the usual crowds of equestrian and pedestrian listeners though there was by no means so large an assemblage as we have seen on former occasions. After all, grumble as we please about the heat, nothing gives such a charm to the landscape as the bright and cheerful sunlight, and on Saturday, though the temperature was all that could be wished, yet--the leaden hue of the sky seemed to have a depressing effect on the whole scene and the spectators. The musical programme was judicious as usual and performed with the general excellence of execution that distinguishes Dodworth's Band."