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:
19 September 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

02 Sep 1865, 4:00 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Central Park Band
2)
Cheval de bronze, Le, overture
Composer(s): Auber
3)
"Adieu"
aka Last greeting; Adieu! 'Tis love's last greeting
Composer(s): Weyrauch
4)
Volunteers’ return
Composer(s): Kameke
5)
Maritana, selections
Composer(s): Wallace
6)
"Sunset"
Composer(s): Massett
Text Author: Moore
7)
Fidelio, (1805), overture
aka Leonore overture, no. 2
Composer(s): Beethoven
8)
Dresden Sangerfest
Composer(s): Wallenstein [composer]
9)
Hibernian quadrille
aka Ireland; Quadrille on Irish airs
Composer(s): Jullien
10)
Elisir d'amore, L', selections
Composer(s): Donizetti
11)
Styrian melodies
Composer(s): Kühner

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 01 September 1865, 2.

With program.

2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 02 September 1865, 8.

With program.

3)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 02 September 1865.
4)
Review: New York Herald, 03 September 1865, 5.

“Owing to [the threatening weather] the number of visitors was considerably smaller than usual.  Precisely at four o’clock the overture to ‘Le Cheval de Bronze’ was given, and the other selected pieces followed in rapid succession.  Among them were several selections from ‘Maritana,’ which elicited considerable applause from the audience.  About five o’clock a few drops of rain fell, and the visitors immediately began to leave the Park or seek shelter beneath the Terrace and in the Casino.  During the summer there has been but one Saturday when the music was omitted in consequence of rain.”

5)
Review: New-York Times, 03 September 1865, 8.

Includes statistics on park attendance from 1861 to 1865.  “The attendance at the Park yesterday was quite small, owing to the threatening state of the weather.  In all there were not more than five or six thousand persons present.  The programme furnished by Harvey B. Dodworth and his superb Park Band was fully up to the high established standard so long maintained since the inauguration of these popular al fresco concerts, the Saturday music-days.”