Central Park Cornet Band Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Upper Lake

Conductor(s):
Harvey Bradley Dodworth

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
5 September 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

06 Sep 1865, 3:00 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 06 September 1865.
2)
Review: New York Herald, 07 September 1865.

“The attendance at the Park concert was small yesterday, owing to the inclemency of the weather, which did not, however, prevent Dodworth’s band from performing as usual on the lake. Those who were present, though not large in numbers, were highly appreciative, and many skimmed along the water in the gondolets, [sic] whose [illeg.] kept time to the sweet sounds, which, echoing through the trees on the banks of the lake, murmeured [illeg.] in the ears of the fashionables who were being [illeg]creamed in the casino on the hill.”