Central Park Band Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Mall

Conductor(s):
Harvey Bradley Dodworth

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
3 January 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 Jul 1865, 4:30 PM

Program Details

The concert was performed in three parts.

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)
Gustave III; ou, Le bal masqué, overture
aka Bal masqué
Composer(s): Auber
4)
Forza del destino, La, "Rataplan, rataplan, rataplan"
aka Rataplan de la gloria
Composer(s): Verdi
5)
May breezes, The
aka 'S Máilüfterl; May breeze; Mailüfterl, Das
Composer(s): Kreipl
6)
INTERMISSION
7)
Sultan Aziz
Composer(s): Gatelly
8)
Vêpres siciliennes, Les, selections
aka Vepres; I Vespri siciliani; Sicilian vespers, The; potpourri; Pot pourri
Composer(s): Verdi
9)
Cricket polka
Composer(s): Jullien
10)
Jubel-Ouvertüre
aka Jubel overture; Jubilee
Composer(s): Weber
11)
INTERMISSION
12)
Marche nationale de Chasseurs anglais
Composer(s): Ascher [comp.]
13)
Eau merveilleuse, L', duet
aka Wunderwasser (Ger. trans.)
Composer(s): Flotow
14)
Mocking bird, [quickstep]
Composer(s): Bradley
15)
Irving Hall
Composer(s): Weingarten
16)
Union, The
aka Union: north, south, east, and west
Composer(s): Dodworth

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 15 July 1865, 4.

“Music at the Park.

     There will be the usual musical exercises at the Park this afternoon, on the Mall, commencing at half past four o’clock, by the Park Band, under the leadership of H.B. Dodworth.  The programme is as follows: - [Lists program.]

To The Editor Of The Herald.

     You will do much towards perpetuating this popular amusement by informing your readers and all interested in the pleasing Saturday concerts at the Park, that the expenses of the music are defrayed by the subscriptions of the city railroads (except the Eighth Avenue Railroad, which, it is reported, has never contributed a dollar), whose incomes are increased by these attractions, and of private persons who are desirous that the people should have this enjoyment.  The Herald weekly makes mention of the crowds who attend these concerts, and if it would also ask those who can afford it, to send in their subscriptions, according to their inclination and means, to the Comptroller of the Park, for the furtherance of this object, it would be doing a good action.

     Some city governments defray the expense of weekly public music from their treasuries, but as we cannot hope that the same can be done in this city, our only hope is in the liberality of individuals, and the writer thinks it will only be necessary that the fact should be known that the Saturday concerts at the Park are paid for by voluntary contributions, to insure a subscription that will encourage the Park Commissioners to continue them not only on Saturday but on another afternoon of the week.  W.H.W.”

2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 15 July 1865, 2.

Program.

3)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 15 July 1865, 6.

Includes program.

4)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 15 July 1865.
5)
Review: New York Herald, 17 July 1865, 5.

     Includes a list of flowers and trees in bloom.  “The open air concert in the Park on Saturday was well attended, and the Mall and Terrace, for the first time since the Fourth of July, began to wear their customary Saturday afternoon aspect of brilliant fashion and animated enjoyment.  The grounds everywhere were in beautiful condition, as may be judged from the subjoined list of Flowers and Trees in Bloom.”