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:
28 March 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

04 Aug 1866, 4:00 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)
Aquatic
Composer(s): Dodworth
3)
Barbiere di Siviglia, Il, overture
aka Barber of Seville; Almaviva, ossia L’inutile precauzione; Almaviva; or, The useless precaution
Composer(s): Rossini
4)
Three guardsmen, The, [waltz]
Composer(s): Baker
5)
Adagio and rondo
Composer(s): Golde
6)
INTERMISSION
7)
Leopoldstädter, op. 168
aka Leopoldstadter
Composer(s): Strauss
8)
Lurline, overture
aka introduction; Loreley
Composer(s): Wallace
9)
Quadrille on songs of the olden time
Composer(s): Coote (1807-1879)
10)
Attila, selection
Composer(s): Verdi
Text Author: Solera
11)
INTERMISSION
12)
Crispino e la comare, march
Composer(s): Ricci, Ricci
13)
Green hill
Composer(s): Dodworth
14)
Rosa
Composer(s): Burkhardt
15)
Forward galop
Composer(s): Kühner

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 03 August 1866, 2.

Gives program.

2)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 04 August 1866, 8.

 

Gives program.

3)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 04 August 1866.
4)
Review: New York Herald, 05 August 1866, 4.

     “Park Concert. In spite of the rain yesterday there was a large crowd of music-loving people assembled around the music stand in the Park. No less than twelve thousand people were present.  Every five minutes a heavy shower scattered Mr. Dodworth’s audience in every direction, and on the Terrace and Casino were crowded half drenched groups of ladies in light summer attire.  The programme was certainly very attractive, and, considering that many members of the band had to attend to their umbrellas as well as their instruments, it was very fairly rendered. The two overtures, Il Barbiere and Lurline, were the best pieces on the programme, and were received with enthusiasm, undampened by the frowns of Jupiter Pluvius. The Green Hill Nocturno is a very tame affair. Ditto, Kühner’s Forward Galop. The grand selection from Verdi’s Attila was a very lucid and spirited sketch of the raid of the barbarian Huns, and portrayed the scourge of God in strong colors. The reed and brass instruments in Mr. Dodworth’s band are so admirably balanced that every orchestral effect can be given to a piece.  The Park band this summer, although a hastily got up organization, has so far answered fully the expectations of the public, and reflected considerable credit on its excellent leader.”