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:
26 July 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

28 Jul 1866, 3:00 PM

Program Details

Due to rain, only the first six numbers were performed.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Central Park Band
2)
Nebenmann, Der
Composer(s): Streck
3)
Fra Diavolo, overture
Composer(s): Auber
4)
"Sunset"
Composer(s): Massett
Text Author: Moore
5)
Great eastern polka, The
Composer(s): Coote (1807-1879)
6)
INTERMISSION
7)
Medley, The
aka Medley on popular airs
Composer(s): Bradley
8)
St. Patrick's quadrille
aka St. Pat's quadrille; Irish airs quadrille
Composer(s): Laurent
9)
Lucia di Lammermoor, selection
aka Lucy of Lammermoor
Composer(s): Donizetti
10)
INTERMISSION
11)
Aspinwall
Composer(s): Dodworth
12)
Leap year
Composer(s): Strauss
13)
Dom Sébastien, roi de Portugal, aria
Composer(s): Donizetti
14)
Avalanche galop, The
Composer(s): Tinney
15)
Oberon, overture
Composer(s): Weber

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 27 July 1866, 3.

Gives program.

2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 28 July 1866, 4.
3)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 28 July 1866, 8.

Gives program.

4)
Review: New York Herald, 29 July 1866, 4.

Notwithstanding the unpropitious state of the weather quite a goodly number of people gathered together at the Park yesterday to listen to the sweet strains of music discoursed by Dodworth’s band.

At three o’clock, the hour appointed for the commencement of the exercises, the Park was almost deserted, but at half-past three the clouds began to break away, and with the first appearance of the sun the people began to gather together through every gateway and along every avenue until at four P. M. several hundred persons were present. The pieces executed on this occasion were evidently selected with taste, and comprised among others some of the finest morceaux from the most eminent German and Italian composers. The programme contained twelve pieces, but owing to a renewal of the storm but eight [six?] were given. Of these, it would be difficult to say which was the best received. The march entitled Der Nebenmann, lively and spirited as it is, was given as the introductory. The overture from Fra Diavolo was executed in a manner that elicited evidence of the highest satisfaction from the audience. Its tender cadences, as well as its sudden transitions from ‘grave to gay,’ were duly appreciated. The ballad entitled ‘Sunset’ was executed in a most masterly style, and formed a marked contrast to the lively noise of the pieces preceding it. Among the other pieces were the following: A polka entitled the Great Eastern by Coote, a medley on popular airs, by Bradley, and an overture to Oberon, by Von Weber, all of which were listened to with attention. Then came the shower. There was one promiscuous scramble for the bridge until its entire area of protection was filled with those hopeful that the storm would soon abate. In this they were disappointed, as the rain continued to fall until night set in and fully closed the exercises for the day. The numerous showers of the past week have had a decidedly favorable effect upon the Park. Vegetation which had in many places commenced to look parched and withered, again began to look fresh and green, and the foliage that had begun to take on the hue of earliest autumn again assumed its wonted livery.”