New-York tribune., 1871-05-31
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE,
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.
MUSIC.
rnoMAs,s GARDEN CoNCERTs.

TuOMAs'S GARDEN CONCfhio
Tho blazing sun of this premature summer
seems TO spare the Central Park GardehS' wno0 ino
dore Thomas gives his nightly concerts. announces VI
the very best class throng the Mans anu sp -,
tho ulacrce bowers and tsste little fresh air out OF
doors, whilo r.. an ,...oo..
Play heavenly tunes .....-
A.. rn,derful orchestral bewnchcs us with tho
hIIo, music from Faust" tho wedding chorus from
I or some OF those lively Strauss waltzes or
ovcrtures by Weber and Flotow There either In tho
band-well played. everything ia at this pace-and
the great public takes huge delight in IT, The Garden
10 be sure big II might be, but 1t IL charm
inc resort for the tired and heated ctzen,-we kept
orderly and respectable and the music is always dell
ciois Mr. Thomas has made few changes In the com
postlon OF the orchestra and VIII soon make few more
His old conrade Mr.. Matzka, Is now first volinist but
this place is TO be filled, after while, by Mr. Liste
mann now the leader Of Mr. Zerrahns orchestra In Bos
ton Several others OF the principal musicians OF that
city have been induced to attach themselves perma
nently 70 Mr. Tbomas's company,--among thom Heindl
the first viola player so the band is always getting
better and better and the best performers in the country
are glad to Join it.
TERRACE GARDEN CONCERTS.
The experiment. Of Summer evening enter
tainInens at the Terrace Garden is not In former
years gast groves OF that sylvan retreat have many
time resounded with the strains Of the martial brass
the soothing scrape of the fiddle and the onk OF the
festive beer-gass Successive propretors have found
their reward more fear In the consciousness Of well
doing than in the comfort Of swelling purse. But tho
latest venture opens with brighter prospects than Its pre-
decessors. The Garden has been somewhat improved
by the simple device OF moving The main entrance around
the taken cut of the pebean locality OF
the Thrdaye aud carried into the respectabiy
of IIfty-eghtht. The interior arrangcment-the Sheds
the tables the gravel walks. the fowerpots, and the
ountans-have apparently been more or less completely
renovated unt as EastSide enthusiast might say,
the establishment presents gorgeous scene Of bewider
ing and cOruscatng splcndOrs The music is furnished
by NJ Louis George Jullien-a gentleman who displays
many of the pecuaries of dress and manner, we'll
chestra is good one selected from
cautal material and led with spirit which IL Ia very
entertaining TO witness NJ. Julien does not mako his
programmes too good for his audiences He gives watzcs
and duadriLes and operate selections and plenty OF
those great show pieces which hs father used to de-
Hight and no throws in frequent solos, both vocal and
instrumental and when the people tire OF all this they
have weiss bier and brown-bread, and cecream, and
go to the shooting gallery where nOseiess pop guns are
perpetuay fired off at wooden young lady in Prus-
sian helmet beats the drum whenever she Is pierced
To the heart or coOred brother whose mortal agoncs
are indicated by frantic performance on the tambonr-
inc The band numbers about 80 pieces and Mr Adolf
Neuendorf relieves NJ Julien and then at the con
duotors stand Upon the whole 1t is very nice place