Abstract
A study of the Promenade Concerts, Marcus suggests, reveals much about the ways that Boston Symphony management during the late nineteenth century tried to make the orchestral repertoire more appealing to audiences by using an approach different from that used with the Symphony Concerts. Several questions therefore arise: What kind of repertoire did the orchestra perform? What types of audiences attended the Promenade Concerts? And why did the Boston Symphony management establish this concert series at this particular time? Here, he considers some aspects about the repertoire and the audiences who attended the Boston Promenade Concerts before offering some reasons for the creation of this concert series.