The Greensward Plan was required to include a musical venue, and the original plan was for a music stand to be placed at the Rumsey Playfield, above the Mall and just south of the Lake. The first concert in Central Park occurred in the Ramble on July 6, 1859, and later on, concerts also occurred in the Lake. However, concerts in the Ramble were a short-lived phenomenon. A concert pavilion in the Mall, at the top of Bethesda Terrace, was approved in 1862, and by the pavilion's completion three years later, most of the concerts had shifted to the Mall.
