Reading Room Fund Benefit Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Steinway Hall

Price: $1 reserved; $.50

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
16 July 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

02 Apr 1869, Evening

Program Details

Given “by the Scholars of Bedford, Perry and 18th-st. Sunday Schools, for the benefit of a Reading-room Fund for the establishment of Free Reading-rooms in different parts of this City.” Performers volunteered; additional “eminent vocalists” performed but are not listed by name.

Performers and/or Works Performed

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 30 March 1869, 7.
2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 02 April 1869, 12.