Event Information
Venue(s):
Apollo Hall
Conductor(s):
Sigismond Lasar
Price: $.50
Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
23 January 2022
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
09 Apr 1870, All Day
Program Details
The daylong event began at 10am with a “reunion†featuring “brief addresses.†Unspecified vocal and instrumental music and poetry readings seem to have begun at at 8pm. (It is unclear where in Apollo Hall this all took place, as there was also a Hibernicon performance there that evening [see separate event entry, 04/04/70].) Frederick Douglass was among the speakers.
Citations
1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 07 April 1870, 7.
2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 08 April 1870, 5.
“Wendell Phillips, Frederick Douglass and others are to speak at Apollo Hall on Saturday evening, the occasion of the celebration by the Anti-Slavery Society of the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment.”
3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 09 April 1870, 7.