Annual Meeting of the Howard Mission and Home for Little Wanderers

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Manager / Director:
Theodore E. Perkins

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Band, Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
7 April 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 May 1863, Evening

Program Details

T. B. Perkins, dir. of the children’s choir and principal of the Normal Music Academy

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Seventh Regiment Band;  Howard Mission Children’s Choir
2)
Lurline, "Sweet spirit, hear my prayer"
aka Prayer; Ave Maria
Composer(s): Wallace
Participants:  Howard Mission Children’s Choir

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 13 May 1863, 7.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 14 May 1863, 7.

3)
Review: New-York Times, 15 May 1863, 4.
“The building was densely crowded; 200 children of the Mission were present, and sang with beautiful effect several simple melodies.  Grafulla’s Band was in attendance.”
4)
Review: New-York Times, 16 May 1863, 2.
“Grafulal’s [sic] Seventh Regiment Band was in attendance.  Two hundred children of the institution were present, seated on an elevated platform at the rear of the stage, so that upon the rising of the green curtain an exceedingly beautiful effect was produced.”