Benefit Fair and Concert for the Union-Home and School

Event Information

Venue(s):
City Assembly Rooms

Manager / Director:
[manager] Huntington

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
1 May 2014

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 Oct 1863, 8:00 PM

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 27 October 1863, 7.

“Sacred, patriotic and miscellaneous concerts.  Tuesday and Thursday evenings, Oct. 27 and 29 1863, in connection with The Great Fair, for the benefit of the Union Home and School for the Education and Maintenance or the Children of our Volunteers by the Children of the Institution, Assisted by the Juvenile Choir.  The Fair opens on Monday, Oct 26, 1863, and continues during the week.” 

2)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 28 October 1863.

“The musical portion of the entertainment is under the able management of [?] Huntington assisted by Miss Nellie Seriver who presides at the piano.”

3)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 29 October 1863, 89.

“Patriotic and miscellaneous concerts. . . . One of the Horace Waters Pianos, from No. 481 Broadway, has been kindly furnished for the occasion.”