Benefit Concert for the Union Home and School
Event Information
Venue(s):
Academy of Music
Price: $.50
Event Type:
Choral
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
24 July 2014
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
10 Dec 1863, 7:30 PMProgram Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
“[F]or the benefit of the Union Home and School for the Education and Maintenance of the Children of Our Volunteers, by the Children of the Institution, assisted by The Juvenile Choir. His Honor, Mayor Updike, Hon. James T Brady, Major General Dix, and General Anderson will be present and will take place in the exercises.”
“Patriotic Concert. A concert to benefit the ‘Union Home and School for the Education and Maintenance of Children of Fallen Soldiers’ is being held this evening at the Academy of Music. Mayor Opdyke, James T. Brady, and Generals Dix and Anderson will give speeches.”
“An interesting feature of this entertainment will be the Military Drill by the Children of ‘The Home.’”