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 PM

Program Details

To benefit the "‘Union Home and School for the Education and Maintenance of Children of Fallen Soldiers"

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Juvenile Choir, unidentified

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 08 December 1863.

2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 08 December 1863, 7.

“[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.”

3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 10 December 1863, 6.

4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 10 December 1863, 9.

“An interesting feature of this entertainment will be the Military Drill by the Children of ‘The Home.’”

5)
Announcement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 10 December 1863, 8.

“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.”