Oratorical and Musical Entertainment in Aid of the Relief Fund of the Ladies’ Home U.S. General Hospital
Event Information
Venue(s):
Academy of Music
Price: $1
Event Type:
Band
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
30 June 2014
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
23 Jun 1864, 7:30 PMProgram Details
Performers and/or Works Performed
Citations
1)
“For the benefit of soldiers from the front. There will be a grand oratorical and musical entertainment at the Academy of Music on the evening of Thursday the 23rd instant, to aid the special relief fund of the Ladies Hospital for the benefit of the sick and wounded soldiers. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, the Rev. Dr. R.H. Chapin, the Rev. Prof. Hitchcock, the Rev. Dr. Foster, and James T. Brady, esq., have consented to speak, and some of the first artists in the musical world, whose names will be announced hereafter, will be present to add their efforts to this grand entertainment.”
3)
“[M]usic will be performed by Grafulla’s 7th Regiment Band.”
6)
Lists members of the Committee of Arrangements, which include Henry Steinway, Horace Greeley and many others.
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“The orchestra was [illeg.] by Grafulla’s Seventh regiment band, which discoursed elegant music during the interims between the addresses. . . .
. . . [The band performed] some very choice selections of music.”9)
“A very large audience assembled last evening in the Academy of Music to listen to an oratorical and musical entertainment given in aid of the relief fund of the Ladies’ Home United States General Hospital. . . .
All the speakers were frequently and enthusiastically applauded, and the splendid music of Grafulla’s Seventh Regiment Band was appreciated by the audience to the fullest extent.10)
In the “General News” section. “The oratorical and musical entertainment in aid of the relief fund of the Ladies’ Home United States General Hospital drew an unusually large audience to the Academy of Music last evening. . . . Grafulla’s Seventh Regiment Band added its splendid music to the other attractions of the evening.”