Columbia College Commencement

Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Event Type:
Band

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 May 2011

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 Jun 1864, Morning

Program Details



Performers and/or Works Performed

2)
aka The President’s March
Composer(s): Phile
Text Author: Hopkinson

Citations

1)
Review: New-York Times, 30 June 1864, 4.

The Academy was “crowded by a brilliant and fashionable audience. . . .

The benediction was then pronounced, after which the audience retired, the band playing ‘Hail Columbia.”