Grand Concert in Memory of Washington for the Benefit of the Institute of Reward for Orphans of Patriots
Event Information
Venue(s):
Cooper Institute
Conductor(s):
Professor Benjamin [variety]
Price: $.25
Event Type:
Choral
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
30 September 2017
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
22 Feb 1865, 2:00 PM22 Feb 1865, 7:30 PM
23 Feb 1865, 7:30 PM
Program Details
Performers were 1500 children from Sunday Schools of all denominations.
Keyword: Civic Event
Keyword: Civic Event
Citations
3)
“[P]articipated in various forms of entertainment—music, dialogue, declamations, &c., all under the direction of Professor L. A. Benjamin.”
4)
“About a thousand children last night . . . gave a concert and exhibition for the benefit of the Institute of Reward for Orphans of Patriots. . . . The accompaniment consisted of a piano-forte and some feeble violin playing by half a dozen kids.
The arrangement of the children on the stage was very effective; and under the cluster of gaslights were groups of faces as beautiful as those little angels or cupids which Albano and Correggio used to paint. The singing was good of its kind and was interspersed with citations and dialogues of an intensely patriot order.”