Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Library Committee: Benefit Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Cooper Institute

Price: $.50

Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo)

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
3 May 2012

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 May 1865, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Union Glee Club was assisted by “eminent lady amateurs.”

“Toll the bell mournfully” (Union Glee Club)was composed in tribute to the memory of Abraham Lincoln.


Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Union Glee Club;  George W. Colby
2)
"Toll the bell mournfully"
Composer(s): Everest
Participants:  Union Glee Club

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 13 May 1865, 2.

     Includes a description of the purpose of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Library Committee.  “…To secure the necessary ‘fund’ for the above purposes, the Committee offer to the public a ‘grand patriotic, vocal and instrumental concert,’ at the Cooper Institute, on Wednesday evening, May 17.  The entertainment will consist of the new music of the day, popularly rendered by the ‘Union (Anderson’s) Glee Club,’ assisted by eminent lady amateurs.  We commend this entertainment to the patronage of our friends and the public, and bespeak a large and appreciative audience.”

2)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 17 May 1865, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New York Sun, 17 May 1865.
4)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 17 May 1865, 7.

     “The celebrated and popular Union Glee Club have generously tendered their services, and will be assisted, for this occasion only, by Eminent Lady Amateurs, in a new and varied programme, embracing most of the new music of the day.  By particular request, the Union Glee Club will sing the new piece entitled ‘Toll, Toll the Bell’ - a tribute to the memory of our late President, besides other new music.”