Citation - Newport Mercury: 1781.05.05

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Index Entry Anthem, sung in Cambridge, by choir of singers at University 
Location Cambridge 
Citation
NM.781.007
5 May 1781:41 (1023)
University of Cambridge, April 9, 1781.  On Wednesday last
the following performances were exhibited in the chapel,
before a committee of the honorable and reverend Board of
Overseers, and a respectable company of gentlemen and
ladies, by a number of students, as specimens of the
progress of literature and the polite arts, in this
university. . . . An anthem and tune were then sung by the
choir of singers. Instrumental music as performed while the
committee were entering, and also while they were leaving
the chapel.


Generic Title Newport Mercury 
Date 1781.05.05 
Publisher Barber, Henry 
City, State Newport, RI 
Year 1781 
Bibliography B0032607
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