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NYGWPB.761.070
4 Jun 1761:31 (961)
Philadelphia, May 28. On Saturday last the publick
commencement was held in the college of this city, before a
vast concourse of people of all ranks. Besides the usual
exercises (which gave great satisfaction to the audience,
there was performed in the forenoon an elegant anthem,
composed by James Lyons, A.M. of New-Jersey College; and in
the afternoon an ode, sacred to the memory of our late
gracious sovereign George II, written and set to musick, in
a very grand and masterly taste, by Francis Hopkinson, Esq;
A.M. of the college of this city. A set of ladies and
gentlemen, in order to do honour to the entertainment of the
day, were kindly pleased to perform a part both of the
anthem and ode, accompanied by the organ, which made the
musick a very complete and agreeable entertainment to all
present. . . [3 more lines]
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