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PG-P.761.036
28 May 1761:31 (1692)
On Saturday last the public 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 music, in a very grand and masterly taste, by
Francis Hopkinson, Esq; A.M. of the College of this City. A
sett 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 music a very compleat and agreeable
entertainment to all present.
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