National Peace Jubilee

Peace Jubilee, Boston, 1869
Peace Jubilee, Boston, 1869

The National Peace Jubilee was a celebration, organized by Patrick Gilmore in Boston on June 15, 1869. It featured an orchestra and a chorus, as well as numerous soloists. More than 11,000 performers participated, including the famous violinist Ole Bull as the orchestra's concertmaster,[1] and Carl Zerrahn as director of the choral forces.[2] The Jubilee became the "high-water mark in the influence of the band in American life".[3] Along with the World's Peace Jubilee and International Musical Festival in 1872, it made Gilmore a famous composer and bandmaster. For the Jubilee, a newly commissioned "Hymn of Peace" was written by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, set to the music from "American Hymn" by Matthais Keller.[4]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Hansen, pg. 229
  2. John Tasker Howard (1936). "Zerrahn, Carl". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
  3. Crawford, pgs. 289-291
  4. Hall, pg. 13-14

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Coordinates: 42°20′59.19″N 71°4′35.68″W / 42.3497750°N 71.0765778°W / 42.3497750; -71.0765778 (Copley Square, Boston)


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