Bird Concert Program

Boston, Massachusetts, 1880. Fine. Minor rubbing to extremities.. A charming printed concert program illustrated in the chinoiserie style for a "Bird Concert" given in Boston, featuring fourteen different musical pieces with an overarching avian theme, including "Who killed Cock Robin?" and "Ye merry birds", as well as song selections with vocalists imitating bird song. It was well attended, and received a positive mention in the Boston Globe the following day: "The bird concert, last evening, in the Central Square Baptist Church, East Boston, was a unique affair, every selection being a song about the feathered songsters, and the little singers [im]personating a different bird, the whole being very enjoyable" (2 Jan. 1880).

Bifolium (4" by 3.5") printed on light blue-green card by C.H. Woods of East Boston.