THE GREAT REPUBLIC: ALLEGORY AND TABLEAUX: REVISED AND RE-MODELED EXPRESSLY FOR J. M. HAGER'S GRAND CENTENNIAL ENTERTAINMENTS. [cover title] by (Hager, J.M.) - 1873

(New York): np, 1873. Revised edition (this version first published in 1870). 16mo. [3]-25, (1, ad) pp.; verso of front wrapper and rear wrapper print ads for Steinway & Sons. OCLC: "Hager, originally a singer, conducted large voice classes in New York and supervised his students in concerts. He came to specialize in presentations of this musical allegory, at first titled "The Great Rebellion, written in 1863 by Henry Morford. Re-written by Joseph W. Miller and renamed "The Great Republic," its themes are reunion, reconstruction, nationalism, and post-Civil War expansion. Hager continued to produce the work through 1885, recruiting more numerous bodies of singers, including an entire student body, in one instance, from Flushing, New York" (Cf. George C.D. Odell's Annals of the New York Stage, v. 6-13). OCLC locates five copies of this edition (American Antiquarian Society, Harvard, Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Brown, SMU). Very good. Original printed wrappers. (7150).