All Together Now...

     

Those with long memories may remember that one of the Russell family’s business ventures was in music publishing. The full story of The Evening Prayer can be found here in the first half of this old post.

     https://truthhistory.blogspot.com/2019/06/an-evening-prayer-and-william-hickey-2.html

     The post covers W E Van Amburgh’s trial testimony from 1913 when he mentions the Russell music store and also the background to the sheet music that has survived.

     However, any readers of a musical inclination might just want to try and play the piece. Or – on checking it out - might not. In case you are the former, here is the full sheet music. If you probably cannot download the pages from here, simply enlarge and do screen grabs. If you do a close up on the title page you can see clearly the publisher to be J L Russell and Son, Pittsburgh Music House, 85 Fifth Avenue. Contemporary news reports show the performance date to be in 1872.