Memorial Service for Elizabeth Bishop (1979)

Hymn: “We Gather Together” (Andrew Castiglione, organist)
Reading of Vassar telegram and excerpts from Sydney Smith and E.B. White (Alice Methfessel)
Remarks & Reading of “Manners” (Robert Fitzgerald)
Hymn: “Rock of Ages” (Andrew Castiglione, organist)
Remarks on National Book Award & Reading of a Letter from Bishop (Robert Giroux)
Twelfth Morning; or What You Will (Anne Hussey)
Reminiscences of Bishop as classmate (Frani Muser)
Hymn: “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” (Andrew Castiglione, organist)
Remarks & Reading of “A Miracle for Breakfast” (John Ashbery)
Remarks & Reading of “Objects and Apparitions” (Octavio Paz)
Objects and Apparitions (Frank Bidart)
Hymn: “Wondrous Lovel” (Jane Struss, vocalist/Benjamin Zander, accompaniment)
Hymn: “There Is a Balm in Gilead” (Jane Struss, vocalist/Benjamin Zander, accompaniment)
Remarks & Reading of George Herbert's “Love Unknown” (Helen Vendler)
The Moose (Frank Bidart)
Sonnet (Lloyd Schwartz)
Closing Hymn: “Dear Lord and Father of Mankind” (Andrew Castiglione, organist)