Trinity Church Sunday Service

Event Information

Venue(s):
Trinity Church

Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo)

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 July 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 May 1867, Morning

Citations

1)
: Strong, George Templeton. New-York Historical Society. The Diaries of George Templeton Strong, 1863-1869: Musical Excerpts from the MSs, transcribed by Mary Simonson. ed. by Christopher Bruhn., 19 May 1867.

“Anthem at Trinity rubbish, were it twenty times Handel’s being salva reverentia one of those twiddling twaddling pieces of mere inane vocalization which that composer sometimes descended to perpetrate and to the execution whereof our present boy prima donna was lamentably unequal.”