Trinity Church Sunday School Children Christmas Festival

Event Information

Venue(s):
Trinity Church

Price: Free Admission

Event Type:
Choral

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
7 August 2013

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 Dec 1862, 3:00 PM

Program Details

Christmas Festival of the Sunday School Children of Trinity Church

Choir of 300 Children; bells

"Unidentified Christmas carol" written expressly for the occasion (choir)

All works without listed participants were performed by "bells".

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Children's choir, unidentified
2)
"Adeste fideles"
Composer(s): Wade
Participants:  Children's choir, unidentified
3)
Christmas carol, unidentified
Participants:  Children's choir, unidentified
4)
"Christmas tree, The [Ogilby]"
Composer(s): Ogilby
Participants:  Children's choir, unidentified
5)
Ringing the changes on eight bells
6)
"Silent night, holy night"
aka Stille Nacht gwv145
Composer(s): Gruber
7)
Rondo, with variations in major and minor keys
Composer(s): Bristow
8)
Christmas carol, unidentified
9)
"Evening bells"
Composer(s): Unknown composer
10)
"Once in royal David's city"
aka Irby
Composer(s): Gauntlett
Text Author: Alexander [poet/lyricist]
11)
Vesper hymn

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 24 December 1862, 2.
2)
Review: New York Herald, 25 December 1862, 5.

Lyrics to the first part of the “Unidentified Christmas Carol written expressly for the occasion” are given: “Again the hour is pealing / When Jesus left the sky / All worlds before him kneeling / For man to bleed and die.  Chorus: Ring – bells – ring sweetly ever / ‘till Christ shall come again / And from the graves deliver / His saints with him to reign.”  “A large and fashionable audience . . . ’Adeste fideles’ [was] executed in a very laudable manner. . . .

          During the singing of the [‘Unidentified Christmas Carol’], the bells of Trinity took up the refrain of the chorus outside, producing a fine effect. . . .

         ‘The Christmas Tree,’ composed by Rev. Dr. Ogleby for the occasion, was then sung. . . .

         During the afternoon, the chimes of old Trinity played . . . tunes upon the bells, producing a magnificent effect.”