New York Church Choir Union Concert
Event Information
Venue(s):
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Conductor(s):
George Frederick Bristow
Event Type:
Choral
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
19 August 2013
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
29 Jan 1863, EveningProgram Details
R: DJM 02/07/63, pp.355-356 – Bristow: Voluntary (entire choir)
Johann Rudolph Ahle (music): [Neue geistliche auf die Sontage. Ja, er ists, das Heil der Welt] “Blessed Jesus, at thy word” hymn (music by Ahle, “from which we have derived the tune, ‘Nuremberg.’”) (entire choir)
“Lord’s prayer” (intoned), with full harmony Amen
“Psaltet” (“chanted to one of Turner’s single chants”)
“Magnificat” (“sung antiphonally to the First Tone, Ferial form, first ending”)
“Jesu dulcis memoria” (Epiphany hymn “sung to an old melody from the Salisbury Hymnal harmonized by Mr. H.R. Schroeder”) (choir)
“How bright appears our morning star” (to a “chorale by Heinrich Schiedemann (1604)”)
Johann Rudolph Ahle (music): [Neue geistliche auf die Sontage. Ja, er ists, das Heil der Welt] “Blessed Jesus, at thy word” hymn (music by Ahle, “from which we have derived the tune, ‘Nuremberg.’”) (entire choir)
“Lord’s prayer” (intoned), with full harmony Amen
“Psaltet” (“chanted to one of Turner’s single chants”)
“Magnificat” (“sung antiphonally to the First Tone, Ferial form, first ending”)
“Jesu dulcis memoria” (Epiphany hymn “sung to an old melody from the Salisbury Hymnal harmonized by Mr. H.R. Schroeder”) (choir)
“How bright appears our morning star” (to a “chorale by Heinrich Schiedemann (1604)”)
Performers and/or Works Performed
3)
aka Blessed Jesus, at thy word;
Blessed Jesus, at your word;
Liebster Jesu
Composer(s): Ahle
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6)
8)
aka How bright appears the morning star
Composer(s): Scheidemann
Citations
1)
Long letter about the Union written by Timothy Trill. Gives a history of the organization and a summary of their first concert, including a long sermon on church music by Rev. Dr. Muhlenberg, of the Church of the Holy Communion. “A few weeks ago the editor of the Church Journal called on the Rector of ‘Old Trinity’ and asked permission to use the lecture-room of one of the parish churches for a preliminary meeting for the consideration of the feasibility of establishing ‘a regular series of performances by the combined Episcopal Choirs of New York and vicinity.’ Permission was granted, but only ‘two or three’ (figuratively speaking) were present. A board of management was elected, however, of which Rev. Dr. Dix, Rector of Trinity Church, Rev. Mr. Shackleford of Newark, and Mr. W.H. Walter, organist of Trinity chapel, were prominent officers, and the meeting was then adjourned to the following week. At this second meeting there was a still larger attendance, and an order of services and a date for a public performance were decided upon. Notices were shortly after sent around to the churches, and a rehearsal took place on Tuesday, the 27th. Thursday, the 29th, was appointed for the public performance, and a very grand success it proved, notwithstanding the slushy condition of the streets, which made it anything but agreeable to pedestrians. . . . The centre of the building was reserved for the choirs and choir-boys (for there were also many of the latter), and the rest of the pews were thrown open to the public. The services were opened by a voluntary by Mr. Geo. F. Bristow. . . . The Church Choir Union is a praiseworthy movement in the right direction; but if the Directors wish to drive away all ‘professionals’ with the least amount of trouble, they had better advertise a repetition of this sermon, ‘by particular request!’”