Church of the Mediator Benefit
Event Information
Venue(s):
Irving Hall
Price: $.50
Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo), Choral
Performance Forces:
Vocal
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
19 August 2013
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
30 Jan 1863, 7:15 PMProgram Details
Three choral works:
Verhulst: “Veni Creator Spiritus” four part chorus for male voices
Mendelssohn: “Wandering time” Chorus/quartette for male voices
Rossini: “Tantum ergo” three-part chorus for male voices
COMMENT: “Choruses sustained by: Mr. Camp; Mr. DuClos; Mr. Frisbee; Mr. Goode; Mr. Howe; Mr. Neaves; Mr. Seymour; Mr. Frost and other amateurs of talent.”
Verhulst: “Veni Creator Spiritus” four part chorus for male voices
Mendelssohn: “Wandering time” Chorus/quartette for male voices
Rossini: “Tantum ergo” three-part chorus for male voices
COMMENT: “Choruses sustained by: Mr. Camp; Mr. DuClos; Mr. Frisbee; Mr. Goode; Mr. Howe; Mr. Neaves; Mr. Seymour; Mr. Frost and other amateurs of talent.”
Performers and/or Works Performed
1)
Participants: Students of General Theological Seminary Chorus; Mr. Camp (role: vocal); Mr. Frisbee (role: vocal); Mr. Goode (role: vocal); Mr. Howe (role: vocal); Mary E. Hawley (role: contralto); Mr. Neaves (role: vocal); William Berge; Mr. [vocalist] Seymour (role: vocal); Henri Appy; Mr. [Muhlenberg’s Church] Johnson (role: vocal); P. Duclos [tenor]; Clara M. Brinkerhoff; Herman Frost [bass]; S. P. [Tenor] Simpson (role: tenor); William Morrow (role: baritone)
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14)
aka Ah, se il fratel;
Life has no power
Composer(s): Donizetti
Citations
1)
Johnson is “of Dr. Muhlenberg’s Church.” Berge is “the organist of the church of St. Francis Xavier.”
“Some students of the General Theological Seminary, who lately gave a successful concert for the benefit of their chapel fund, will [sing]. . . . [Berge] has consented to preside at the piano.”
5)
“[L]ike all affairs of the kind, [it] was wearisome from the admixture of sacred and secular subjects. There was a great deal of volunteer talent, too, which did not add to the cheerfulness of the occasion. Proprietors of music halls should make it a condition that neither children in arms nor amateurs should be admitted – whereby unpleasant noises would be avoided. The best morceaux were interpreted by artists, namely Made. Clara M. Brinkerhoff, who sang a sacred song by Cherubini, and an interminable piece [by] Alary.”
6)
Hawley “possesses a fine contralto voice, and sings ballads with much expression. . . . The gentlemen vocalists were, we believe, amateurs; at any rate, we hope they were.—It has always been our opinion, however, in spite of the charitable silence of that dash,--that from the moment an amateur appears on a public stage, however private, he or she must be judged by the same standard as the professional artist. Mr. Appy, the violinist, played a fantasia on themes by Bellini, and De Beriot’s Tremolo, with the elegance and purity of tone, characteristic of the French school, to which he belongs.”