Trinity Church Sunday Service

Event Information

Venue(s):
Trinity Church

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 July 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 Nov 1868, Morning

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Trinity Church Choir;  A. H. Messiter
2)
Paulus, "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme"
aka Sleepers, awake!
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
3)
Anthem, unidentified
Composer(s): Cutler

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., 29 November 1868.

“Offertory ‘Sleepers, Wake!’ (from Mendelssohn) felicitously chosen.  Sermon, and anthem, an inane production of Cutler’s were both insults to an assemblage presumed to possess common sense and able to distinguish real Music from Sham.

“Rev. Vinton with his $10,000 salary and allowance, is a positive dead weight upon the Parish. . . . As to our Kapellmeister, Mr. Messiter, I shall tell him that I mean to oppose any further appropriations of money to the musical expenses of Trinity, until he stops nauseating people with ‘Anthems by Cutler’ and vapidities of the same low grade! It’s no use spending money to improve the performance of worthless music. Rendered by the choir of the Sistine Chapel it would be worthless, just the same.”