Sunset Service

Event Information

Venue(s):
Temple Emmanu-El

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
11 July 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

03 Dec 1869, 5:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Temple Emanu-El Choir
2)
Mass, H. XXII, 1, F major
aka Mass, no. 2; Missa brevis, no. 2
Composer(s): Haydn

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., 03 December 1869.

“At 5 ½ with Ellie, [Trenkholm?] and Murray Hoffman, to ‘sunset Service’ at the grand new Synagogue of the Reformed, Porkophagous, or porcivorous Jews—5th Ave.—interior glowing and gorgeous with gold and color, arabesque wood carvings and columns of polished Syenite. Congregation thin. Service polyglot, Hebrew, German, and English alternately, and mostly choral. Fine choir, with sundry good soli. All the music respectable. As a finale, we were astounded by the splendid Gloria of Haydn’s No. 2, followed by the Qui Tollis and all the rest, adpted to German words (not a translation, of course) and effectively rendered.”