St. Alban’s Sunday Service
Event Information
Venue(s):
St. Albans Church
Event Type:
Choral
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
26 December 2020
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
31 Oct 1869, MorningCitations
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., 31 October 1869.
“To S. Alban’s this morning…Among the notices for the coming week, was one of ‘High Mass’ tomorrow, being All Saints Day. I do not object, but the adoption of the R. C. vocabulary, where nothing is to be gained by it, seems injudicious. Music abominable—‘more like the song of the sweeps than that of the seraphim.”