Grace Church: Easter Services

Event Information

Venue(s):
Grace Church

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
13 February 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 Apr 1870, 11:00 AM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  George Simpson;  Julia Bodstein;  Samuel P. Warren [organ]
2)
"Christ our Passover"
Composer(s): Morgan
Participants:  Julia Bodstein
3)
Te Deum
Composer(s): Warren [organ]
Participants:  George Simpson
4)
Messiah, "Comfort ye, my people"
Composer(s): Handel
Participants:  George Simpson

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 16 April 1870, 5.
2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 17 April 1870, 8.

Merely notes that Warren is the organist of Grace Church and will perform at this Mass.

3)
Review: New York Sun, 18 April 1870, 1.

“…Morgan’s ‘Christ our Passover’ was superbly rendered by Madame Bodstein, soprano. The ‘Te Deum,’ by Warren, and Handel’s ‘Comfort ye my People,’ sung by Simpson, were magnificent.”