Venue(s):
Church of the Messiah (1867-1930)
Event Type:
Choral
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
7 May 2022
“…In accordance with the invariable custom the music, that great modern auxiliary to fashionable Christian worship in our great modern religious temples, was very fine—that artistic music congenial to the æsthetic tastes of the congregation meeting here—the music while bearing aloft on the wings of noble song the tired out and fagged soul, made so by the bitter experience, of our rough every-day life and its trials, giving inspiration to hope and to duty the impulse of ennobling purpose; the music that, as much as prayer and sermon, has really as good and Christianizing effect upon church attendants. After an exquisite voluntary, played on the organ with rare skill by Mr. Edward Howe, Jr., the organist, was sung Gloria in Excelsis, from Mozart’s ‘Twelfth Mass,’ with duet by C. F. Whiting and J. R. Thomas. This impassioned musical poem rarely finds more splendid voices for its interpreter. After this was sung the ‘Beatitudes,’ a trio, composed by Mr. Howe, the organist, and certainly a rarely sweet melody, with solos sang surprisingly well by Mrs. Ficker, Miss Rushby and Mr. C. F. Whiting.”