Church of the Messiah Sunday Service

Event Information

Venue(s):
Church of the Messiah (1867-1930)

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
28 May 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

15 May 1870, Morning

Program Details

Music in Gotham assumes the soprano “Mrs. Ficker” cited in the New York Herald review to be Johanna Ficher, some years prior a singer with the Maretzek Italian Opera.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Church of the Messiah, choir;  Johanna Ficher
2)
Mass, K. Anh. 233, B-flat major. Selection
aka Mass, no. 7, selection
Composer(s): Mozart
3)
Te Deum
Composer(s): Unknown composer

Citations

1)
Review: New York Herald, 16 May 1870, 3.

Describes musical portion of a baptismal service that occurred before the sermon. “…After a voluntary on the organ from Mozart’s Seventh Mass, the grandly swelling Te Deum upon the organ and the singing by the whole choir of this masterly piece of sacred music was the signal for the opening of the regular services. After this ‘I Will Arise and Go to my father,’ with soprano solo by Mrs. Ficker [sic], was exquisitely sung.”