Grace Church Sunday Service

Event Information

Venue(s):
Grace Church

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 July 2022

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 May 1870, Morning

Program Details

No specific time given, but the New York Herald review notes that: “[a]t an hour when the services are nearly at an end in most of the city churches, the attettanti audience of fashionable worshippers who adorn Grace church [sic] began to enter its sacred portals.”

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Grace Church Choir
2)
"Venite"
Composer(s): Morgan
3)
Gloria
Composer(s): Spohr
4)
Te Deum
Composer(s): Mosenthal
5)
Psalm 5
Composer(s): Greatorex [unidentified]

Citations

1)
Review: New York Herald, 30 May 1870, 3.

“…There seems to be two distinct acts of hearers at this famous place of worship, one of which come to hear the preaching and one

“to hear the music.

“For full three-fourths of an hour the latter class listened with every token of delight as the heavy peal of the organ echoed in the vaulted roof and through the naves, and the carefully executed solos of basso, soprano and contralto seemed to ravish their senses quite. The following programme was performed:—[lists program]; and at its conclusion [illeg.] few of those who had been most wrapt [sic] listening [illeg…] and retired, evidently believing that the influence of the music would go far enough towards purifying their minds and preparing them for prayer and meditation.”