Church Music Association Rehearsal

Event Information

Venue(s):
Trinity Chapel School Rooms [W. 25th St.]

Conductor(s):
James Pech

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
17 March 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

29 Nov 1870, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Church Music Association;  Anna Bishop
2)
Mass, H. XXII, 11, D minor. Selections
Composer(s): Haydn
3)
Preciosa, selections
aka Preciosa potpourri
Composer(s): Weber

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 28 November 1870, 2.
2)
: 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., 29 November 1870.

“Am just from C. M. A. rehearsal. Mass from Credo to end of Hosanna, & the little Preciosa choruses. Mme. Anna Bishop attended &, though catarrhal, sang her little solo passages very artistically. As she must be near sixty, her voice is not very fresh, but her execution is beautiful. The charming game-flavored Preciosa music was sung incoherently, on this first trial, but it was good to hear—especially my special pet & delight ‘Es blinken so freundlich die Sterne’ which I have loved dearly ever since the spring of 1831 when Eloise [Lloyd Strong Derby, his half-sister, who now lives in Boston] used to sing its melody arranged as a ballad—something about a ‘Sicilian knight.’”

3)
Announcement: New York Sun, 30 November 1870, 2.

Programme for forthcoming concert.