Church Music Association Public Rehearsal

Event Information

Venue(s):
Steinway Hall

Conductor(s):
James Pech

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
8 October 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

11 Apr 1871, 4:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Church Music Association;  Anna Bishop;  William S. [tenor] Leggat;  Franz Remmertz;  Clara [contralto] Perl
2)
Muette de Portici, La, overture
aka Masaniello; Mute Girl of Portici; Stumme von Portici
Composer(s): Auber
3)
Messe solennelle
Composer(s): Niedermeyer
4)
Sommernachtstraum, Ein
aka Midsummer night's dream
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 11 April 1871, 7.

First public rehearsal for the third concert. 

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., 11 April 1871.

“First public rehearsal for 3rd concert for 2nd season of C. M. A., 4 p.m. Fair attendance. Result satisfactory. The best quartette by far that we have yet secured, viz.: Mme. Anna Bishop, Clara Perl (Schulhoff), Leggat & Remmertz (late of Trinity Church Choir). It’s admirable—and it has much to do in the Niedermeyer Mass. Leggat astonished me by his rendering of the Gratias animus & the offertory (‘O salutaris hostia’). The exquisite quartette passages that follow the ‘Gratias’—their beautiful serene ‘Cujus regni non erit finis’—and ‘Dona pacem’ came out with perfect clearness. The Benedictus, the choral phrase of the Credo, and the Agnus Dei are exceeding pungent.”