Church Music Association Public Rehearsal

Event Information

Venue(s):
Steinway Hall

Conductor(s):
James Pech

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
7 October 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

31 Jan 1871, 4:00 PM

Program Details

First public rehearsal for the second concert of the season.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Church Music Association;  Jennie Kempton
2)
Mass, op. 86, C major
Composer(s): Beethoven
3)
Jahreszeiten, Die, "Frühling"
aka Spring
Composer(s): Haydn

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 30 January 1871, 5.
2)
Announcement: New York Post, 01 February 1871, 1.
“…Dr. Pech, the conductor of this society, has prepared for this concert another of those admirable little brochures called programmes, but which, both for their literary and typographical merit, deserve a more pretentious name. the forthcoming programme contains careful analyses of the two great works to be performed at the next concert.
 
[Provides lengthy preview of the program notes.] 
 
We may add here that such descriptive programmes would be a vast aid to the enjoyment of the Philharmonic and other more elaborate concerts which are given in this city.”
3)
: 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., 01 February 1871.

“But the undaunted chorus of C. M. A. turned out in force [despite the weather] for rehearsal at Steinway yesterday afternoon. Miss Sterling made default, & nice good-natured Mrs. Jenny Kempton took her place. The quartette was charming—choral work promising—audience moderate. Pech in a twitter about Miss Sterling, of course. He scents plots & intrigues, & says ‘Don’t you see that someone is stabbing us through Miss Sterling?’ etc. I have a note from that lady this evening. Not very definite or satisfactory. We can do without her. Evening Post publishes long extracts from our critical notices of the Beethoven Mass & of Haydn, with commendation. I’m glad Pech gets any credit from them.”