Church Music Association Rehearsal

Event Information

Venue(s):
Steinway Hall

Conductor(s):
James Pech

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
20 September 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Feb 1871, 3:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Church Music Association;  Pietro Centemeri;  William S. [tenor] Leggat;  Mrs. Philip [soprano] Gulager;  Mme. [contralto] Krebs-Michalesi
2)
Mass, op. 86, C major
Composer(s): Beethoven
3)
Jahreszeiten, Die, "Frühling"
aka Spring
Composer(s): Haydn
4)
Jubel-Ouvertüre
aka Festival overture
Composer(s): Lindpaintner

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 14 February 1871, 4.
2)
Review: New York Post, 15 February 1871, 2.

“A great effect was produced at the rehearsal at Steinway Hall yesterday afternoon by the performance of a stirring and resonant festival overture by Lindpaintner, which is to open the programme of the next concert. It is a masterly orchestral elaboration of the air of ‘God Save the Queen,’ and for a first performance was well rendered. Beethoven’s Mass in C was also rehearsed, the well-trained voice and admirable school of Madame Michalesi- Krebs lending effect to the quartet passages in which Mr. Gulager, Mr. Leggatt and Mr. Centemeri took part. In the Mass and in the ‘Spring’ music of Haydn’s ‘Season’s the chorus was hardly up to the mark, but will be all right before the concert takes place.”