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)

20 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)
: 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., 20 February 1871.

“C. M. A. rehearsal this afternoon was delightful. All the programme was travelled through. House was full—audience silent and interested. Execution of the work very satisfying. I see now what Beethoven meant by the Katy-did ‘Miserere’ in his ‘Dona.’ He wanted to express a trembling, shuddering deprecation of the wrath to come—a prostrate dread & horror that can barely articulate the ‘Miserere,’ & can give it no musical character. Of course this phrase expresses with equal truth the emotions of passage when nearly frightened to death by the storm at sea, and I doubt whether it be a happy invention in Ecclesiastical music.”

3)
Announcement: New-York Times, 21 February 1871, 5.

“The final rehearsal was attended, yesterday, by an audience that crowded the place.”