Lecture on "Music in Worship"

Event Information

Venue(s):
Alanson Methodist Episcopal Church

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
27 November 2023

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Jan 1872, Afternoon

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Eben Tourjée

Citations

1)
Review: New York Herald, 22 January 1872, 5.

Hymns should be selected appropriate for congregational singing; author’s attendance at a church in Berlin; importance of teaching children to sing; need for better tunes; objections to borrowings from secular music; hymn-singing at the conclusion of the lecture, accompanied by organ and brass instruments; Eben Tourjée, lecturer, from Boston.