Church Music Association Public Rehearsal

Event Information

Venue(s):
Steinway Hall

Conductor(s):
James Pech

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
9 June 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Apr 1872, 3:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Church Music Association;  Imogene [soprano] Brown
2)
Missa solemnis
Composer(s): Beethoven
3)
Lorelei, Die, op. 98. Selections
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Participants:  Imogene [soprano] Brown
4)
Acis and Galatea, overture
Composer(s): Handel
5)
Undine, overture
Composer(s): Benedict

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 21 April 1872, 4.
2)
Announcement: New-York Times, 24 April 1872, 5.
3)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 25 April 1872, 5.
4)
Announcement: New York Herald, 25 April 1872, 6.

Beethoven’s Mass in D one of the most interesting features of the forthcoming programme; announcement of today’s rehearsal.

5)
Review: New York Post, 30 April 1872, 2.

“The last rehearsal of the Church Music Association was one of unusual brilliancy. The entire building, Steinway Hall, was crowded to excess with many of the most distinguished members of our art, literary and social circles. The orchestra, chorus and solos were also in great force, numbering, we should think, not less than some three hundred performers. Beethoven’s Mass in D was, of course, the principal attraction, and very admirably the vocal and instrumental performers, under the direction of Dr. James Pech, executed their parts. There were also two overtures given—‘Acis and Galatea’and ‘Undine.’ Mrs. Imogene Brown also sang in the music of ‘Lorelei,’ by Mendelssohn. A little more attack and precision in singing her part will make this one of the most agreeable features on the evening of the concert.”