Trinity Church Ascension Day Service

Event Information

Venue(s):
Trinity Church

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
13 October 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

09 May 1872, 11:00 AM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Dodworth Band;  Trinity Church Choir;  William Henry Cooke [tenor];  Franz Remmertz
2)
Anthem, unidentified
Composer(s): Barnby
3)
Messe solennelle de ste. Cécile, selections
aka St. Cecilia Mass; Saint Cecilia Mass
Composer(s): Gounod
4)
Schöpfung, Die, "Vollendet ist das grosse Werk"
aka Marvellous works; Achieved is the glorious work; Mighty work is done at last
Composer(s): Haydn

Citations

1)
Review: New York Post, 09 May 1872, 4.

“The music was unusually fine.”

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., 09 May 1872.

“To Trinity Church at 10 ½ for Ascension Day service at 11. Kept our pew for Ellie & Jem [Ruggles], etc. & then went & sat in one of the vestry pews, where were some half dozen of that august body church crammed…Music (orchestral) from Gounod’s Mass—introit by Barnby—offertory from the Creation. Decidedly the best orchestral service we have yet enjoyed at Trinity. Even the critical & accurate Mrs. Ellie declared that orchestra & choir did not fail, for a single measure, to keep perfectly together. ‘Sanctus’ of that Mass is most lovely. Rev. Cooke was tenor solo. Remmertz was effective as basso. Miss Madeline Routh sat with Ellie, & was so enthusiastic about the service, afterwards, that I have fallen in love with the young lady, who seems a most warm-hearted genuine little personage.”