Trinity Church Christmas Service

Event Information

Venue(s):
Trinity Church

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
17 November 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Dec 1872, 10:30 AM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Orchestra, unidentified;  Trinity Church Choir;  James E. Ayliffe;  John Paul [organ-comp.] Morgan;  A. H. Messiter
2)
Ringing the changes on eight bells
3)
"Christmas is come again"
4)
"Christmas guest"
5)
"Ring the bells for Christmas morn"
6)
"Ring out the bells"
Composer(s): Hodges
7)
Mass, op. 80, E-flat major
aka Mass, no. 2
Composer(s): Hummel
8)
"Venite"
Composer(s): Warren [organ]
9)
Faust, "Gloire immortelle de nos aieux"
aka Gloria
Composer(s): Gounod
10)
Te Deum
Composer(s): Warren [organ]
11)
Jubilate, E-flat
Composer(s): Buck
12)
"King all glorious"
Composer(s): Barnby
13)
Kyrie
Composer(s): Goss

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 25 December 1872, 10.

Includes the order of service.

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., 25 December 1872.

“Christmas, [Trinity Church]: Johny & Temple were with the orchestra. Church crowded. Orchestra good—& chorus good—soli weak—instruments & voices so far apart that it is wonderful the music goes at all. The Hummel Mass far too elaborate & difficult. Performance as a whole crude & tentative.”

3)
: 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., 04 January 1873.

[Trinity Church] music committee at 4. We talked over things in general. I am informally authorized to tell Messiter that he must give us no more works so heavy & elaborate as Hummel’s Mass no. 2, which is beyond the capacity of choir & orchestra, especially when separated by so wide a distance, & that he must, for the present, at least, confine himself to the melodic & comparatively early church music of Haydn & Mozart, which is understood by everyone. I am also to consult [Richard] Upjohn about a temporary gallery for the orchestra in the north aisle, near the chancel.