Forthcoming departure of the former organist at Trinity Church for California due to ill health. 

“A musical entertainment, actable for its variety and for the kindly feeling which prompted it, took place last night at the Rev. Mr. Hepworth’s church. The affair was intended for the benefit of Mr. J. P. Morgan, late associate organist of Trinity church, and now an invalid; and all the performers, both professional and amateur, volunteered their services. The programme opened with Weber’s Mass in G, a number of the members of the Church Music Association singing the choruses, while the solos were allotted to Mrs. Gulager, Miss Barron, Mr. Remmertz, and Mr. Kampsing. Mr. C. E. Horsley conducted, and Mr. Henry Carter played the organ accompaniments. The performers were all unsuitably placed in relation to each other and to the audience, and sang under peculiar disadvantages; and it was probably owing to this that there was a lack of precision at the starting of the various choruses. Yet, on the whole, the Mass was rendered in a meritorious style, the Benedictus by the quartet and the Dona Nobis (in which Miss Barron and Mrs. Gulager sang well their prominent parts) eliciting the most applause.

A miscellaneous concert followed the mass. Mr. A. H. Messiter in a fantasia by R. P. Stewart, and Mr. George W. Morgan in his ‘Home’ overture, originally written for the Musical Fund Society, showed to advantage the various stops of the organ and their own command of the instrument. Master George Magrath, a young pianist of rare promise, played on a Steinway organ Thalberg’s ‘Don Giovanni’ fantasia, exhibiting unusual ability. When the sentiment which will probably come with maturer years shall be added to his facility of execution his name will stand high in the list of our pianists. Mr. Carl Feininger, the violinist, played Ernst’s arrangement of Hungarian airs, and like Master Magrath was warmly encored. This gentleman has in his wife a skillful and finished accompanist, who always plays with him at concerts, and always plays well. The boys and men of Trinity choir sang ‘The Wilderness,’ a fine anthem by Goss—a work written in a highly dramatic style, and interesting to the musician if not to the general auditor. Indeed, the auditors of last evening seemed to be charmed with the singing of Mrs. Gulager (who selected the Penzano waltz and Eckert’s Swiss song) more than with anything else on the long and varied programme. Mrs. Gulager is an established favorite with New York audiences, and will deservedly retain her position while she sings as well as she did last night.

Before the “Hallelujah Chorus’ with which the concert closed, Mr. Carter thanked the artists and the members of the chorus for their aid, and announced that the concert would result in a profit to the absent beneficiary of about $500.”