Event Information

Venue(s):
St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church

Conductor(s):
S. J. [organist] Gilbert

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
30 April 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Dec 1873, Morning

Program Details

Walters’s “Thy seat, O God!” was “composed for this occasion.”

The only citation to provide individual performer names is the New York Post announcement, which lists a “Madame Buckley;” Music in Gotham assumes this was contralto Anna R. Bulkley (though it is also possible it was Hattie E. Bulkley, also in our database).

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, choir;  Joseph Weinlich;  Madame Coletti;  Maria [soprano] Salvotti;  H. R. Romeyn [tenor];  J. A. [tenor] MacDonnell;  Franz Remmertz;  Anna R. [contralto] Bulkley;  S. J. [organist] Gilbert;  Mrs. Henry Butman
2)
"Thy seat, O God!"
Composer(s): Walters
3)
Gloria, no. 1, E major
Composer(s): Warren
4)
Gloria, no. 2, F major
Composer(s): Carozzi
5)
Gloria in excelsis, A-flat major
Composer(s): Andre
6)
Te Deum, C major
Composer(s): Frey
7)
Jubilate, D major
aka Festival
Composer(s): Buck
8)
Elijah, "Lift thine eyes"
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
9)
Kyrie
Composer(s): Gilbert
10)
Gloria tibi
Composer(s): Hauck
11)
"O’er Bethlehem’s hill the mystic star"
aka Bright shown the stars o’er Bethlehem’s plain
Composer(s): Hauck
12)
Messiah, "People that walked in darkness, The"
Composer(s): Handel
13)
Messiah, "For unto us a child is born"
Composer(s): Handel
14)
Petite Messe solennelle, "Sanctus"
Composer(s): Rossini
15)
Gloria in excelsis
Composer(s): Jackson
16)
Work, unidentified
Composer(s): Gilbert

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Post, 24 December 1873, 4.

“The programme of music at this church will be sung by the double quartet and chorus choir. It includes [lists works] and appropriate Christmas carols. This choir includes among its members Madames Butman, Salvotti, Buckley [sic] and Coletti, and Messrs. Romeyn, Macdonnell, Remmertz and Weinlich. Organist, S. J. Gilbert.”

2)
Announcement: New York Herald, 25 December 1873, 6.
3)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 26 December 1873, 1.

“…The musical programme was long, varied, and of high merit, and was brilliant in its rendering by a choir which included several singers of note, under S. I. Gilbert, the organist. The Processional ‘They Seat, O God,’ by Walters, was composed for the occasion.” Lists works performed.