Event Information

Venue(s):
St. John’s Episcopal Church

Conductor(s):
Charles Edward Horsley

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
30 April 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Dec 1873, Morning

Program Details

No time is given in the citations. Music in Gotham assumes this service took place in the morning.

Works by Gilbert included his Te Deum and Jubilate, both in B-flat.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  St. John's Episcopal Church, choir
2)
Works, vocal. Selections
Composer(s): Gilbert
3)
Festgesang, no. 2. Vaterland in deinen Gauen
aka Hark! the herald angels sing
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
4)
Communion service, E-flat
Composer(s): Cooke [tenor]
5)
Messiah, "Comfort ye, my people"
Composer(s): Handel
6)
Messiah, "And the glory of the Lord"
Composer(s): Handel

Citations

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

“…The musical part of the services will be under the direction of Mr. C. F. Horsley, the organist of the church, and will be sung by a choir of men and boys and by the Rev. W. H. Cooke. [Lists works.]

The large organ for this chapel, now in process of construction by Mr. Eben, not being completed, a Mason & Hamlin organ is at present used in the services.”

2)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 26 December 1873, 1.

Brief. “At St. Johns’ Church (P. E.), on Varick-st.…[a] well selected musical programme was performed by the regular choir, led by Charles E. Horsley, the organist.”