Christ Church Christmas Day Service

Event Information

Venue(s):
Christ Church

Conductor(s):
James [organist/cond.] Pearce

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
30 April 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

25 Dec 1873, 10:30 AM

Program Details

Works by Pearce included his Anthem and Sanctus.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Christ Church Choir;  James [organist/cond.] Pearce
2)
Work, unidentified
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Participants:  James [organist/cond.] Pearce
3)
Works, vocal. Selections
Composer(s): Pearce
Participants:  James [organist/cond.] Pearce
4)
Te Deum laudamus
Composer(s): Barnby
5)
Jubilate, unidentified
Composer(s): Sullivan
6)
"Let us now go even unto Bethlehem"
Composer(s): Hopkins
7)
"Adeste fidelis"
aka O come all ye faithful
Composer(s): Wade

Citations

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

“…The musical service will be rendered by the usual choir of boys.”

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

Lists works performed. “The musical services were rendered by the regular boy-choir of 30 voices, under the direction of James Pearce, organist.”