Organ Concert: 15th

Event Information

Venue(s):
Church of the Holy Trinity

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo)

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
11 August 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 Feb 1875, 4:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Stephen Austen Pearce;  Sarah Woods
2)
Work, organ, unidentified
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
3)
Prophète, Le, "Marche du sacre"
aka Prophete. Coronation march; Grand processional march; Krönungsmarsch; Crowning march
Composer(s): Meyerbeer
4)
Schöpfung, Die, "Nun beut die Flur das frische Grün"
aka "With verdure clad"; Schopfung, Die. Nun beut die Flur das frische Grun
Composer(s): Haydn
Participants:  Sarah Woods
5)
Vom Fels zum Meer
aka Victory march; March of victory; From crag to sea
Composer(s): Liszt
6)
Symphonies. Selections
Composer(s): Beethoven
7)
Eli, "I will extol thee, O Lord"
Composer(s): Costa
Participants:  Sarah Woods
8)
Oberon, overture
Composer(s): Weber
9)
Work, unidentified
Composer(s): Schumann
10)
Zampa, overture
aka Introduction
Composer(s): Hérold

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 23 February 1875, 7.
2)
Announcement: New York Post, 23 February 1875, 2.

Includes program. 

3)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 25 February 1875, 6.

“The fifteenth of the weekly organ concerts at the Church of the Holy Trinity was given yesterday, the performer being Dr. S. Austen Pearce. The programme was somewhat lighter than the fine one offered by Mr. Warren last week, but, as will be seen from the following list of pieces [see above], good classical music largely predominated.

Most of these selections require a complete mastery of the instrument to be at all effective, and Dr. Pearce played them all from memory both with ease and with taste. The Larghetto from the second Symphony of Beethoven, and the Funeral March (from the 12th sonata) were especially admired for their gracefulness and correct sentiment, while in such pieces as the Coronation March and the two overtures the player exhibited a brilliant concert style. The beautiful qualities of Mr. Roosevelt’s organ were well displayed, and the variety and richness of the solo stops, especially the four or five flutes, the oboe, and a very smooth and telling clarinet, were thrown into strong relief. In loud passages remarkable distinctness is obtained by the ingenious electro-melody attachment, which enables the organist to add at will any or all of five different registers to the upper note of the chord only; and another admirable effect is produced by including five registers of the great organ in the swell-box, so that a magnificent crescendo can be obtained which would be impossible under the usual system. This improvement was well exhibited by Dr. Pearce in his opening voluntary.”