Church Music Association Rehearsal

Event Information

Venue(s):
Trinity Chapel School Rooms [W. 25th St.]

Conductor(s):
James Pech

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 September 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Jan 1870, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Church Music Association
2)
Lobgesang
aka Hymn of praise; Symphony, no. 2, op. 52, cantata; Symphony, no. 2, op. 52. Lobgesang
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
3)
Mass, H. XXII, 12, B-flat major. Selections
Composer(s): Haydn

Citations

1)
: Strong, George Templeton. New-York Historical Society. The Diaries of George Templeton Strong, 1863-1869: Musical Excerpts from the MSs, transcribed by Mary Simonson. ed. by Christopher Bruhn., 19 January 1870.

“Second drill meeting of C. M. A. chorus tonight. A room full. New acceptions—the Miss Finns (sister of Mrs. G. C. A.), Mrs. Ella Hurlbut, (née Childs), Mrs. Jenny Kempton & many more. It is pleasant to hear the gratification many of our young fashionable amateurs, like Horace Berry, nice singers by rote of arias by Verdi & Donizetti, express at being let down to so real music as members of a chorus under a rigorous conductor & their delight in the discovery that there is something in music beyond mere vocalization.

They executed the ponderous Lobgesang chorus, and Haydn’s Mass to the end of the Qui tollis.”