Church Music Association Public Rehearsal

Event Information

Venue(s):
Steinway Hall

Conductor(s):
James Pech

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
13 September 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

08 Feb 1870, 4:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Church Music Association
2)
Mass, H. XXII, 12, B-flat major
aka Mass, no. 16
Composer(s): Haydn
3)
Lobgesang, selections
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

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., 08 February 1870.

“I feared our C. M. A. rehearsal at Steinway Hall 4 p. m. would prove a lamentable failure, and there were, to be sure, not more than fifty or sixty in the auditorium. But the amateurs of the chorus turned out in force, considering the weather, especially those ladies, the influence of whose example is valuable, & Haydn’s Mass and part of the Lobgesang were thoroughly well done.

Any performance of this Mass, without the principals, (whose work is interwoven with almost every chorus) is necessarily fragmentary & scrappy. I was therefore the more pleased to hear Morgan Dix express his supreme delight with the music, which was new to him. He “thought it compared with Mozart’s as milk punch with mild water.” That’s a little unfair to No. 12, but there is a certain heartiness, raciness, & game flavor in No. 16 which does not exist in the former.”