Organ Concert: 23rd

Event Information

Venue(s):
Church of the Holy Trinity

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo)

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
14 September 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

21 Apr 1875, 4:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Samuel P. Warren [organ];  Adolph Sohst;  Josephine T. Losee
2)
Sonata, organ, G minor
Composer(s): Merkel
Participants:  Josephine T. Losee
3)
Suite, orchestra, no. 6, op. 150, Marsch
Composer(s): Lachner
Participants:  Josephine T. Losee
4)
Toccata, organ, F major
Composer(s): Bach
Participants:  Josephine T. Losee
5)
Concerto, organ, F major, unidentified
Composer(s): Handel
Participants:  Samuel P. Warren [organ]
6)
Symphony, no. 2, op. 61, C major. Adagio
Composer(s): Schumann
Participants:  Samuel P. Warren [organ]
7)
Tannhäuser, "O du mein holder Abendstern"
aka Abendstern; Song to the evening star; Romance to the evening star; Lied an den Abendstern; Tannhauser, O du mein holder Abendstern; Wie Todesahnung
Composer(s): Wagner
Participants:  Adolph Sohst
8)
Legende von der heiligen Elisabeth, Die, aria
Composer(s): Liszt
Participants:  Adolph Sohst

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 20 April 1875, 11.
2)
Announcement: New York Post, 20 April 1875, 2.

Includes program.

3)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 23 April 1875, 7.

“At this concert Wednesday afternoon (the twenty-third of the season) the organists were Miss Losee and Mr. S. P. Warren, with Mr. Adolph Sohst as vocalist. The programme was well selected, and comprised a number of organ pieces of the best class. Miss Losee made a very favorable impression. Mr. Sohst gave a graceful rendering of the ‘Evening Star’ song from Tannhäuser, but his greatest success was in the magnificent bass aria from Liszt’s ‘St. Elizabeth.’ Mr. Warren played Handel’s Concerto in F, a transcription of the adagio from Schumann’s C Symphony, and an improvisation. Mr. Warren can scarcely have too much credit for his work in these organ concerts during the past Winter. We have plenty of good organists (of which he is one of the best), and there is no lack of good music for the organ, but the public taste is so far below what it should be that we scarcely ever hear it. This taste it has been Mr. Warren’s earnest and persevering effort to raise, and it is gratifying to know that the concerts have been successful beyond the hopes of their originator, and that the audiences have steadily improved, both in numbers and appreciativeness.”