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:
13 September 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

07 Mar 1870, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Church Music Association
2)
Mass, op. 86, C major
Composer(s): Beethoven

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., 07 March 1870.

“First rehearsal tonight of Beethoven’s Mass in C at Trinity Chapel Schoolhouse. With Ellie, Miss Allieu, & Miss Emily. Very fair attendance, considering foul weather & bad walking. Mass read through with many repeats. Performance sagged, of course, & Pech addressed a vigorous allocution to his legions on the necessity of fidelity at rehearsals. Opening & finale are exquisite. Gloria, Credo, Et incarnatus, Et resurrexit, Sanctus, are of very high grade. But I do not believe we can justly appreciate this work, of all others, till we hear it with an orchestra. It seems to me to require a far more highly trained faculty of appreciation than Mozart’s 12th or Haydn’s 16th, & was surprised that many, to whom it was new, spoke of it so enthusiastically.”