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)

21 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. Selections
Composer(s): Beethoven
3)
Oberon, selections
Composer(s): Weber

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., 21 March 1870.

“With Ellie to Trinity Chapel Schoolhouse rehearsal. Very large attendance & two hours of hard work, devoted to the four movements of Beethoven’s Gloria—the first two of his Credo & a pretty chorus from Oberon. The Beethoven Mass finds great favor—much greater than I expected. It is preferred to Mozart’s No. 12 & Haydn’s 16th. Glad of it—but the only points in it that hit me hard as yet—are the opening of the Kyrie & of the Gloria—the Et incarnatus—the Sanctus—the Dona pacem. It seems to me, as a whole without the freshness & inspiration of an average specimen of Haydn or Mozart’s ecclesiastical work.

Three of Johny’s college friends are enrolled in the chorus—Frank Work, Gus Pisson, & Val Blacque.”