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:
14 September 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

20 Apr 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., 20 April 1870.

“Trinity Chapel Schoolhouse tonight. C. M. A., Beethoven, Benedictus, Agnus, Dona, choruses from Oberon. Very satisfactory, though the attendance was not large. Only one thing in this Mass I have not yet learned to like, viz., the passage in the Dona where the word Miserere is taken up by one part after another, & spoken rather than sung. Edmund tries to make the ‘Crucifixus’ in Mozart, No. 12 an analogy & a precedent—but it is not. I regret to say that this Miserere reminds me of nothing but the Katy-did—Katy-didn’t of a September bog.”