Trinity Church Sunday Service
Event Information
Venue(s):
Trinity Church
Conductor(s):
A. H. Messiter
Event Type:
Choral
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
14 September 2025
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
06 Nov 1870, MorningCitations
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., 06 November 1870.
“Ellie not quite well this morning, but it was a lovely day, & we fared down to Trinity. Vinton preached Vintoniously. Messiter has certainly got his choir well in hand. They did their work brilliantly—pity it had not been better worth the care & diligence our Kapell-Meister had bestowed on it. The Anglican anthem (forget its composer’s name) was a favorable specimen of its dreary school. The writer seemed to have a thought or idea underlying its highly respectable & accurate chords, a thought of no great worth, feebly expressed, but still tangible.”