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:
7 October 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

14 Mar 1871, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Church Music Association
2)
Messe solennelle, selections
Composer(s): Niedermeyer

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., 14 March 1871.

“The Mass was sung from Qui tollis to end, and it was a thorough & good rehearsal. It is naturally very much liked. Most of the chorus seem to prefer it to anything we have done. One can’t call it operatic or undignified. Many phrases occur in Haydn & Mozart that are far more secular (one might say more trivial) than anything in the Niedermeyer—but this last certainly seems somehow sensuous as compared with. I except & don’t care for the very dry archaic ‘Quoniam,’ but the rest of the Mass suggests a semi-tropical landscape by moonlight.”