Trinity Church Trinity Sunday Service

Event Information

Venue(s):
Trinity Church

Conductor(s):
John Paul [organ-comp.] Morgan

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
13 October 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

26 May 1872, Morning

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Orchestra, unidentified;  Trinity Church Choir
2)
Missa brevis, K. 65. Selections
aka Mass, no. 2
Composer(s): Mozart
3)
Anthem, unidentified
Composer(s): Hummel
4)
Symphony, no. 5, op. 67, C minor. Allegro con brio
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., 27 May 1872.

“[Trinity Church:] It was Trinity Sunday—so we had an orchestra & a brilliant service very fairly rendered. It was mostly from Mozart’s Mass, no. 2, Offertory a motett by Hummel. Introit a tame composition by one Garrett. This kind of thing was a novelty to the little ladies [Miss Lucy Derby and a friend], & they enjoyed it—or made believe they did so. Final voluntary was the 1st (!!!) movement of the C minor symphony—a movement of unutterable beauty & force, but as unfit for the finale of a church service as a page of Byron for the peroration of a sermon. Its power & its value consist in its embodiment of a morbid unrest, out of which the succeeding movements carry one, through a stage of glowing & noble aspiration, to triumph & victory over all doubt & evil. Taken alone, it is mere ‘Sturm und Drang.’ But it would be idle to suggest this notion to Morgan or Messiter.”