Trinity Church Christmas Service Rehearsal

Event Information

Venue(s):
Trinity Church

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
13 October 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 Dec 1872, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Mass, op. 80, E-flat major
aka Mass, no. 2
Composer(s): Hummel

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., 23 December 1872.

“Evening service & Trinity—& their rehearsal of the Christmas music—viz., a choral introit, working up the melody of Adeste fidelis very gracefully & nearly the whole of Hummel’s Mass in E-flat. I say nothing of the orchestral finale, a rubbishy movement from a ‘symphony’ by Morgan the saffron-hued—the Maestro of the Bilious Countenance. The Mass seems very solid & handsome, & the rehearsal was much less bad than usual. Some members of the orchestra were absent, so Johny & Temple took the first ‘cello & oboe parts, & did their little solo passages, at eight, & very handsomely, I thought.”