Trinity Church Christmas Service Rehearsal

Event Information

Venue(s):
Trinity Church

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
31 October 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

22 Dec 1874, 3:30 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Orchestra, unidentified;  Trinity Church Choir
2)
Mass, D. 950, E-flat major, selections
Composer(s): Schubert
3)
Mass, H. XXII, 3, G major. Kyrie
Composer(s): Haydn

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., 26 October 1874.

“New bell arrived for Trinity chimes—D-flat/sharp.”

2)
: 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., 22 December 1874.

“Loafed about Trinity Church. Tested chimes. Meneely’s new bell won’t do. Its tones suggest a summons to dinner rather than to prayer.

Rehearsal for Christmas music at 3:30 p.m. Did not stay it through. Mostly Schubert’s Mass in E-flat. Offertory—very long—Bach, which I fled. First allegro of Mozart’s B-flat symphony for final voluntary—not at all appropriate. Also ‘Gloria Tibi,’ which made me jump, for it was part of the dearly beloved Kyrie of Haydn’s 1st Mass, whereof the leading phrase has been my pet of pets for thirty years, and which I never heard with orchestra. If the shade of dear old Joseph Haydn will pardon the criticism, it is certainly fitter for a Gloria than for a Kyrie.”