Oratorio Society of New York Rehearsal: Messiah

Event Information

Venue(s):
Steinway Hall

Conductor(s):
Leopold Damrosch

Event Type:
Choral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
31 October 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

23 Dec 1874

Program Details

No time given.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Messiah
Composer(s): Handel
Participants:  Oratorio Society of New York;  Brooklyn Handel and Haydn Society;  George Simpson;  Samuel P. Warren [organ];  Anna Drasdil;  A. E. [baritone] Stoddard;  Abbie Whinery

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 23 December 1874, 4.
2)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 25 December 1874, 5.

“…We had the pleasure of hearing their last full rehearsal the other day at Steinway Hall, and it was full of promise. Two or three hundred singers were in the chorus, but many more are expected to present themselves to-night…”