Sunday Services: Grand Musical Performance by Pupils of Manhattan College

Event Information

Venue(s):
St. Patrick's Cathedral (Mott Street)

Conductor(s):
Ferdinand Amend
Professor Danz

Event Type:
Choral, Orchestral

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 June 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Jun 1864

Program Details

Performances by Thomas Lynch, William Lynch, Lawrence McElligott, John Kean, John Lyons, Pedro Rafael and other pupils of Manhattan College. Twenty-six of the juvenile musicians acted as vocalists, and the balance acted as an orchestra.

NOTE: Kyrie and Gloria, in D minor contained several solos and choruses.
Prayer Before Sermon was performed by eight members of the band.


Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Orchestra, unidentified;  Professor Danz;  Thomas [vocalist] Lynch;  William [vocalist] Lynch;  Lawrence McElligott;  John J. [vocalist] Kean;  John P. [vocalist] Lyons;  Pedro Rafael
2)
Mass, D minor, selections
Composer(s): Leonce
3)
Mass, op. 80, E-flat major, selections
aka Mass, no. 2
Composer(s): Hummel
4)
Mass, op. 80, E-flat major, selections
aka Mass, no. 2
Composer(s): Hummel
5)
Athalie, "Kriegsmarsch der Priester"
aka Athalia; Athalie. War march; Athalie. Presto march
Composer(s): Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Participants:  Orchestra, unidentified
6)
"Ave Maria"
Composer(s): Cherubini
Participants:  Professor Danz;  Thomas [vocalist] Lynch

Citations

1)
Review: New York Herald, 20 June 1864, 4.
“Twenty-six of the juvenile musicians acted as vocalists, and the balance acted as an orchestra, with some twenty-two instruments.  The music, both vocal and instrumental, if not faultless, was highly creditable to the performers, considering their extreme youth, none of them being over sixteen years of age. . . . The mass selected was the composition of brother Leonce, a member of the Order of the Christian Brothers.”