Trinity Church Christmas Eve Service

Event Information

Venue(s):
Trinity Church

Event Type:
Chamber (includes Solo), Choral

Performance Forces:
Instrumental

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 July 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

24 Dec 1864, 2:30 PM

Program Details

Program included “choral and instrumental parts” performed by “musicians and singers.”

There may have been two separate concerts, one with “musicians and singers” and one with Ayliffe. R: NYH 12/25/64, p. 1 is unclear on the point.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  James E. Ayliffe
2)
Rondo, with variations in major and minor keys
Composer(s): Bristow
3)
"Children of the temple, The"
4)
"Evening bells"
Composer(s): Unknown composer
5)
"Silent night, holy night"
aka Stille Nacht gwv145
Composer(s): Gruber
6)
"Christmas tree, The [Ogilby]"
Composer(s): Ogilby
7)
"Once in royal David's city"
aka Irby
Composer(s): Gauntlett
Text Author: Alexander [poet/lyricist]

Citations

1)
Announcement: New York Herald, 23 December 1864, 4.

Program.

2)
Review: New York Herald, 25 December 1864, 1.

“The annual Christmas services at Old Trinity brought together a full audience; for all the friends of the old church mustered in force in honor of the day, a few of them being merely annual representatives of devotion to the church, and those, with the regular attendants, so filled the place that it could hold no more.

       The services were of the most interesting kind.  The choral and instrumental parts were perfect in every respect.  Old Trinity seems to improve with age.  The musicians and singers deserve the higest praise for what they yesterday achieved.  At half-past two o’clock in the afternoon, Mr. Ayliffe, the chimer, commenced ringing the following chimes on the Trinity bells.”

       Follows with same program as listed on 12/23/64, p. 4.