Private Musical Evening

Event Information

Venue(s):
Residence of George Templeton Strong

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
11 July 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

30 May 1865, Evening

Program Details

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Master Cullin P. Grandin [boy contralto]; Ellen Ruggles Strong; Frank Vinton

2)

Mass, unidentified. Selection

Composer(s): Haydn

3)

Mass, unidentified. Selection

Composer(s): Mozart

4)

Mass, H. XXII, 9, C major. Agnus Dei and Dona Nobis

aka Mass, no. 2

Composer(s): Haydn

5)

LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)

Participants: Master Cullin P. Grandin [boy contralto]

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., 30 May 1865.

"Music tonight. Young Frank Vinton, his friends, Pearson and Meyer, and little Grandin, a choir boy of Trinity Church. With Ellie they did justice to Sunday gems from Haydn’s and Mozart’s Masses--among them that noble finale of Haydn’s no. 2 and Dona pacem most appropriate in these days."