Easter Services at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church

Event Information

Venue(s):
St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church

Conductor(s):
Clare William Beames

Event Type:
Choral

Performance Forces:
Instrumental, Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
14 June 2016

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

16 Apr 1865, 10:30 AM
16 Apr 1865, 3:30 PM

Program Details

Included a hymn performed as an anthem that was arranged from a work by Mozart. “Grand Anthem with solos, ‘Christ our Passover,’” performed instead of the “Venite.” These services may have been canceled because of Lincoln’s assassination, but we have yet to find an announcement confirming a cancellation.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  George W. [bass] Van Siclem;  Maria Scoville Brainerd;  Clare William Beames;  Virginia [contralto] Tucker;  Alexander [tenor] Rohberg
2)
Anthems. Selections
Composer(s): Beames
3)
Anthems. Selections
Composer(s): Beames
4)
Anthems. Selections
Composer(s): Beames
5)
Messiah, "I know that my Redeemer liveth"
Composer(s): Handel
Participants:  Maria Scoville Brainerd
6)
Stabat Mater, "Inflammatus et accensus"
Composer(s): Rossini
Participants:  Maria Scoville Brainerd
7)
Voluntary, organ, unidentified
Composer(s): Unknown composer
8)
Anthems. Selections
Composer(s): Beames
9)
Hymn, unidentitied
10)
Te Deum
Composer(s): Gunter [composer]

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 15 April 1865.

     Program. Lists chorus members. “The sermon will be preached by the Rector, the Rev. Dr. Samuel Cooke. The music, under Dr. Clare W. Beames, will be as follows: [program]. A brilliant and appropriate selection of music will be sung.”