Trinity Church Sunday Service

Event Information

Venue(s):
Trinity Church

Event Type:
Choral, Orchestral

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 July 2020

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

28 Jan 1866, Morning

Performers and/or Works Performed

Citations

1)
: Kellogg, Gertrude. New-York Historical Society. The Diaries of Gertrude Kellogg, transcribed by Katherine K. Preston, amplified by Christopher Bruhn., 28 January 1866.

     “The anthem was lovely B one of the hymns, ‘Guide me, O thou great Jehovah’ B arranged as a solo and chorus B very adagio.  Solo was that nice little Ehrlich, who is just about losing his voice, [illeg.] tells me.  But he showed no sign of its coming loss and sang with a sweetness and purity of expression and a quality of voice such as I have seldom heard.  Indeed it's seldom any music has touched me so.  Old D. Hodges B now in England, would have shuddered had he known what the choir of Trinity was doing.  For their anthem was arranged or adapted from a pretty melody in Flotow's Martha!  Not of a masculine school, but such music is pleasant now and then as a change.  And our nice looking, well behaved surpliced choir boys always do full justice to a plain chorale.  This Hymn is fortunate, for it has been allied to another and a far nobler melody, ‘Einsam bin ich nicht allein’ from Weber's Preciosa.”