Trinity Church Sunday Service

“To Trinity...Music tolerable.  Anthem ‘He was despised and rejected’ from the Messiah (very well rendered by little Grandin) to which was appended certain choral commonplaces by some Anglican composer.  So the Anthem was made up of gold and clay, or perhaps more properly, of mud.  It is astounding that an educated musician like our kapell-meister should have the audacity--the impudence--to produce this noble touching heart-breaking melody of Handel’s in connection with trash by Smith, Jones or Robinson in A.B.C.or D.  This trash, as I call it, is simply unmeaning.  It suggests nothing, and is nothing.  It is to Mozart’s and Hadyn’s Religious Music what the nonsense of a school-boy’s exercises are to poetry.  Coming after Handel, it is like a little bit of Martin J Tupper tacked on to a chapter of Isaiah.  Amazing that any man could venture to combine them into an anthem.”