The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-25
MUSIC AT THE CHURCHES.

Many Changes of Interest in the Church Choirs-Changes at Dwight Place, Hum phrey street and Vari us Other Churches. Miss Mary Lynch will sing alto to Miss Florence Loomis' soprano at the Dwight Place church. She has been for the last ten years with St. Mary's church and has made an excellent rec with regret. Miss Loomis is a daugh- ter of ex-Lieutenant Colonel Loornis, the fruit dealer on State street. For basso at Dwight Place, Willianla s. Cooke has been engaged and he will also have charge of the choir. Mir. Cooke formerly sang in the Center church choir and is now and will con tine to be, basso in the fine choir of the Court street synagogue.
 William E. Morgan, jr., has been en- gagged to sing in the choir of Humphrey street Congregational church. MT. Morgan is now and has been for some time of the Church of the Messiah choir l and will be an excellent addition to | the choir. He takes the place of MT. l Seviere, who has been engaged to sing | bass at the Grand avenue Congrega- tional church with Edward Woodstock as tenor, the alto and soprano not yet announced. MT. Seviere and Mr. | Woodstock have been doing excellent work at the Humphrey street church l the past year. It is expected that Miss | Loveridge will remain at this church as soprano.
 | Frank Langdale will continue as di- rector and tenor at the Trinity M9 B. church, with Miss Grace Nichols again at the organ. E. c. Bennett will re main as bass and it is probable that Miss Sanford, soprano. and Miss Hofer, alto, will continue in their present posi- tions. Frank Edgar is to be precentor at the First Baptist church.
 | Miss Ellen Hofer signed yesterday with the Trinity Methodist church quar- tet for another year. This is the fourth year that MT. Langsdale has had a quartet at this church.
 i Harry Woodstock, who served as or ganist at the Grand avenue Congrega-
 tional church last year, has been re- engaged with the additional capacity of director. He has not organized his quartet as yet
 Mrs. Clifford Booth, pupil of Jerome
 Hayes, supplied at the Trinity Metho-
 dist church Sunday morning when Miss
 Gertrude Sanford was in Washington.
 Mrs Booth has an excellent voice for
 church work, and could fill a fine posi-
 ton if she chose to do so.
 No satisfactory tenor has as yet been found to fill MT. Moyle's place at Cen
 ter church for this coming year.
 The music at Trinity P E. church for
 the coming year will probably be under the direction Of MT. Bispham, the new
 curate from Washington. MT. Bispham
 will bring his organist with him. It is
 proposed to take down the present or
 gan and build anew $100O0 instrument
 in it's place. It has already been decid-
 ed that the old organ is unfit for fur
 ther use, and grand piano has been placed in the chancel and will be used
 hereafter Last Sunday afternoon the new choir of mixed voices which Mrs. A. Heaton Robertson organized at Dr. | Douglas request, sang for the first
 time. There is a solo quartet consist ing of Miss Loomis, Miss Lucella Sam ford, MT. Woodstock and MT. Mann, and
 a chorus of fifty or sixty voices. Among
 those who have promised their services are: Mrs. Lynde Harrison, Mrs. Dean Lyman, Mrs. Honey, Mrs. Vishno, Miss Crotty, Mrs. Bacon, Mrs. Pierce, Mrs. Wright, Messrs. Learned, Meaoham
 Schneeloch, Sumner, Lapham, etc. This
 choir sat in the front seats in the body
 of the church and proved of excellent
 service in the chants and hymns. A lit- tie greater assurance in attack would
 not detract from the ensemble effect
 however.