The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-12-25
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS.
ELlBoRATE MUsIChL PRO.
GRlMMES IN THE CHURCHES.

Special Music for the Early MorninE Mass
at 81. Fatriek's Cathedral Extra Ser
vices by All Denominations Dinners
for Those In All the CITY Iustitntions.
The usual Christmas celebrations in the
churches throughout tho whole Of the first half
of to-day will be most impressive. In st. Fat
rlck's Cathedral, where the Roman Catholics
have arranged for their most elaborate services.
n solemn high mass will be sung at 4 80 A. NJ,
and even at that early hour there will be q
special feature of music. The chancel choir
and OILERS quartet will sing Gounod's mass in
c major and Novelties offertory, "Adeste Eide
lis" A solemn Pontincal mass will be sung at
IL O'Clock with q full orchestra and chorus and
the organ. and with the regular quartet choir.
At 4 P. NJ. thore will DO solemn Pontiacal YES
pers.
At st. Thomas's Protestant Episcopal Church
services will be held at IL A. M, and organist
George William Warren will BIO assisted BY q
choir Of mixed voices.
AT st. Georges. on Stuyvosant square, the
service will begin at IL A. NJ, and MIR. Chester.
the ~organist, has prepared an attractive pro-
gramme.
At the Pro-Cathedral. 100 Stanton street,
Bishop Henry c. Potter will deliver an address
at the early service. which 10 set for 1880 A. NJ.
There will be another service at 10 $780,, and the
music for both services will be rendered by o
supplied choir of twenty eight men and boys.
with an auxiliary chorus of ten female voices.
At st. Bartholomew. Forty-fourth street and
Madison avenue, an elaborate musical pro-
prnmme has been arranged by Richard Henry
Warren. and a chorus of ~forty-six mixed voices
will assist in rendering It besides the soloists.
This service will begin at IL O'Clock.
AT st. lgnatius's Church. in West Fortieth
street, service will be held at II; and a chorus
of forty voices will aid the organist and soloists
with the music.
Elaborate programmes have also been ar.
ranged for music at st. Marks. St Paul's
chapel. All Saints Church In Henry street, st.
Nicholas's ut Ninty-ninth street and Amster-
dam avenue, st: Chrysostom's chapel At Thirty.
ninth street and Seventh avenue, the Church of
the Heavenly Rest, and many others OF the
Protestant Episcopal churches.
The Marble Collegiate Church.. at Fifth ave-
nue. and Twenty-ninth street. will hold u service
at II A. NJ, at which the music will be rendered
by the united choirs of the Marble Church, the
West End Collegiate Church.. and the Forty
eighth street Collegiate Church. all under T.
byterian Church will also hold an ii o'clock
Christmas service.
The Union Methodist Episcopal Church in
Forty-eighth street will hold services at 10 $40
assisted by a chorus OF twenty voices. I the
evening service q Christmas ~cantata by Dudley
Buck. called The Coming OF the King" will be
performed for the first time. There will also be
special services at the Central Metropolitau
Temple at Seventh avenue and Fourteenth
street.
Besides all the homo entertainments. there
will acarcely be q single institution in or about
this city, whether it be charitable. educational.
or penal, public or private. where the inmates
will not sit down to better cheer to-day than 10
usual. AT ST. Marks Hospital In Second avenue
tho House of the trustees gives q
spread at 4 P. M and this is q part of q custom
that will prevail in many Of the hospitals and
asylumo,