Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-08-16
ORGAN OPENING
BY PROF. VIM. DONLEY AND
SACRED CONCERT
By the Choir of st. Andrews
Catholic Church---larqe
Attendance...Fine Music
.--AddreSS of Father
ROeII.

:
well filed last night by as fine and as
bled il this city to particip tie in
the opening of the magnificent new
organ by Prof. VIM. H. Donley and
the sacred concert by thechoir of the
church.
The church looked beautiful in all
81 ewness-,le e andson lesignini i,
he stately colun. MS. the self lights
the picturesque windo IS, the aitar>
of pure white and gold-all oDmbined
to make the scene a grand o4e to be-
hold.
The opening mum Der, the Pre-
lude, F" thunderej forth withR power
that seemed hmitless. and swell after
swell went out until that great struc-
tere was ebollient with unadulter-
ated harmony. The audience was
almost breathless, so perfect was the
silence, and So charmed w8e they
with the peals of the new origin.
The musical plumbers we-e then
rendered according TO the program
as published the other dsE The
mcst beautiful selections 4sndered
were Allegro Cantabile, Fi1F Sym
phony; Concert Overatufa and
Taunhauser, Fan tasia- "
am s., y.vAmlsH AndrsM fbf Il feoik .na 3
the various numbers fairly shaking
the large edifice, SO powerfully grand
were they. The 'sGloria, Mozart s
Twelfth Mass, "Infiammatus Est,
Regina Terrae,' Hallelujah, and Te
Deum were magniticently rendered
The following persons constituted /
the choir, especially trained for last
night S program:
Soprano-M Misses Elizabeth Over
mann, Lizzie Niemeir, Martha Gei' r,
I. resa Bahlmai n, Frances Engelber
Lille Schwegmann,. Anna Schei er,
Henrietta Wilkemeir. Cora Dick
m nm, Flora Dickman, Carrie Holt
haus, Clara Twehus, Mary Broer
mann, Clara Moormann, Catharine
Richter, Mary Rockers.
Alto = Misses Anna OvermanL,
Elizabeth Korves, Alvina Taube,
Wanda Gatzek, Bertha Maag, Caro-
line Schmittmeyer, Mrs. III. II. Engel
bert.
Tenor Bernard Brocrmann, Fl. FL
Charles Vessel, Henry
Nuechter, Ferdinand Herold, Frank
Andrew Westendorf,
Louis Kutter, Edward Issen, Ber
nard Overmann.
Bass-Paul Geier, Henry Broer
mann, Joseph Kutter, George Maur
er, James DeBus, John Zeyeu, BenJa
min Maag, Charles Vessel jr., Jacob
kutter.
The address of Rev. Frank A.
p>an nf fhanlyht
and high sentiment. He spoke OF
the music of the olden times, in the
temples, of the great preparation
Solomon made for the dedication OF
the temple to God. Then, the speak
er looking at the clock before him ia
the steeple said: The clock tells me
that at this time one year ago the
hand of God was seen in the destruc-
ton of this temple OF worship-old
St. Andrew s. We were made to
feel sad and mourned our loss very
greatly But ia less than year the
temple has been rebuilt, and out of
the ashes of the old has risen this
structure devoted aud
dedicated to the worship
of Almighty God. With the
completion of the church there was
lacking-the organ. 1t
was soon put in place, and it is of the
most recent invention and the best
OF the kind that money can buy. 1t
is being dedicated to the worship of
God. No words of mine can exag
gerate the power that music has over
the soul of man. There is music in
every b ng-tEe moaning of the
stately pines, the pealing of the
thunder. the rolling of the ocean-
All is musical. Music is divine-it
was made in heaven Thus when we
consider the nature of music. the
philosophy of music. do we find that
it of all appeals to the soul
the most powerful-it causes the
spirit of the affections of men to rise
to nobler efforts and to thrill with
emotions and influences
Therefore it is of all sciences,
the most noble and the most God
like, and the grandest that can be
cultivated by man on this earth.
He then referred to how the Catholic
church had fostered music for 900
years, advanced it and cherished
1t under all circumstances, spoke
of the Gregorian music, how Pooe
Gregory had set a pace that the
world has ever followed. The ad-
dress was a scholarly effort, the
sonorous voice of Father Roel filing
the sacred edifice- The singing By
the choir was highly commented on
and the work OF Prof Donley, the
organ st, and Prof Richter, the di-
rector, brought forth the praise of
all
Every detail was carried out with
great precision by all actively en-
gagged in the work of making the ef-
fort the success that it was.