Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-24

Chorus. The singers will be Miss Virginia
Powell Goodwin. soprano: Miss Edna Scott
Smith. contralto; Mr.. Douglass G. Miller.
tenor: Mr. J. Walter Humphrey. bass. DIR.
j. w. Bischoff will be organist and director.
and there will be a chorus of sixty voices.
AT the evening service. at O'Clock. tho
choir will sing the new Christmas cantata
by Geibel, The Nativity.
Elaborate Christmas services have been
arranged for the Plymouth Congrega tionai
Church (colored). 18th and streets north
west, Rev. A. G. Garner, pastor. The even
ing service will include: Organ prelude:
Is. Shelley; solo. Thou oh Lord. Saint
Saens. Miss Mamie Simmons anthem. The
Lord Is My Light. Schneider; solo. 1t Came
Upon Midnight Clear. Neidlinger. ]. Ger
Messrs. Williams and Tyler; solo. selected.
Mr. Amos.
The Christmas program at the Mt.
Pleasant Congregational Church follows:
Morning, prelude, Christmas Pastorale.
Merkel, op 90; anthem, Sing, o Heavens.
Holden: postlude. Halleiujah Chorus. from
Messiah, Handel. Evening service. organ
recital preceding service % Fantasia on
Good King Wenceslass (old carol, Price:
CD. Entracte Gavotte de Mignon Thomas;
CD. March Pontiicale, Lemens; prelude,
Melody In A Major. Witch: offertory.
Bethlehem, Gounod; cantata, The Hope OF
theNWorld. Schneider by chorus OF fifty
voices, organ and orchestra. Mr.. ]. w.
Cheney, organist of Rock Creek Church.
will officiate at the organ. Mr.. s. Fred
erick Smith will be conductor. PostluGe.
chorus from Messiah, Handel; S. Frederick
Smith, organist and choirmaster.
Lutheran.
The music in the several Lutheran
churches promises to be OF the usual high
order At the Church of the Reformation
Rev. w. E. Parson. pastor, the music at
the forenoon service will be as follows:
Professional march, full orchestra and or
gan: There Were Shepherds Buck; Gloria
Patri, Kyrie. Gloria in Excelsis; The Birth
day of King, Neidlinger, baritone solo;
hymn. Adeste Fideles; Night in Bethlehem.
Parker, with prelude by stringed instru-
ments; Lords Prayer. Schilling; offertory,
1t Came Upon the Midnight Clear, Scott:
postlude. At the 1880 pm. service: Organ
prelude Largo, Handel; Glory to God Far
mer; Gloria Patri, Patten: hymn. Little
Town of Bethlehem; o Holy Night Adam;
Lords Prayer, Schilling; offertory, Cradle
Hymn, Parker duet, soprano and tenor;
organ postlude. The choir consists of Mrs.
Marie Macnichol Richmond soprano; Mrs.
Eleanor Baker Spencer, contralto; Mr.. Geo.
Scharf, tenor; Mr.. William Graham. hasso:
Mrs. William Hamilton Bayly, organist and
director. The orchestra will be under the
direction of Mr.. Henry Stopsack.
At the Keller Memorial Church, Rev. G.
II; Butler, pastor. located at the corner OF
9th street and Maryland avenue northeast,
the following. in addition to hymns, will
be the musical program tomorrow: Duet
and chorus. Break Forth Into JOY" Elmer
son; quartet by ladies. with chorus, The
Message of the Angels by Loving; bari
tone solo and chorus THE Star OF Bethle-
hem," by Parks; chorus, Behold l Bring
You Good Tidings," by Geibel. The menu
bers of the choir the following: Mr..
w. Q. Little, director; Miss Clara Parkin-
son. organist; sopranos. Mrs. G.. o. Beeler,
Mrs. w. 7. Bowdler. Miss Cole, Mrs. Edgar
Settler: altos. Miss Elsie Parkinson, Miss
Florence Buehler; tenors, Mr.. Joseph Man.
ming, Mr.. Parkinson; BASES, Mr.. w. ..
Little, Mr.. Adolph Bowdler, Mr.. R. l..
Brown and Mr.. Charles u. Black.
The Sunday school Christmas celebration
will be held at 1870 o'clock tomorrow even-
ing and the Christmas entertainment. with
tree and different program, on Tuesday
evening.
The program of Christmas music at the
Lutheran Memorial Church, r. K. Rodrick,
director, will be follows:
Morning-"Gloria in Excelsis," Dudley
Buck; duet, Christmas Harry Rowe
Shelley, Messrs. Jones and Rodrick; 'Hark,
What Mean Those Holy Voices7" Niedlin-
ger.
Evening service-"Sing, Heavens" Ca
leb Shipper; tenor solo. Mr.. Thomas L..
JONES' ITO Victory" Niedlinger.
The Christmas music at st. Paurs Luz
theran Church, 11th and Fl streets north
west. Rev. John T. Huddle pastor. will be
rendered by the regular choir of volunteer
voices, which will sing the following pro-
Child is Born" from Gabriel's Holy
One of Israel" 1.-The Heavens are Telling
from Haydn's "Creation;" Bucks arrange
ment of Adams 20 Holy Night" There
Were Shepherds Abiding in the Fields"
Lynes.
At the evening service the children of
the Sabbath school will have a special
Christmas service, interspersed with spe-
cially prepared music.
Universalist
Christmas music will be rendered at the
Church of Our Father, 18th and L streets
northwest, Rev. John Van Schaick, jr.. pas
tor, as follows: Morning servce-An-
thems. While Shepherds Watched" Ha-
mer; NOVEL; Hail Gentle King Maris-
tow; choir response: .'Luther's Carol for
His Child" Martin Luther: soprano solo
and chorus, 20 Holy Night" arranged by
Dressler; contralto solo; baritone solo. Mr..
Loren Powers of Tufts College. Evening
service-Sunday school concert, Christmas
carols. the choir assisting: anthem, O Little
Town of Bethlehem. Lewis; baritone solo,
Nazareth. Gounod The choir will be COM
posed of Miss Alice G. Chandler, soprano
and choir leader: Mrs. Fred w. Chase, con-
tralto; Mr.. wilkins, tenor; Fred E. ks
singer, bass; Miss Alice B. Harvey, orr
ganist.
New Church.
At the New Church. 10th and Corcoran
streets, there will be vespers at s o'clock
this evening, with old English carols and
children's Rotations, See, Beneath the
Winters Snow, and Lo, BY My Sheep My
Watch Keep, etc. At the forenoon serv-
Ice. beginning at IL o'clock tomorrow, there
will be an organ prelude, overture to The
Messiah. Come Hither. Ye Faithful; Roll
Out Song to God: anthem, Zion. That
Bringest Good Tidings, Arthur Foote:
Benedictus, Gichrist; offertory, Come,
Redeemer of Mankind, West. Choir quar-
tet-Miss Matte Gibson, soprano; Miss
Florence Bean, contralto; Mr. w. H. Davis,
tenor; Mr.. VIM. NJ. Shuster, bass and d.
rector. Miss Maude G. Sewall, organist.
At the Soldiers Home.
High mass will be sung at the Soldiers
Home on Christmas morning at o'clock by
Rev. Father L. M. Southgate. The mu-
steal program includes the following selec-
lions: Messe de st. Patrick, La Hache;
Cantique Noel, by Adam; Adeste Fidelis,
Norello. The Soldiers Home choir will have
the assistance of the following soloists from
the city: Misses Nellie Burke, Margaret
Coleman, M. Bernadine Fitzgerald and
Messrs. John Arendes and Clarence Brown.
Organist, Miss M. Agnes Browne