Evening capital., 1906-12-10
ORATORIO At ST. ANNE'S.
The Last Judgment" Beautifully Sung By
The Vested Choir.
MUCH PRAISE DUE TO cHOIRMASTER
CT. WILLIAMS.
Large Crowd Enjoyed The Rendition
Yesterday Afternoon.

| Evening Prayer at st. Anne's yester-
day at 4.30 the choir sang the oratorio
The Last Judgment, by Louis
| Spohr. This was very pretentious
undertaking. For, although, more or
| less elaborate cantatas are commonly
sung by regularly organized choirs,
an oratorio is a very different thing
| to render.
THE Last Judgment, 1t is true,
is not one of the great oratorios, but
its rendition is only possible after
severe training. st. Paul's choir,
Baltimore, and st. Anne's choir, An
napolis are the only choirs in Mary
land which have undertaken this
work of Spohrs. For the oratorio yes
| terday the chorus was perfectly bal
anced and in excellent training. The
feature of their work was i'm the exact
ness of their attack. Too much praise
cannot be given to Choirmaster q. Il.
Williams for his work as trainer and
director The chorus consisted of
eleven boys, trebles, two ladies, altos
and eight men tive bassos and three
tenors.) In addition to these there
were four soloists, Miss Wales, So
prano; Miss Feldmeyer, alto; Mr..
Peacock, of Baltimore, bass, and Mr..
Clemson, tenor, and one treble or boy
soloist, who divided the soprano solos
with Miss Wales, Master George Carl
son.
In addition to the solos of the ora
torio, Miss Wales sang, with exquisite
taste during the offertory, Mendels-
sohn's Hear My Prayer" Miss
Wales has recently come TO Annapolis
and is great addition to its musical
circle. She is n conservatory graduate
and unusually talented. Miss Field
meyers work was confined largely to
quartees, but her few solo parts were
so beautifully rendered as to make
the congregation sorry the composer
had not given the alto more to do.
Her work is in the best style and
taste, giving evidence of training by
good masters, while size is endowed
with greater talent by nature.
The tenor solos by Mr.. Clemson were
well sung. He is an accomplished
musician, who knows how TO sing and
does his work artistically. Unfortu-
nately he spends his Sundays out of
town, or he would be great addition
to st. Anne's or some other choir.
The bass solos of Mr. Peacock were
what one expects from the leading
pupil of the vocal department at the
Peabody Institute.
We speak last of the boy, or treble
scloist of st. Anne's choir, Master
George Carlson. He sang throughout
all of the choruses, leading, and in
several of the quartets and duets, and
two soprano solos. Because of this
burden of work he was relieved from
the otner soprano solos by Miss Wales.
His singing is the great pride of st.
Anne's people. They never hear him
too often. Yesterday, in his duet
with the tenor ''Forsake Me Not In
This Dread Hour his beautiful boy
voice interpreted the language of this
solemn. plaintive selection so as to
reach every hearers heart and mind.
upon the whole the oratorio was
well given. 1t lis most appropriate
to the Advent season, and repeats
part of the language of the two les
sons for Evening Prayer appointed
for the second Sunday in Adven {
Usiah, "a and Revelations, 2. No
one could hear il without being bene-
fitted spiritually. It is long compo-
sition, beginning with an overture
and is broken by two instrumental
symphonies, one larger than the over
ture and shorter one. 1t takes one
hour and a-balf. In consequence the
evening service, which began at 4.30,
was not over until little after half
past six o'clock.
During the service which preceded
the oratorio and was the shortened
form of Evening Prayer, the Magniti-
cat and Nunc Dimittis were in Il. fiat
| by Marchant, and were SO we'll rem
dered as to be as much feature of
the choirs work as any part of the
oratorio. After the benediction, while
| the congregation were yet kneeling,
a short devotion, (the language of a
hymn composed by Choirmaster Will
Jams, was sung.
| The instrumental work was some
| what hampered by the incomplete con-
dition of the organ. The work of re-
| building it will not be finished for a
week or ten days yet. The heavy pedal
| is not in, nor are all of the reeds, nor
| is the mechanism of the swell perfect
ed. 1t was sufficiently completed for
| the accompaniment of all of yester-
DAYS services. The builders asked
| the organist, MIR. williams, to request
/ the rector TO announce To the congre-
/ CATION the state of the organ and to ask
| them not to judge il until they have
completed their work.
| Two weeks from yesterday (Sunday
| afternoon, December %, in connection
| with the 4. 80 service, the organist of
the church will give recital, which
will give an opportunity for the peo-
gan committee and the organ builders
Il