The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-21
NEW ORATORIO
PARTS OF ASHMALL'S WORK
WILL BE SUNG.
Elaborate Christmas Music at Clinton
Avenue Reformed Church
Tomorrow.

There will be Christmas services OF an
especially elaborate character in the Clin-
ton Avenue Reformed Church, Clinton ave-
nue. and Halsey street, tomorrow morning,
| afternoon and evening. The latter service
will be particularly interesting. In addi-
ton to the regular choir, William ID. Ash
mall. the organist and director, OF Ar
llngton. has organized a choir Of thirty
voices, especially to render the music at
this service.
The program for night, among other
numbers. such as The Gloria in Excelsls,
from Mozart's Twelfth Mass and Before
tho Heavens Were Spread Abroad by
uoratio w. Parker, will contain Mr.. Ash
malls 30 Little Town OF Bethlehem and
part of the christmas Scene from his
new oratorio, The King Eternal" This
excerpt will doubtless prove of interest to
music lovers, as 1t will be performed for
the first time in public at this service.
The soprano will also sing a recitative
aria from the same work, 20 Lord, Thou
Art NV God, I VIII Exalt Thee One of
the movements from the o~ratorio will be
the Pastorale. i~nterqnezzo, a tone poem,
representing 5the shepherds in the Field. +"
The complete program for this service is
as follows:
Organ prelude. christmas Overture. !"
op. 167, William f.. Asbmall: hymn $50,
20 Come All Ye Faithful Invocation
and the Lords Prayer; chorus, Glorious
is Thy Name from Mozart's Twelfth
Mass, the Apostles Greed; choral response,
Holy. Holy, Holy" tenor solo, 20 Star
Divine W. Rhys-H erhert; Scripture les
son, Luke IL. chorus, Before the Heavens
Were Spread Abroad" Horatio w. Par
ker; responsive reading, Psalm 141; Gloria
in F, Greatorex, soprano solo, recitative
and aria, 20 Lord, Thou Art My God; l
Will Exalt Thee from the oratorio THE
King Eternal), Ashmall; prayer and re-
sponse; offertory, solo quartet and chorus,
20 Little Town of Bethlehem" William
F. Ashmall;A address by the pastor, the
Rev. DR.. Daniel II. Martin; prayer; The
Christmas Scene Qrom the ~oratorio THE
King Eternal'); (a) Pastorale, intermezzo,
representing the shepherds abiding in
the held;' 6) There Were Shepherds"
(alto recitative); And 10! the Angel Of
the Lord (tenor recitativel; Fear Not,
for Behold, ] Bring You Coco Tidings"
(cayatlna for ~soprano); 'And Suddenly
There Was with the Angel a Multitude of
the Heavenly Host. Praising God and
Saying (tenor recitative); chorus, Glory
to God in the Highest. and on Earth
Peace, Goodwill Toward Men" hymn,
1879, ANGELS from the Realms of Glory
organ postlude Continuation Of THE
Christmas Scene9), March Of the Royal
Retinue.'
The members of the choir are Mrs. Ada
Crane Jacobus, soprano; Miss Mabel
~St0ckwell, contralto; Emil Zeh. tenor; p.
"A. Parsons, basSo. Chorus: sopranos, Miss
Alice Cochran, Miss Minnie Bahrs, Miss
MinHie Taylor. Miss Susie D.. Hess Miss
Dora Dortenweld, Miss Tessie Heisler,
Miss Anna Relmherr, Miss Elizabeth ".
Reid, Miss Martha Schuff, Mrs. Charles
J.. Smith. Mrs. w. f. Ashmall; altos, Mrs.
Goodison, Miss Grace Grif1ths, Miss Jose
phine Cochran, Miss Nettie Arnold. Miss
Laura ~Stoekwell, Miss Elsie Schuff; tenors,
William Vosper, Charles ]. Smith. Henry
Kirchner; bassos, Archibald Salmond.
Milton Smith, Hugh Patterson, Frederick
II. Tegen, j. r. Stevens, Harry Koenjg,
William Edwin Ashmall, organist and
director.
The program for the morning service
is as follows:
Organ prelude. Fantasia on the Christ
mas hymn, "EIark. the Herald Angels
Sing" William u. Ashmall; Gloria in IN.
celsis. set to Anglican chants; carol
The Angels. Greeting" for solo and
quartet; ascription anthem, 'It Came
Upon the Midnight Clear Homer N.
Bartlett; onertory solo,, for contralto,
the Rreezes We're flushed and Still.s
Alfred N. Post; organ postlude, Halle
lnjah Chorus from The Messiah,O,
Handel.
what Christ Did for tie world viii
be DR.. Martins topic tor, arrov mornina
In the evening he Will speak on HThf
Meaning Of Christmaf y
The sunday Schoo ! hold It's Christ.
= mas exercises In fNtrERch at : o o'clock.
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