The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-12-24
Christmas Programs.

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The spiritual significance of the
festival of Christmas viii be empha-
sized, as usual, by the rendering of
excellent musical programs in the
Catholic churches. Every church
choir has been rehearsing energetical-
~ for the feast. and the choir direc-
tors promise much in the way of good
music Two Of the local churches will
have Silas' mass, the prize compost
ton, which has never been heard here
Silas is Hollander and his mass
took first prize in composition for
sacred music at Belgium. That has
been selected by the directors of both
st. Elizabeth's and the Cathedral
choirs.
In many of the churches augmented
chOirs will do the singing, and prac-
tically all will have orchestral accom-
paniment for the vocal work. The
''Adeste Fidelis" has been selected for
the offertory by some of the choirs,
and by others it will be sung before or
after mass. The 5 o'clock mass is in
favor with many Of the pastors, but
the special musical programs will be
for the last masses.
At Logan avenue chapel. where the
Silas mass will be sung, Richter's or
chestra will furnish the accompani-
ment. Mrs. John r. Shilling will pre-
side at the organ, and will direct. The
soloists will be Miss Wanda Gottesle-
ben. Miss Bessie Wilder, William Say
Ell, Michael Gallagher, Walter Kerwin,
Ben Foley and Malcolm Marks. Mr..
Marks is tenor singer who has re-
Gently come from New York. At the
o'clock mass Bishop n. c. Matz will
deliver the sermon, and he will be in
the sanctuary at the 1880 o'clock high
mass. At both of these services prac-
tically the same musical program will
be given The Adeste Fidelis will be
sung at the offertory
St Elizabeths church will also have
Slas' mass. Miss Josephine Woeber
will direct the singing of it, and Miss
Clara Woeber will be at the organ.
There will be no orchestra, the Fran
ciscan Fathers forbidding the employ
ment of orchestras in their churches.
THE Heavens Are Telling" by Haydn,
will be part of the musical program
at St Elizabeth's The regular choir
viii sing the mass, the responses being
chanted by the altar boys within the
sanctuary. Thirty Of the little men in
their cassoeks and surplices will sing
the responses. For the o'clock mass,
Stewards Mass in B minor viii be the
program.
St Leos church is to have that
magnificent composition. Haydn's
Third Mass. for the 1890 o'clock serv-
ice. A double quartet viii sing it. with
Peter NIenzies directing and Miss Bes-
sic McGovern at the organ. Cavallo's
orchestra VIII assist. The singers viii
be Misses BERTHE Berline and Alice
Chase, soprano: Mrs. John Cotter and
Mrs. Horace Cooper, alto; James Grant
and William Marks, tenor; Peter Men
zies and DIR. Robert Brooks Finch.
bass. There viii be no chorus. Miss
Berlin viii sing the offertory. st.
Leo's has q splendid reputation for its
music, and the Christmas program will
be no exception.
At Loyola chapel at Twenty-sixth
and ogden streets. Mrs. Margaret Hay
den has prepared specially pleasing
program. Christmas will be a feast
of double significance for that congre-
cation as it inaugurates high mass
there. The chapel has been open since
last January. but this is the first high |
mass to be sung within its walls. In |
future there will be high mass every
sunday at $3.50 o'clock.
The program for Christmas includes |
the Gloria Kyrie and Sanctus, from |
Twelfth Mass and the Bene- /
dictus, Credo and Agnus Del. from La
Hache Frank Read and Miss Helen |
Y Young on the violin and Miss Rose |
Abel of the cello will assist the or
ganist. Andrew Day Mrs. Hayden |
VII ldirect
The soloists will be Mrs Robert !
Frank Read. Charles Nee
han and Harry Daley.
Loyola chapel occupies the ground
upon which the new Church of the Sa-
cred Heart viii be built, and is attend
ed from that church by Fathers Barry
Brucker and Bruner Until
now the congregation has gone to Sa-
cred Heart church for high mass on
Sunday. The little chapel has in it
The handsome statues which will adorn
The new church, and presents an at
tractive interior