The Daily Missoulian., 1910-12-04
SINGERS Required
sss s;sl
FOR REVEALS


From Park Rapids, Minn., George
Moody, choirmaster and musical di-.
rector who is to appear lii Mfskoula
with Eyapgeiist Oscar Lowery during
the. revival services in January.
writes to the corpn1fttee in charge Of
the organizing Of musical forces ex
planning in full his desires concerning
the choir and other music arrange
ments >fors the revival series. Mr..
Moody srequests the. committee to start
the Originating of talent Immediately
and have " full force lined up pre-
paratory to- his. arrival in Missoula
for the FIRST drill M
| Important Factor.
Music. /, writes the lirectsr lis one
Of the most important factors in this
sort of meeting. Anfihe large chorus
and plenty OF good music win do more
to bring out the crnwds than any,
thing else. hope that. the committee
will do everything in Ms power tu5get
every singer in,the city to Join the
chorus. You ought to have an organ
! ization of 500 yDfces in city like
yours, certainly not less than 400''
" Msthods. s''7'
Concerning the methods of organic
| ing for the chorus work Mr. Moody
has a lot Of good suggestions to offer.
He believes in going into the hy-ways
and hedges and getting singers But
he makes a special request that those
under l0 years OF age be excluded. An
! orchestra of a dozen pieces is one of
4 the hopes of the musical director and
4 he also requires the services Of four
accomplished accompanies on pianos.
Arrangements are to be made for two
pianos in the tabernacle and two play
ers will perform each of these instru-
ments at once, thus filling. the en-
4 closure with a grand volume of music
to aid the. big assembly of vocalists.
Referring to the pianists Mr.. Moody
| says: II want. good. strong players;
| good timers, and all around, good
brilliant, snappy accompanies, and
want, If possible, the, same players
all, of the tinle''
Further in his letter Mr.. Moody. ex-
| plains his wishes concerning tile as
j sembling; of the vocalists. He says:
! II want you to arrange to have the
4. seats in the choir numbered and issue
cards or tickets to- the members OF
1.-THE choir. with the number on each
Ito correspond with that on the seat
and assign each singer tosa particular
seat to be occupied by that person all
I! during the meetings. will want to
meet the entire chorus and orchestra
4 and pianists for rehearsal on the open
ing Sunday in the afternoon, about
300 O'Clock BE sure to look after
the pianos in good time so Jas to have
them tuned together for the opening
service
New Song Book.
/ At the LOwery- Moody revlvals q
new evangelistic song book is to be
used, Mr.. Moody speaking of the col
lection as the very best he has ever
been able to find for this class al
service. The singer will be in Ana.
conia with Mrs. Moody In about two
weeks. and will probably run over te
Missoula to aid in the organizing
work. At present Messrs Lowery and
Moody are conducting revival servlcet
in Park 'Rapids. Mimi. and will Gloss
there In about fortnight Locally
there ii a lot of interest displayed II
the coming revival services and con.
certed movement is now on foot tt
gather together a singing and orches'
trail organization that will be able t
I furnish brilliant and inspiring music
for the meetings.