Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-24
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| An evening with the choir will be given
| at the Rhode Island Avenue NJ. Z. Church
| this evening. under the direction of Page
! l.. Zimmerman The program will include
| the anthem Gloria" by Mozart: soprano
solo, The Lord is My Light Miss Laura
Collision: quartet 1.-The Day is Past and
Over" by Reed rendered by Mrs. Julian
/, Dodge soprano: Miss Sadie Shuckers,
alto: Mr.. knight. tenor and Mr.. Lovett
basso: tenor solo, Prayer r. Wood
| land ,Iates: anthem. "EvensonG con
tralto solo. Jesus Thou Art Knocking,
| Miss Harding; male quartet. selected
! Messrs Morton Knight, Iovett and Bal
/! lard; bass solo, IF God So Clothed the
, Grass Lester Ballard; anthem, ''Hark:
| Hark My Soul Misses Harding, Col
| lison and chorus. Mr.. Zimmerman took
| charge of the choir last December, reor-
! ganizng and charging the chorus and
| presenting the members in several sue
| cessful musical events during the season
| The most important was concert late
| in the spring for the benefit of the Park
Road Mission, which Melted a substantial
sum. The regular choir was augmented
on that occasion by number of proml-
nent local singers, among them Mr.. and
Mrs Thomas l.. Jones. Mrs Charles B..
| Bayley. Mrs. ID. Olin Leech, Miss Mary
sherier, Miss Ada Arundel. Messrs;
| Arthur l.. Simpson. c. d. Engel and
+, Owen Penney A number of new voices
have been added to the chorus during the
past month, the personnel of the organ1za-
ton at present being as follows: So
pranos. Miss Laura Collision, Mrs. j. T.
Brown, Miss A. b. Clokey, Miss Mar
garet Howard. Miss Julian p Dodge.
Mrs. w. Bulls, Mrs. T.. b. Linton: con
traltos, Miss II. Harding. Mrs. +. T.
Jones. Miss X. Mcintosh Miss Sadie
Shuckers Miss Grace Beale and Miss
/ Lolita Hughes: tenorS, MessrS. Knight.
James X. Morton. Summerville and
Charles Allen: bassos, Messrs. Lester Bal
lard. Lovett and ]. p. Dodge. Mrs. Roy
Wolfe will preside at the organ.
| George H. Miller. baritone. has been
engaged to sing in grand opera and left
| Wednesday for New York to begin re-
| hearSals. Mr.. Miller is but twenty-three
years of age and is a native of Kansas.
though his musical training has all been
received in this city, being at present bass
| sdloist in the Mount Pleasant Congrega-
tional Church.
| Kenneth Ogden, who is the possessor of
a lyric tenor voice of beautiful quality.
has accepted the position of soloist at the
First congregational Church and Will en-
ter upon his new duties in October. Mr.:
Ogden is resident of Alexandra ana
has for a long time been Soloist in both
| the synagogue and Old Christ Church in
the Virginia town. The other members
| of the quartet, Mrs. b. II. Smart. So
| prano: Miss Edna Scott Smith. contralto.
| and ]. Walter Humphreys, baSso. Will re-
| main as in past seasons.
| St. Paul's sanctuary choir has its plans
| we'll formula ted for the coming season,
| and has in preparation the music for the
| first high mass which will be sung Octo-
Der J. Few choirs in this or any other
| city have the record which this choir
| holds of sticking together, boy rarely
| leaving until compelled to do SO through
| voice mutation. Masters Raymond King.
| Edward Roach. George Giddens. Oswald
| Lehman and Philip Cannon have served
continuously for seven years: Masters Jo-
| Seph McGarraghy and Andrew Mccall
lum have served five years: Masters Clar-
ence King. Sylvester ,Giddens and Frank
| lin Howe have served four years, and
| Masters William Cross. William Darling.
| Paul Goiibart, Willis Cameron Frank
Easy-Smith, Harry Ahearn, Thomas
| Cameron. Aloysius Babbington. Lloyd Won
/ Culin. Joseph Roberts. Dean Gallagher.
| William Mcdonnell and William Cfeval-
| Ernest T. Winchester has been the di-
| rector of the choir for six years. and the
following men are charter members and
| still actively concerned in the welfare of
| the choir: Joseph Ryder, Joseph F..
Dunn John T. Fogarty, John NJ. Council
| and j. s. Reed Miss Elizabeth Leonard
| has been in charge of the choir vestments
| continuously for seven years. Master
/ Sylvester Giddens will be soprano soloist
| this Season Edward H. Roach contraito;
ii. Victor Golibart tenor and John M.
| Council, baritone, supported by thirty-five
/ trained male voices. Joseph r. Dunn will
i be master of ceremonies of the choir.
/ William c. Atherhoit, soloist and must
cal director of Waugh Methodist Church,
| has been engag ed as tenor solost at As
censon Church. and will begin his new
| duties early in October. !,
| Miss Marguerite Howard, soprano solo
! list of st. Stephens Catholic Church. has
| returned from her summer outing at
Ocean City. Md During her stay at the
| seashore Miss Howard who had been
heard many times as a singer. surprised
| her friends by playing the organ for
| three Sundays at the Catholic Church.
| The solo quartet of st. Stephens Church
| has been re-engaged for the coming year
and resumed rehearsals last week. The
| other members are Mrs. Nellie O'Hare
Pollard, contralto; William Seaman, ten
or, and William Barnholt, bass
/ Mrs. Blanche Muir Dalgleish, who had
| been obliged to cancel her engagement to
sing at the annual meeting of the Wom-
ans Club Of Rockville because the date
confiicted with her plans for a trip to
Atlantic City, will sing for the club after
| all. At board meeting held Tuesday
| the date of the annual meeting was
| changed to October g. to enable
the contrato to sing for them again this
year. The meeting will be held at the
home of Mrs. William Welsh in Rock
vile. Mrs. DalGleish will leave Octo-
Der > for Atlantic City with Mr.. Dal-
| gleish. who goes to attend the sessions
of the convention of electrical engineers.
| The services of the chorus choir at the
| First Baptist Church viii! be dispensed
! with this season. and the muse will he
| rendered by quartet. Miss Marian Nc
| Fall will continue to act as choir director
as well as soprano soloist, and the other
| members of the quartet will be Mrs.
James Kerr. contralto and Messrs. Platt
Birch. tenor. and r. II. McLachlen. bass.
| Mrs. Edmund Barry will continue to pre-
| side at the organ. and the program this
morning will include a duet raSdons
| Guiding Star sung by Miss McFall
and Nc. McLachlen and the anthem. I'm
Heavenly Love Abiding sung by the
quartet. In the evening the offertory
number will be duet. Rubinsteins
| Wanderers Night Song rendered by
| Miss McFall and Mrs Kerr.
| At Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church
a special musical service has been ar
! ranged for this evening, at o'clock. Sid
| ney Lloyd Wrightson, the director. had
| expected Richard =. Backing tenor, to
| sing at this service as his fianl appear
| ance before q Washington audience preVi-