New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-03

boys II has to-day bu' eighteen TO
augment large choir OF fifty mixed
voices and by another year viii have
dropped them entirely. David Mex.
Williams, the new choirmastcr. "a a
graduate OF the French school and came
direct from Paris.
Among the Baptists many changes
TOOK place Yesterday. At the Fifth
Avenue church vulrariy known as
the Rockefeller church d now or
Canist. Harold Vincent MIliCan. will
play for the first time. Mr. Milligan
comes from Plymouth Church. in
Broo1lyn. \ man OF well mcri:ed rcpu-
tatlon As both concert orCanist and
choir director, he is looked upon as
worthy successor Of Harry Rowe Shell
ley, who was for many years connected
with this choir.
At Calvary there arc number Of
changes. The orCarist. Dr. 4. Nadc,cv
Richardson. goes 10 the Metropolitan
Temple, on Seventh Avenue. I'm his
place new man 20 New YORK Edward
Johnston, formerly organs. AZ Cornell
University comes strongly recon-
menGcd by Cornelrs ate president.
Andrew =. White. What he will be able
70 do with that unwieldy body OF one
hundred voices, The Calvary Choir"
divided by the entire width Of the
church, remains to be seen
Al the Madison Avenue Baptist the
organlst has not yet been selected.
Carl u. Roedcr played on trial yes
terday. The organist Of ycEtrryear,
Bruno HUM, has gone 70 Plymouth, in
Brooklyn. and takes for his tenor En-
DRY Randolph and for his basso Lyman
Wells Clary. founder Of his old choir
Spirit OF Unrest in Brooklyn.
In Brooklyn the same spirit OF IN
rest mas been felt Perhaps the most
generally admitted change for the bet
ter has been the return Of Harry Rove
Shelley 10 the ranks of Brooklyn or
CanistS after many years Of apostacy
in New York The Central ConCreca-
.ional has the reputation Of furnishing
as good music as any church in this
borough.
A. Y. Cornell loses his contralio,
Nine. Nevada Van der Wee. rom bis
Quartet At the Church Of the Pill
Crims, and his substituted Miss Elsie
Baker.
The Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian
Church John Hyatt Brewers choir
: changing its basso. The newcomer.
Gordon Kjnsey, a member Of the Men
delss hn Glec CLUB. has been singing
in s.. Johns. in Jersey City.
In Tho Catholic churches changes arc
not so not .ccah'e. The Cathedral will
continue the male quartet and Choir
us. under the direction Of DR.. John
Philip Foley; and Dr. Nicholas J. FL
scnhcimcr and his assistant. Frederick
Short. orgsnist. will furnish the music
- ST. lgnatiuS Loyola. At ST Francis
Xavier. the choir and congregation arc
mourning the loss of GiOrgio Narbetti,
whose rich bass voice has sounded the
prciudcs to the GreCorian chants for
tho last thirty-two years. On account
% failing eyesiCht. Mr.. Narbetti has
been forced 70 resign his position as
solo bass. His place is filed by Mons.
dc Hierapois, Frcnchman with
Greek name. who has the pedal notes"
in mis- voice rarely found out Of the
Russian church.
Catholic Orgsnist Honorcd.
Edmond G.. Hurley. orgarist Of tho
Paulist Fathers Church, is the recipi-
rnt Of double honors. lie has been
KniChted by the Pope and been given
VI
Francis Xavier College. "Mr." Hurley
is now both "Sir Edmond" and pr"
Hurley. Under his leadership he has
Gftv boys and ,hirty-three men. The
choir sings nothing but Gregorian mu-
sic but sings il superbly.
J. Warren Andrews, candidate Cby
reelection for Warden Of the Organ
lists Guild for the coming year direc-
tor OF the lUniversalisD Church Of
the Divine Paternity, has lost Miss
Edna Durham. his soprano, and has
rcgalned his former soprano. Miss Es-
tclle Harris. who has been in the West
Miss Edna Durham, who has been
singing for Mr. Andrews during the
last year, has gone to the St.
Nicholas (Forty-eiPhth Street, Re
formed Church, taking the place Of
Mrs Marie X. zimmerman. who re-
turns to Philadelphia Another new
member Of the quartette is Harvey
williamson. tenor, in the place of Or
lon A. Jackson, who goes to the Briar-
cliff Congregational Church as choir
master.
At the Marble Collegiate and the West
End Collegiate the choirs have been
retained. At the Marble Collegiate.
Richard T. Percy has been in charge
for twenty-four years, and DR.. Carl
Duff has been his solo barytone for
twcnty-three years out Of twenty-four.
and al the West End Collegiate. Henry
Hall Duncklcy has kept his choir intact
tor nearly the same number OF years
To Spend $1,000 on Organ.
In the Central Presbyterian Church
many things arc new. First OF all. the
building in which the congregation
meets Or. Kittrcdge's old church. the
Madison Avenue Reformed and next.
the organ. upon which $4,000 is 10 be
spent during the summer i'm remodel
ling, moving and charging T. The or
gan was built and set up according 10
specifications Of William r. Chapman,
when he was organist IN this church
Harry VI. Gilbert, organist in the old
church, has brought his choir intact
10 the new. ard will add the customary
harplst and strings when winter an
proachcs.
Howard f. Parkhurst. oreanist IN his
brothers church Rev. Charles n. Park
bursts on Saturday celebrated his
thirty-fifth anniversary as director Of
this choir; change was made in
his quartet yesterday, +. {. Towne
taking the place Of Bentley Mich
olson as tenor soloist Charles A.
Baker. formerly organist at the Re
formed Church which edifcc was sold to
the Central Presbyterian congregation.
goes to the 81. psul's Methodist. sue
ccedng +. j. Benedict. Charles Bowlcs
basso. sang his first services in the
Rutgers Presbyterian Church under
Edward Shipper Barnes. orCanist; and
b. W. Landlord succeeds Charles b.
Havley as organist OF the West End
Presbyterian Church. Since Mr. Haw-