Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-28
FINE RENDITION
OF AN ORATORIO
Westminster Singers Receive
Commentator For Presenta-
ton of Mary Magdalcn"

Westminster Presbyterian Church
ciative audience which listened with
growing approval to the rendition of
Jules Massenet's oratorio, MARY Mag
dalen." by the church choir, which
had been augmented until there were
about fifty voices in the chorus.
Robert c. Smith was the director
and j. Stewart Black the accompanist.
Mr.. Smith is leader of exceptional
ability. The well-trained chorus was
testimonial OF his skill along this
line. Mr.. Black has few equals in the
city as an accompanist. These two
young men are Harrisburgers and de-
serve much credit for what they have
done during the past few years to stim-
ulate the public's appreciation of good
music.
This was the first time that the ora
torio has been sung in the city and
many came to hear 1t on that account;
others thought 1t was too difficult q
selection to be undertaken by chorus
made up as was this one, but those
who heard the oratorio could have
nothing but praise for all who partici-
pated in It, 1t was q great success.
Those who love good music were there
and were loud in their praise. All the
parts were we'll balanced. The inter-
probation was good. Everyone sang
his best, and the result was q most
pleasing one. The solo work of Mrs.
Phoebe Turner and of Miss Mary Bell
Corbett, also that of DIR. Byron Stanley
Behney and Stanley ]. Backenstoss,
was of high order.
At the close of the oratorio the
members of the regular choir of the
Westminster Church served light re-
treShmentS in the lecture room to the
singers from the outside who had so
kindly co-operated with them.
Among the Singers
The members of the chorus were:
Soprano, Miss Anna Bockus, Miss
Claire Dyer, Miss Edna Forrer, Miss
Kathryn Germer. Miss Ella Wilson,
Miss Mary Swindells, Mrs. Eta Ray
sor, Miss Anna Hammelbaugh, Mrs. w.
70. Randall, Mrs. r. r. Romberger,
Miss Margaret johnson, Mrs. C. c.
Holland, Mrs. s. r. Harris, Miss S.
Beitman. Miss Cynthia Beitman, Miss
Marie Putt, Miss Ruth Daugherty, Mrs.
j. w. Duncan, Miss Elizabeth Cause,
Miss Alice NJ. Straub, Miss Ethel Dis
singer, Miss Bessie Raysor and Miss
Kathryn Johnson; alto, Miss Dorothy
Dyer. Mrs. A. J. Lightner. Miss Mayme
Sellers; Mrs w: G. Roeschlaub. Miss
Ella Bockus, Miss Elizabeth Albert,
Miss Luella Lehman, Miss Goldie Gal
lagher, Mrs. Harvey Lindemuth, Miss
Matilda Tritle, Mrs. e. III. Mccoy and
Mrs. d. c. Hawley; tenor Earl Bates,
w. F. Schreadley, Ira Behney, f. II,
Mccoy. s. r. Harris, Albert Meyer, N.
E. Huber and Carl Sarvis; bass,
Gwylim Watkins, c. c. Holland, James
McCabe. William Boyer, A. j. Light
ner. Russell Ehrhart, Roy Shreiner,
Jacob Schnader and w. T. Trullinger.
The patrons included the Rev. and
Mrs. e. e. Curtis, Mr.. and Mrs. E. A.
Nesanger, Mr.. and Mrs. j. G. Martin,
Mr.. and Mrs. o. r. Girvin, Mr.. and
Mrs. M. G. Baker, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Hasson. Mr.. and Mrs. II. o. Huber,
DR.. and Mrs. H. B. Walter. Mr.. and
Mrs. James K. Linn, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Wanbaugh, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Jeffers. Mr.. and Mrs. Claude
Kunkle, Mr.. and Mrs. Redsecker Brin-
ser, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph H. Frantz,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Harry, Mr.. and
Mrs. BENJAMIN Bowman. Mr.. and Mrs.
Noah K. Linn, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert c.
Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph +. Cress-
well, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Bowers, Mr..
and Mrs. George Williams. Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. c. Moore. Mr.. and Mrs. ]. P.
Reeves, Mr.. and Mrs. William r.
Shuey, Mr.; and Mrs. D. w. sohn, Mrs.
Tunis, William B. Corbett, James
Robson, Elmer Wingeard, Ed. Al
bright, Clarence Jones, Charles Kueb-
ler, Ross Walter, Mrs. May Blair Mrs.
Sarah Huss, Mrs. John Kelley, Mrs. r.
]. Adams, Miss Nell Reynolds, Miss
Mary Angney, Miss Carrie Black, Miss
Helen Meyer, Miss Belle Walter, Miss
Mary Orth, Mrs. Mary Orth, Mrs.
Charles Gardner, Mrs. A. A. Pancake,
Mrs. F. II. Dyer, Mrs. Sarah Coover,
Mrs. Anna Bockus, Mrs. James Kel-
logg, Mrs. G.. d. Bentley, Mrs. Ella
Keith, Mrs. Harriette Hammelbaugh,
]. A. Germer, r. l.. Hunter, w. B.
Maxwell, d. d. Hammelbaugh, Harry
G. Miller, j. Stewart Black, Walter
Sohn, Miss Florence Dyer, Miss Mary
Skane, Miss Sarah Whitmoyer, Miss
Kate Hammelbaugh, Miss Dora Dyer,
Miss Evetta Jeffers. Miss Emma Tack
and Miss Elizabeth Tack.
Miss Dorothy Fehr Fahnestock, a
teacher in the schools of Kenneth
Square, has resumed her work after
spending some time with her parents,
Professor and Mrs. William F. Fahne-
stock, at Lucknow.