The New York herald., 1922-05-01
Gala Concerts in
Parks, Churches
Open Music Week
Children ChOruses Have I'M
portant Part in the First
Days Celebration.

New York's music week opened aus
piciously yesterday. More than thou
sand churches in the five boroughs and
the outlying cities. small towns and
countryside within thirty-five miles had
sermons on music and special music
programs.
Children played an important part ic
the celebration in the parks. In the
Meadow opposite the Mall in Central
Park. and in the Long Meadow Prospect
Park. Brooklyn. there was massed Sum
day school singing with at least ten
thorsand children In each big chorus. A
great "gallerey' of adults came to hear
them. Accompanying the children. who
were directed in New York by DR.. Milton
S. Lttleheld chairman of the special
Sunday school committee of music week,
and in Brooklyn by George B. Petit. sec
retary Of the Brooklyn Sunday School
Union. the United States Navy Band
played in Central Park and the United
States Army Band in Prospect Park.
AS an additional unusual event almost
in the nature of a surprise. for 1t was ar
ranged only at the last moment, the
large band of the battleship Maryland
| flagship of the feet. volunteered came
over and gave a preliminary concert in
Central Park of eleven numbers after
ward playing the accompaniment with
the Navy Band.
The children sang Nearer My God
to Thee" 80 Worship the King Faith
of Our Fathers The King of Love My
Shepherd Is Jerusalem the Golden
Lead on. o King Eternal" America, :"
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
and America the Beautiful"
Cooperating with DR.. Littleheld and
Miss Isabel Lowden. director of Music
Week were the Rev. Charles S. Ackley.
the Rev. George Reid Andrews, Mr.. Wal
ter Book, the Revs. Stanley +. Davis.
Abraham Duryea. Edwin Farley, Hugh
Hartshorne. Stanley B. Hazard. Calvin
w. Laufer Joseph Silverman and Walter
| !. Southerton.
A distinguished committee OF New
York clergymen presided over the SER
mons on music and the special musical
! features of the many churches and di-
rected the organizing of the details. The
Rev. DIR. Ernest NJ. Stires was their
chairman and his associates comprised
the Revs Parkes Cadman and Joseph
Fort Newton. the Right Rev. Luther B.
Wilson, Methodist Episcopal Bishop, and
| the Rev Cornelius Woelfkin.
| Music Weeks opening day did not
| forget the poor. the forlorn, the un-
fortunate and the helpless. For these
concerts were given. The K1ps Bay
| Neighborhood House Glee Club, of
| forty-three boys who sing admirably
and are under the special patronage of
| Mrs Adrian Iselin. went over to the
penitentiary on Welfare Island and
gave an excellent program. At the
same time the Knights of Columbus
Band made its way to the Home for
| the Aged on Welfare Island and had a
concert for the $500 old men and
women there.
A group of young negroes in Harlem
who recently formed an organization
called the Students Circle Of Arts and
Literature, held a most successful con-
cert under the direction of Miss Laura
| Sedgwick Collins. composer, in the Rev.
Mr.. Sargent's church, at 131st street
and Seventh avenue in the Lafayette
! Building. The organizing chairman of
this was Wilfred G.. Springer, Secretary
| Ida NJ. Citizens and its treasurer. Clar-
rssa Browne, with Allen M. Ifell.
chairman of the program committee
! May Chin, soprano; Adena Price. pi-
anist. and Edrie Fair. recitationist.
| The activities OF the negroes OF New
York did not end here. there being. in
addition. in the afternoon at St Cyp-
rian's Mission Church, 173 West Sixty
third street, special musical service
for the Sunday school at 2 80.