Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28

| Ptney Branch road and Aspen street,
| Will be given this evening at s o'clock.
! The choir, under the direction of Bes-
| sic \. villa; will present duets, trios,
| solos and choral anthems, together
with congregational singing of Christ
! mas carols.
Rev. William E. La Rue, the pastor,
! will conduct brief devotional
service.
! At IL am. service. First Congrega-
| tional Church, the vested choir of so
voices will sing GLORY to God in the
| Highest" PergolesD and Sing, o
| Heavens" (Tours); Charles T. Ferry,
! organist, will give as a prelude Pas
toral symphony" CHandeD, and as
postlude Fanfare" Lemare).
At pm. there will be presenta-
tion of the pageant, with music by
Mr. Ferry. entitled When Christ
Was Born
At 4:45 there will be vesper
service, with the following program:
Re1ls of Christmas" Pierce). THE
First Noel" (traditionaD, God Rest
You, Merry Gentlemen" (tradition-
all, The Babe in Bethlehem's Man
ger Laid" (traditionaD. silent Night,
Holy Night" arranged by Franz
Gruber), Shepherds Christmas Song"
tDickenson),. ITO Us Is Born I'm
manuel Praetorius), Come. All Ye
Shepherds CRiedeD, Angels We
Have Heard on High" sleep, Holy
Babe Grew. j. i. Dykes), and a
Joyful Christmas Song" (GevaerD.
AT Epiphany Lutheran Church the
vested choir. under the direction of
Edith Stowell, will sing the follow
ing numbers at the morning service:
Sing, o Heavens tTours); baritone
solo, The Voice of the Chimes"
tHahn), John Stowell, and There
Were Shepherds" CVincenD.
AT the evening service, which will
be largely music. the choir will sing
malD; soprano solo Night of Nights"
lNanderwater), Miss Edith Stowell;
There Were Shepherds" (MascalD
and The Birthday of the King"
tNetdlinger). Mrs. J. B. Dodson will
be at the organ. Incidental solos will
be taken by Mrs. L. Z. Hoover and
Lynn Gillchrest.
A special service of Christmas
carols and hymns has been prepared
at the Epworth Methodist Church
Thirteenth street and Lincoln Park
northeast, for tonight at S O'Clock. in
which both choir and congregation
will participate. The service will
open with candie-ligbt professional
followed by the program Of carols,
including: Ring Out, Ye Bells"
(Wallis): we Three Kings of Orient
Are" (traditionaD; The Christ Child
and the Star" (Rev. Runuals), God
Rest You. Merry Gentlemen ttradi-
tionan, THE First Noel'' (tradi-
tionaD. The Shepherds Christmas
Song" 0EeimannD, Incidental solo by
ollve Ramsay; Good King Wencelas''
(traditionaD, all song by the chorus
choir of 50 voices, and "Slumber Song
of the infant Jesus" Gevaert), sung
by mixed quartet; "Lo. How Rose
Fer Blooming tPraetorius). sung by
male chorus: 20 Holy Night" tAdam).
soprano solo by Ruby Potter.
Christmas music also will be pre-
scented at the morning service at II
o'clock, including Gloria in Excclsis"
tBuck). Ring Out, Wild Bells" (Gou-
nod, and soprano solo, THE New
Born King" d'Espoir).
: Edwin Moore, organist, will play
as prelude christmas Meditation"
Faulkes) and as postlude christmas
March" (MerkeD.
All music is under the direction of
Louis Potter.
T. Frederick II. Candlyn's new
cantata, THE Light of the World"
viii be presented this afternoon at
o'clock at st. Pauls Episcopal Church,
Rock Creek Church road. The solosists
VIII be: Mabel Foote Whitman, soprano;
). Elizabeth Kerr, contralto: Herbert
Aldrich, tenor, and Horace Lake, bass.
with Fl. III. Freeman. organist and
director. The string quartet that will
supply the instrumental music is COM
posed of Henri Sokolov, first violin;
Max Pugatsky. second violin; Samuel
Feldman, viola, and Dore Walten,
violoncello.
At the Christ Lutheran Church
Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock the
chorus Of the church will give the
Christmas cantata, The Light of
the World" Solos will be sung by
Mrs. Emil kryz, soprano; Mrs Meyer,
soprano; Elizabeth Amrein, contralto.
and William Scott, bass Katharine
Riggs, harpist, will play two groups
of solos on the harp. Her selections
will include: "Impromptu" (Dubois),
"Will-o'-the-W isp" fHasselman), Lar
go" (HandeD. La Source" (Faure).
Meditation (Hahn) and "Benedictus''
(Gounod).
The Christmas cantata Promise
and Fulfillment," will be sung this
evening at s o'clock at First Baptist
Church. Sixteenth and o streets. by
large chorus choir and 10 soloists,
under the direction of w. Harold
Whiteside, preceded by a 15-minute
sermon on Prophecy and Fulfill
ment" by DR.. G. Stanley Durkee. Mrs
Myra McCathran Marks will sing
Might of Nights" by Van de Water,
as an offertory solo.
The incidental soloists in the cantata
are: Inez Crater, Myra McCathrap
Marks. Frances Jackson, soprano;