Evening star., 1925-02-22
GREAT MUSICAL
FEST|VAL PLANNED
World Fellowship Program to
BE Given in Capital During
: Easter Week.

Plans for World Fellowship
Through Music to be held in Wash
tngton during Easter week, were
completed last night by DR.. ZeBarncy
]. Phillips, rector of the Church of the
Epiphany, chairman. and Dr. Jason
Noble Pierce, pastor of the First
Congregational Church: DR.. Abram
Simon, president of the American
Council of Rabbis, and DR.. James II.
Ryan, secretary of the National
Council of Catholic Welfare asso-
ctate chairmen. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge
has accepted the honorary chairman
ship of the committee on arrange
ments. The lay members of the COM
mfttee include DR.. Alexander Henne-
man, Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe. Miss
Ella May Powell and T. Arthur
Smith, the last named acting as
financial secretary.
: Arrangements were completed yes
terday for the appearance in the Cap
ftal on the second day of the festival
Of the famous Bach Choir of ESQ
voices of Bethlehem. Pa. and so
pembers of the Philadelphia Orches-
ira to provide the orchestral setting.
Letter Sent to Governors.
. The following letter was sent last
night to each of the As governors IN
The United States, and to the chief
executives in Hawaii, Alaska, Porto
Rico and the Panama Canal Zone:
= Through the activities of many
prominent Washingtonians there has
Been arranged a World Fellowship
Through Music to be held In Wash
ington. April Is. Is. II, 1925. The
Bach Choir OF $50 voices of Bethle-
hem. Pa. and so members of the
Philadelphia Orchestra have been
chosen as the most fitting to demon
strate the unifying power of music.
= AS an expression from your State
of it's interest in this broad and con-
s1ructive movement, will you send
one representative from your depart
Jfient of education to cooperate and
carry the spirit of the convention
back to your State?"
~ The Easter week festival activities
will open Wednesday evening with a
reception by the International Asso-
citation of Arts and Letters in honor
of the World Fellowship" at the
residence of Mrs. Henry f. Dimock,
a vice president of the association.
The morning exercises, April 16,
will include the presentation of the
Subject of World Fellowship" at the
Washington Auditorium, by repre-
sentatives OF the three great reli-
s5ous groups of the United States
Protestant, Catholic and Jewish, with
DR.. Phillips. DR.. Ryan and DR.. Simon
as the chief Spokesmen Music for
the occas sion will be furnished by the
Marine Band.
. Bach Choir to Sing.
At the afternoon session in the Au-
dftorium the Bach Choir, accompanied
by the Philadelphia Orchestra, will
give the great Bach B-Minor Mass,
which requires four and a half hours
IN it's presentation. 1t is the present
plan of the committee to have the
music begin at 4:45 in order that Gov
ernment officials and employees may
attend. At 6:45 there will be an in
termission of an hour and a half, the
Taass being resumed at Sis and con-
tinuing until 10:45. Prior to the sing
fng of the mass the Bach Choir will
be received by President and Mrs
Coolidge at the White House at 3
O'clock
Friday the University Club will en-
fertain in honor of the World Fellow
ship and other functions are being
arranged by leading organizations of
Wa shington.
Coincident with the festival there
will he Il special exhibit of original
Bach manuscripts and other effects Of
Interest at the Library of Congress
This exhibit will continue throughout
the three days festival.
%It is anticipated that many institu-
tlons of learning, especially women's
colleges, will take advantage of the
Easter holidays to send groups of
their students to Washington for this
Occasion, the most notable music
festival in the history of the National
Capital.