Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-24
CATHOLIC

THE program for Midnight Mass at
! ST. Patricks Church tonight
will be:
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"yeni Creator ,sinsenhergear
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ofiertory,, motette, 20 Mira Nox,; IA Adam
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During the communion carols will
be sung as follows
silent Night" ...... Damrosch
No Candle was There. ......... Lehmann
hlasf Rs Ieep Holy babe t Gandsn
The choir will be accompanied by
full orchestra and organ; the quartet,
Edna Hillyard Howard, Celia Flora
organist and director, Jennie Glennan;
on this occasion Lewis c. Atwater will
play.
An orchestra playing christmas
Morn" Barrett, and a quartet singing
Holy Night, Silent Night" Gruber.
quarter of an hour before midnight
celebration at ST. Mary's Catholic
Church. A solemn high mass. with
orchestral accompaniment, will begin
with the ringing of the church chimes
at midnight The celebrant will be
Rev. Charles j. Trinkhaus; deacon,
Rev. Clement J. Jordan, and sub
deacon, Rev. Callistus Rectenwald.
o. NJ. Cap. Rev. Dom Augustine
Walsh. o. s.. B., will preach the SER
mon.
The choir, under the direction Of
Armand j. Gumprecht, organist, will
present the following program: Ky
rie." Mass No. l. Gumprecht; Gloria"
E. Mario; "Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus
and Agnus DEL" from Gounod's st.
Cecilia's Mass; Graduate, "Ad Regem
Pastorum," Gounod; offertory, "Adeste
Fideles," Novello; c o m m n o n,
"Exulta Sion" Hammered; postlude,
20 Holy Night" Adam-Buck.
The members of the choir are: So
pranos, Nellie Carver, Dorothy T.
Smith. Virginia Carver, Mrs. II. Bode
and Master John Herman; altoS Mrs.
H. c. Herman and Helen Carver;
Davis; bassos, Charles Whalen and
Charles Goodchild.
There will be low masses at 6:15,
7:15, 8:15, 9:15 and 11:15 am. The last
low mass will be at midday. 1910.
| The children will sing Christmas
carols at the 9:15 mass, and the choir
will sing at the 1910 mass.
Beginning at 1870 o'clock tonight
| the choir of St. Paul'S Catholic
Church, under the direction Of Edward
P. Donovan, will give a special must
| cal program.
Carols will be sung during the half
hour preceding the mass, which will
begin promptly at midnight. These
| numbers include Nazareth" by
Gounod; 20 Mira Nox," by Adam
Biedermann. and the Damrosch ar
rangement of Gruber's "Silent Night"
gether with the same composers
"Benedicta es tn" at the gradual and
Novelties arrangement of "Adeste
Fideles" at the offertory. The recess
sional will be the old French carol,
Angels We Have Heard on High"
At the IL am. mass on Christmas
| day the choir will sing Marcos Mass
! in E Flat
Sunday at II am. the musical pro.
gram of the midnight Christmas serv-
| ice will be repeated.
The choir of ST. Aloysius Church.
under the leadership of Victor L..
Boenau, director and organist, will
| render the following program at the
midnight mass tonight: Professional,
"War March of the Priests" Mendels-
sohn; anthem, 20 Holy Night" Adam,
| sung by Miss Whalen and chorus;
! "Kyrie Gloria" Hammerel's mass in
honor Of Our Lady of Good Counsel;
"Veni Creator" Henry Rowe Shelley;
credo, Hammerel; offertorie, "Adeste
Fidelis," Mrs. Hubner and chorus;
sanctus. from Missa St. Cecilia,
Hammered; silent Night" quartet:
occasional
| The regular quartet, consisting of
Agnes Whalen, soprano; Theresa K.
| Hubner, contralto; Fred Evans, tenor,
and Gerald Whalen, basso, will be as
| sisted by Florence Sindell, soprano;
Hazel Arth, contralto; George Ander-
son, tenor, and Alvin Lake, basso.
| An eight-piece orchestra and organ
will accompany the singers.
The. following program will be
| given at ST. Peters Church to-
mass, by the mixed choir of 40 voices.
under the direction of Christopher
| Tenley: Second Mass in g." Du-
randi: 'Gesu Bambina," Von);
"Adeste Fideles," (Novello.; 20 Holy
Night" ADAM; Nazareth" (Gounod).
Before the mass the choir will sing
traditional carols, including THE First
Noel" ut Came Upon the Midnight
Clear" "Joy to the World" 20 Little
Town of Bethlehem" "Hark, the
Herald Angels Sing" "Sleep, Holy
Babe" and Silent Night" There
will be organ and orchestra accom-
paniment. The solo quartet consists
of Elizabeth Stewart, soprano; Rose
Guaraldi. contralto: George Cowles,
tenor; Romeo Guaraldi. baritone.
Music for the midnight mass
Christmas eve at the Shrine Of the
Sacred Heart will include: Before the
mass, Christmas Offertory," (Grison),
organ: ANGELS We Have Heard on
High" thirteenth century Bieder-
mani; Noel" FounodD; professional,
20 Dies Praeclara," (Gounod). In.
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