Evening star., 1934-03-25
Music in the Churches

/ ton of Charlotte Klein. will
u sing THE Darkest Hour" a
sacred cantata by the English
composer, Harold Moore
The soloiStS will be Esther Holden
4 Bibber, soprano; Vera Nicely Ross,
contralto; George r. Anderson, tenor;
J. Edgar Kidwell and @. Erbin
Thomas, bass.
The organ program will be 20,
Traurigkeit, o, Herzeleid," Brahms;
"Schmucke Dich, o, Liebe Seele," !"
Bach; "Tocata In F." Karg- Ebert.
The public is cordially invited.
This evening the choir of st. Johns
Church will sing Mozart's Requiem"
at 7:45 pm. instead of evensong. The
| public is invited.
Rossini's "Stabat Mater" will be
sung by the choir of Hamline Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, Sixteenth
! street at Allison, tonight at 8 o'clock.
| The oratorio will be sung in Latin.
! The choir of so voices is upder the
direction of John H. Marville and
Edith B. Athey will be at the organ.
The soloists are Ethel Stickles, So
/ prano; Mabel Plehr, contralto: John
| Murphy, tenor, and Mr.. Maryille,
bass.
The music for today at II am. at
the Church of the Epiphany. Adolf
! Torovsky, anist-choirmaSter, will
be "Benedicite in F." Stokowski; an
them, Fling Wide the Gates"
Stainer; The Palms" Faure. At 8
pm. the anthem Beside the Cross, /"
by Gounod, will be sung. The soloists
| will be Lillian Latham, Nancy Will
| hanson, Kroom Barganof and Am
brose Durkin. On Good Friday at 8
pm. the choir of the church will give
! the cantata THE Message From the
Cross" by Macfarlane, with the same
soloiStS.
The choir of Mount Tabor Metho-
dist Protestant Church of Georgetown
| will sing Stainer's cantata, The
| Crucifixion." Good Friday evening at
8 o'clock under the direction of Meta
Craig Turkenton. Ruth Dowling Hal
sted, contralto soloist of the Church
of the Holy City, will sing the aria
He Was Despised." from The Mes
Siah," at the offertory. Pauline Barnes
Woodruff is the organist.
The choir of Arlington Hall School
for Girls, under the direction of Nine.
! Vicarino. will sing today at the Ar
lington Presbyterian Church. Special
Easter music will include duet by
Ruth Darnell and William Tapp The
Cross" by Charlotte Cobb will be
| sung by Mr.. Tapp as the offertory
solo. w. w. House will be at the
organ.
The choir of the National Baptist
Church, under the direction of George
F. Ross, with Marguerite Allen Ross,
organist, will present Maunder's Prom
/ Olivet to Calvary" Good Friday night
at 8 o'clock. The SoloiStS are: Justin
Lawrie, tenor (guest SoloisD; Alfred
| Thompson, baritone Dorothy Scates
and Nina Poizet. sopranos; Vera Via,
contralto.
The American University Choral
Society, under the direction Of Harlan
Randall. will sing Maunders "Olivet
to Calvary" this afternoon at 4
o'clock at Metropolitan Memorial NJ.
E. Church. Carolyn Schoenthal. So
prano; Barrett Fuchs, tenor. and Ray
mond Robinson, baritone. will be the
soloists Mrs James Shera Mont
gomery will be at the organ. The
public Is invited.
On Good Friday evening. beginning
at O'Clock in the Mount Pleasant
Congregational Church, l4l0 Colum-
bia road, Stainer's The Crucifixion"
| will be given by the Mount Pleasant
chorus $50 voices), under the direc-
| ton of Norton NJ. Little, with Claude
Robson at the organ. The solos will
be sung By William P. Shanahan,
tenor, and c. E. Robb, bass. The pub
lie is invited.
This evening the solo quartet and
choir of Keller Memorial Lutheran
Church will give an Easter cantata,
The New Life" by James H. Rogers.
The solo parts will be sustained by
Virginia SellarS, Robert Ferguson and
Edwin Rogers.
At the morning service The Palms"
| (Faure) will be sung by the chorus,
with baritone solo by Eugene Stevens.
Jerusalem" by Parker will also be
sung, with solos by Virginia Sellars
soprano; Gladys M. Walin, contralto;
Robert Ferguson, tenor, and William
Martin, baritone. Gertrude Lyons is
director and Lillian G. Wines, organist.
At Washington Heights Presbyterian
Church, the tenor soloist, George A.
Myers, will be assisted by George
Mallet Provost, baritone. They will
give so Thou Liftest Thy Divine Pc
tition." from Stainer's "C-ucif1xion. ="
Mr.. Myers will also sing "The Palms"
| by Faure, and Jerusalem" by Par
ker. The organ numbers will be Ado
ration" by Borowski; Chant Tri-
omphal," by Gaul; 'E.egy," by Lacey,
and Song of Thanksgiving" by Dig
gle. Mrs. j. Harry Cunningham Is
organist.
The Palm Sunday music at Grace
Reformed Church, Henry H. Ranck,
pastor, will be:
organ Prs,uds MORNING.
| "A song Of Devotion. ....... Wilson
Mrs. William P. sutton.
Choir Anthem
Ride On. Ride On" "..........S Scott
Mrs. George M. Feidt. Soloist.
THE Palms" "................. .Faure
Mrs. Ernest A. Graves.
! FESTIVAL March" Harris
| EVENING.
Organ Prelude
| Prayer .Devred
Anthem by Quartet.
| The Spirit in Our Hearts. Shelley
| Solo
"Open the Gates of the Temple" Knapp
Amy A. Dustin.
Postlude-
| Ma CT .hoaHis
Wilbur G. Sindell is choirmaster
and Mrs. William P. Sutton will be at
the organ.
At the Sixth Presbyterian Church,
Sixteenth and Kennedy streets north
west, Faure's THE Palms" and
SCOTS anthem, ride On, Ride On"
will be sung at the IL o'clock services
today. Martha Rietzke, soprano, will
be the soloist. The choir will sing at