Evening star., 1936-12-19

IL,
bass and director. Efie A. Collamore
Is organist and Junior Choir director.
Mrthuhtat Erthrupal
| SnutH
THE combined choirs of Trinity
Methodist Episcopal Church and
Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, totaling $50 voices, will render
a program of Christmas music and
carols at Epworth Christmas Eve at
| 7:45 o'clock
The program will be repeated Sum-
day evening, December 81, at the
Trinity Church.
THE PROGRAM.
"Rhapsodie on Christmas Themes"
"Shsis "Shsistmas Eve" MsIIins MM'.E
Candle light professional
"Hark! the Herald Angels .,,, snE"
ANGELS. From the Realms Of Glory,
| Smart
Prayer
"shepherds Christmas Song"
I'm Bethlehem Meath Starlit Skies,'
ANGELS Ger the Fields" Dickinson
orssn San,. cffertory. "Fantaisie sur deux sonn..
Hymn, While Shepherds Watched 80
The Shepherds. Story" Dickinson
"Gesu Bambino' " Yon
Christmas" Shelley
"Gentle Mary Laid Her Child"
and There Were shsphefds sa5sssasA cShia Miisen
| The Heavens Are Telling" Haydn
ResssSSiSoIal: 20 Little Town OF p.an..
soloists for the program are Mar
gerry T. League and Eva Goebel. So
pranos; Lenna Orr Gauss and Anne
G. Smith, altos; John M. Hall and
R. Stuart Black, tenors; Robert Ewing,
James A. Payne and Leslie Munro,
bassoS; Sam Miller, f1autist.
Emma Louise Thompson is director
of the Trinity Choirs. while Robert
Ruckman directs the Epworth Choirs.
The Mount Vernon Chorus of go
voices will give program of Christ
mas carols written by contemporary
American composers, four Of whom
are Washingtonians, tomorrow at
o'clock at Mount Vernon Place Meth
odist Episcopal Church. South. The
numbers by Harvey Gaul of Pittsburgh
were sent TO Deane Shure especially
for this occasion and several are given
for the first time anywhere. The
program follows:
Carol Of the Doves" Harvey Gaul
.'voices of the ths SKY on3les alexander Mathews
"cboral rantass Dsv5n oa Msanles silsne Night"
Ellen Jane Lorentz
The Chorus.
The Solo Quartet: 49,.
..oa,.,.. r ~ wo.r. The Chorus: d.. s,.n..
LaVersne Sims Fairehiid and
Lily Garrett.
"a Brilliant Light Shone in the Sky"
Dorothy Radde Emery
..n,,,. =, N,a,Is The Chorus Van d.- Water
Might OF NisntS a1tbur rsbbutt van Ger water
How Bright on the Hillside.
The Chorus.
Quest Of the Shepherds" Harvey Gaul
The Chorus.
Edith F. Gottwals at the organ and
Deane Shure conducting.
The quartet Of Francis Asbury
Methodist Church, Sixteenth street
between Irving and Lamont streets,
composed of Fannie Shreve Heartsill,
soprano and director; Helen Marie
Koontz, contralto; Ellsworth Condron,
tenor, and Fred C. Schaefer, bass, with
Allen H. Watson at the organ and
assisted by Stuart j. Dewey. trum-
peter, and a vested choir of 20 voices,
will give the following program of
special music tomorrow morning at
the IL O'Clock service:
.HSeSe HRefe' We're eie Shepherds N--D,-Vinesnt -
"HaIleiujah Chorus" drom The Mes:
siahp -------------- haenoei
The music at Marvin Methodist
Episcopal Church, South tomorrow
will consist of the following organ
numbers:
prelude on Adeste Fideles," by
Kreckel.
Christmas Pastorale," by Harker.
"Glory to God on High" by Karg-
Ebert.
For the offertory Leona Otterson will
sing 20 Holy Night" by Adam.
The evening service will be devoted
to a pageant and Christmas carols
sung by the young peoples choir. The
music is under the direction of Macon
McArtor.
At ST. .Paul,s M. E. Church South
Thirteenth and Crittenden streets
northwest, the anthem, arise,
Shine" by Geibel, and the offertory
quartet, There Were Shepherds" by
Vincent, will be sung at the morning
service and in the evening the anthem,
"Sing, o Heavens" by Hawley; offer
tory quartet, 20 Holy Night" by
Adam. J. Nelson Anderson is choir
director and Mrs. j. Nelson Anderson,
organist.
There will be a special candlelight
service held in the Clarendon Meth
odist Church, Arlington, Va, Tues
day evening at 8 o'clock. The pro-
gram will consist Of numbers by two
mixed quartets, women's chorus, two
choruses from Handel's Messiah"
"And the Glory of the Lord" and
the "Hallelujah Chorus" Several
carols and readings will be used in the
program.
and directed nv Mrs n " Porter will