The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-07-07
CHOIRS OF FOUR STATES
WILL SING AT FESTIVAL
Hundreds of Trained Voices Will
Be Heard in Hymns of Praise
And Christian Worship
PARTIAL LIST IS GIVEN

Hundreds of trained choir singers
from four states will lift their voices
in hymns of praise and Christian wor-
ship when they assemble at Mountain
Lake Park on July Is, 16, and IT, for
the Mountain Choir Festival, now in
it's fifth season.
A partial list of choral groups and
organizations from Maryland, West
Virginia, Pennsylvania and Virginia
released by Rev. Felix G. Robinson,
director, gives an insight into the
quality Of the performance that will
be presented during the three-day
period.
Among the competing cholrs viii be
the Cumberland Valley Choristers, of
Hagerstown, Prof. Charles M. Cassel,
director; Potomac Valley Chorus, OF
Keyser, w. Va; Oakland Community
Choir; Washington Irving A Cappella
choir, Prof. Clarence c. Arms, direc-
tor, Clarksburg, W. Va; Jefferson
High School A Cappella Choir, Mrs.
Dwight Thayer Shaw, director, Falls
Church, Va.
They will participate in the adult
choir contest on Sunday afternoon,
July II, and compete for awards of
500, $50, and $25. One of the two
anthems which adult choirs must sing
is the contest anthem for 1888, "Christ
of the Fields and Flowers" written
especially for the festival by DR.. Har-
vey Gaul, Pittsburgh composer. Choirs
in this contest will be vested and have
a minimum of 20 voices. During the
first four seasons At different choral
organizations participated.
In the junior choir contest, sched-
uled for Saturday afternoon, July 16,
will be found the Highland Avenue M.
E. junior choir, Fairmont, W. Va,
Mrs. Virginia Craft, director; Trinity
Lutheran junior choir, Keyser, w. Va,
Mary Evelyn Sliger, director; First
Lutheran junior choir, New Kensing-
ton, Pa, Prof. Robert Kunkle, direc-
tor; st. Marks Lutheran intermediate
choir, Mrs. Felix G. Robinson, direc-
tor; First M. E. junior choir, Elkins,
w. Va, Mrs. Wilbur Mason, director.
Choirs in this group will have mini
mum of Is voices, aged 6 to Is, and
will be vested Two numbers will be
sung, one of which is selected by the
addition committee of the festival,
90 Saviour Hear Me-" by G. W. Won
Gluck. Awards will be $50, SIS, and
$40.
There will also be a hymn contest
Saturday afternoon open to male and
mixed quartets. Participants will
compete for an award of $25. In this
contest will be The Southern -Four, of
Morgantown, W. Va.
Non-competing choirs who will as
sist in the combined choral presenta-
tons include Hagerstown A Cappella
choir, Prof. Raymond Hollinger, direc-
tor; Martinsburg Choral Society, I'M
der Prof. Hollinger; Frostburg Com
munity Choir, Prof. Maurice Matte
son, director; Grafton Community
Choir, DR.. Matthew Lundquist, direc-
tor; Fairmont Community Choir, I'M
der DR.. Lundquist, the Falls Church
choir, Prof. Thomas Martin, director
of Dunn Loring, Va; Cumberland
Community Choir, Wallace Ashley
director.
Competing choirs and other groups
will combine for the presentation OF
the oratorio, Elijah, on Saturday even
ing, with Reinald Werrenrath, metro
politan opera star, in the leading role
assisted by M. P. Moller, Jr., anc
other celebrated artists, and will also
take part in the singing of the choral
eucharist on Sunday evening when
will conclude the festival.
The combined choir will be heard
over the Columbia broadcasting sys'
tenn on Saturday afternoon and again
on Sunday afternoon, July 16 and IL
Guest conductors will be Prof. Hoi'
linger, and DR.. John Finley William
son. Station WMMN, Fairmont, will
handle the broadcast.
Special groups to appear on Che
program throughout the three days
will be Maryland musical artists
from Cumberland, Hagerstown, anc
Baltimore, in a presentation OF the
Maryland Federation of Music clubs
on Friday evening; Woman Chora
club, Homestead, Pa, Saturday after
noon; Homestead Folk Ensemble, Of
Elkins, w. Va, Prof. ID. f. Folger
director, Friday afternoon; brass
quartet, Rev. George Kunkle, director
Accident, Nd, in connection with the
outdoor professional on Sunday even