Evening star., 1946-12-15

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be presented this morning in the
Lewis Memorial Church by the junior
and senior choirs and the following
soloists: Evelyn Davis, soprano;
Esther Cline, contralto; Joe Allen
Jones, tenor, and Franklin Armiger.
baritone. Goldsworthy's The
Christmas Story" will be special
feature. Bach,s Christmas cantata,
For Us q Child Is Born" will be
given Christmas eve. Dorothy
Guion is organist-director, and
Marie Cashdollar, assistant director.
The Christmas portion Of Handels
"The Messiah" will be given tonight
at 8 o'clock by the combined choirs
Of Calvary Baptist Church. The
soloists: Audrey Nassaman, soprano,
Ruth Hall, alto; Justin Tune, tenor,
and Herbert Pate, bass, all OF whom
are or have been connected with the
Westminster Choir, will assist. A
40-piece ensemble from the West
minister College Orchestra, Sander
Salgo. director, will play the ac-
compartment. Thomas Moss, Cal
vary Baptist organist, will be at the
console. Clyde J. Holt, minister OF
music, will direct the performance.
The Potomac Choral Club, directed
by Ramona Blunt, will present
Christmas programs In different
parts OF the city as follows: This
afternoon at 3 o'clock, West Potomac
Park residence halls; tonight at 7:30
o'clock at Foundry Methodist
Church, Young Peoples Association;
at Forest Glen tomorrow, 7:30 pm.,
and Tuesday, 7:30 pm, at Walter
Reed Hospital.
Beatrice Pinkney Jones, piano
diseuse, win be heard In q half-hour
program at $50 this afternoon at
All Souls Unitarian Church.
The YWCA Sunday music hour
at 4:30 today in Barker Hall Will
present the Telephone Company
Glee Club, led by Robert Davidson,
ST., with Gertrude Smallwood Mock
bee guest piano soloist.
This afternoon at 5, in the First
Baptist Church, Handel's THE Mes
siah" will be given by the Senior
a Cappella Choir, Carolyn Sullivan
and Mildred Weatherspoon. So
pranos; Ruth Reumann Hall, alto;
S. Earle Fox, bass, and Harwood
Hall, tenor director. Homer Knowles
will be at the organ.
Christmas choral music will be
sung at the candlelight service this
afternoon at 5 in Covenant-First
Presbyterian Church by the Chancel
Choir and soloists under the direc-
ton of Theodore Schaefer.
The third in a series Of Christmas
concerts viii take place tonight at
8 at Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Church, sung by the Angelus a Cap
pella Choir, directed by Margaret
Walker Barnwell. Wilbur Bullock
is tenor soloist and Edith Gotwalls
is organist.
The senior choirs Of Augustana
Lutheran Church, New Hampshire
avenue and v street NV, and OF
the Faith Lutheran Church, Airing
ton, Va, viii present jointly the
Christmas portion Of 'The Messiah"
twice today. It will be given in the
Faith Lutheran Church at 4 and
in the Augustana Church
at 3. r. E. Snesrud viii direct.
Christmas carols will be sung In
the Church of the Pilgrims by the
choir, led by Mrs. John Seaton, to-
night at 7:30. Minnie II. Volkmann,
soprano: John Seaton, violinist, and
Mark Walker, flutist, are the solo,
lists. Warren F. johnson, the or
ganist, will play canonical variations
on "Vom Himmel Hoch," by Bach.
Wilson's cantata, 'The Music OF
Christmas" will be given at the
Second Baptist Church tonight at 8
by the combined Chorus, Chapel and
B. T. Choirs. Edward A. Carey,
minister of music, will conduct.
Essley Juaire, soprano; Marjorie
Ball, alto; William N. Janson, bass,
are the soloists; Ethel C. Sorrell, the
organist.
Van Dykes "The Other Wise
Man." with organ accompaniment,
will be presented at the Western
Presbyterian Church tonight at 8,
recited by the Rev. D. Hobart Evans,
pastor of the Hyattsville Presby-
terrain Church.
Two pianists, Martha Sutton and
Herbert Lodge, and two vocalists,
Phyllis Richardson and Vivian
Burke, will be presented by Tamara
Dmitrieff and Frazier Gange in the
Jewish Community Center tonight
at $50. Naomi Biskin will be the
accompanist.
The National Press Club Chorus
and Dorothy Simmons, soprano, will
sing in the Naval Medical Center
auditorium, Bethesda, tomorrow
night. DR.. Reinald Werrenrath will
conduct, Gertrude Smallwood Mock
bee will be at the piano. On Christ
mas eve the chorus will sing Christ
mas carols at the national commune
ity Christmas tree program on the
White House grounds.
Jean M. Boardman and the Wash
ington Chapter, Local No. 199, Of the
Society for the Preservation and
Encouragement of Barber Shop
Quartet Singing in America, Inc,
,sss.sas.x,se:s.
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