Evening star., 1947-03-30
Church Choirs
|Offer Music
of Holy Week
By Alice Eversmon

BY Alice Eyersmon
The solemn season OF the Pas
siontide is one that has inspired
composers from the earliest Chris
tian times to create some OF their
finest works. They have put into
music not only the tragic events
that took place nearly 1000 years
ago but mankind's sorrow and peni-
tence had its part in them. They
have kept before the minds of
Christians the great truth that
through, suffering in life, clothing
it in the. language of music and
thus surrounding 1t win special
aura OF beauty.
This Holy Week, the churches
OF Washington will commemorate
the drama that ended on Calvary
with appropriate musical programs
beginning with the services today
in which the singing of Faure's
The Palms" will recall the palm
strewn streets of Jerusalem.
Sowerby's "Forsaken of Man."
based on the story of the Passion
and dedicated to the late Bishop Of
Chicago, the Right Rev. George
Craig Stewart, will be given in the
Washington Cathedral this after
noon at 4 O'Clock. Paul Galloway,
organist and choirmaster, will di-
rect the choir of men and boys.
Solo parts will be sung by Paul
Hume, Everett Palmer, Lawrence
Brice, Louis Denit, George Nc
Whorter, Richard Glen and John
Ellingwood.
Malling's Seven Last Words will
be given in All Souls Unitarian
Church by Lewis Atwater, organist,
assisted by Mrs. Henry T. Parrett,
soprano, this afternoon at S.
The Sanctuary Choir of Mount Ver-
non Place Methodist Church will sing
Haydn's "The Seasons" tonight at
8 in the church under the direction
of r. Deane Shure. Soloists will be
Margaret Barnwell, soprano; Audry
Prindle, contralto; Ivan Genuchi,
tenor, and Edwin Rogers, bass.
Dorothy Girdner Bailey will be at
the organ.
Kodaly's 'tMissa Brevis,' which
had it's American premiere here in
January, will be repeated by the
Chancel Choir tonight at $3.50 in
tho rovopo,,t Eyrcf Draehr4o.;,,,
Church. This work, which was con-
Quoted by the composer at its first
performance, will be given under the
direction of Theodore Schaefer.
Poulenc's motet, "Tenebrae Factae
Sunt," will preced the "Missa
Brevis." Faith Harlow Swank,
George Barritt, Harold Ronk and a
trio of treble voices: Katharine
Hansel, Margo Legge and Rachel
Koerner, will participate.
Stainer's 1.-THE Crucifixion" will be
given by the Senior A Cappella
Choir with Harwood v. Hall con-
Quoting in the First Baptist Church
at 8 tonight. Orville Loeffler, tenor
Carroll Kelly, Y. 1/c, U. S. NJ, bari
tone, and Earle Fox, bass, will be the
soloists.
The first performance in Wash
inggton of Martin Shaw's 1.-THE
Redeemer" will take place today at
4:30 in Metropolitan Memorial
Methodist Church presented by
Louis A. Potter directing the choir
of so voices. Solo portions will be
sung by Annabelle Hoge, soprano;
Charlene Fieldner, contralto; Howard
Clayton, tenor, and Robert Guy
baritone.
The Choirs of Takoma Park Pres
byterian Church and Georgetown
Presbyterian Church will combine
for the presentation of Dubois
Seven Last Words" today in the
Takoma church at 4:30 pm. and in
Georgetown at 8 pm. Anne O'Brien,
harpist, will assist and soloists will
include Winifred Clark, Julia Ellis,
Margaret Wilmington, Louise Win
field, sopranos; Louetta Macleod,
Mildred Snesrud, contraltos; Everett
F. Brown, Lawrence M. Gates,
Robert Macdonald, tenors, and
Frank M. Abeel, baritone. Nancy
Poore Tufts and William o. Tufts,
jr., are organists of the churches.
The "Hallelujah" Choruses by
Mozart, Beethoven and Handel will
be sung at the o'clock service to-
night in Foundry Methodist Church.
Identical musical program will be
given at the $50 am. and II am.
services when the anthems, "The
Day He Rode as King" by Booth,
and Faure's Palm Branches" ar
ranged by Justin Lawrie, will be
sung.
Henry Parker's Jerusalem" will
be sung at the morning service in
Chevy Chase Baptist Church by the
choir and quartet. Norma Simonson,
soprano; Olive Stingle, contralto;
Everett Bentley, tenor, and Thomas
N. Leef, bass and director, will be
heard in Bucks arrangement of
Faure's "The Palms" Louise Eli
oft, soprano, will sing open the
Gates to the Temple" at the eve
ming service. Myrtle Alcorn is
organist.
The Lenter pageant, 'The Com
tinuing Resurrection" will be given
in the Mount Pleasant Congrega-
tional Church tonight at 7:3O.
Haydn's ''The Passion" will be
sung by the choir under the direc-
ton of Adolf Torovsky in the
Church of the Epiphany tonight at 8.
The choir of Christ Church
Georgetown, as sponsors of the
organ fund project, will sing
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