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Chors to Snq Christmas Music in Churches Tomorrow and Sunday

Choirs to Sin!
Choirs of the city's churches
will commemorate the birthday
OF the Christ Child with musical
programs Christmas Eve and on
Christmas Day.
An elaborate program has been
arranged for the services In the
Washington Cathedral beginning
Christmas Eve At 1925 pm
Richard Dirksen, assistant organ
ist, will play four "Noels" by
d'Aquin, and three Bach chorale
preludes, "a Boy Is Born in Beth
lehem," From Heaven High" and
"When Angels from Heaven to
Earth Came Down." For the Holy
Communion service that follows,
the Choir will sing Vaughan Will
liams' Communion Service in d
Minor" Weelkes' "Hosanna to the
Son Of David" and Sowerby's "Oh,
Dearest Jesus"
A Communion Service" by Paul
Galloway, organist and choir
master will be sung at II o'clock
Sunday morning. Jacob Hands,
'Resonet in Laudibus" and Mag
mum Mysterium," will be other
vocal numbers. At 4 pm. Stra-
vinsky's Mass for Mixed Chorus
and Double Wind Quintet" given
its local premiere by the Cathedral
group at the National Symphony
concert last week. will be re-
peated. Among the carols to be
sung will be 1--WE Saw Thee in
Thy Balmy Nest" by Gordon H.
Smith OF the American Univer-
sity music faculty which will be
given a first performance.
In the Church Of the Ascension
and St. Agnes, a musical prelude
and carol service. together with a
solemn procession, will precede
the Midnight Mass. Donald K.
Arnatt, ofganist and director. will
open the service with six Christ
mas chorale preludes from Bach's
"Orgelbuchlein." Nicholson s
MASS in c" will be used for the
Solemn High Mass of the Nativity
beginning at 1h45 pm, together
with Shaw's unto Us a Boy Is
Born" and Handel's "Hellelujah
Chorus"
A Children's Carol and Candle
light service will be held in St.
David's Chapel at 4:30 tomorrow
and the Christmas Eve Choral
Eucharist will begin at II pm. A
similar service is announced for
II am. on Christmas Day.
Grace Episcopal Church, Silver
Spring, Md. will have a series OF
organ selections as prelude to the
Christmas Eve service, played by
Jean Phillips. The anthem will
be Barnaby's Like Silver Lamps"
At the II o'clock service Sunday
there will be special prelude and
postlude music.
Carols will form the main fea-
ture of the Christmas Eve and
Christmas Day service at st.
Johns Episcopal Church, Bethes-
da, Md. The Offertory anthem at
night will be Cruichshank's
when Jesus Was Born" and for
the morning service, Tours "Sing,
o Heavens"
The holy communion service
In Nativity Episcopal Church, at
1880 Christmas eve will begin
with the tenor solo. "The Coming
Of the King" sung by Robert Pohl-
mann. The anthems will be Vim
cents There Were Shepherds"
at the midnight service. and
Stainer's 20 Zion That Bringest
Good Tidings" on Christmas Day.
Joan Groncke Is the organist.
Soloists include Mr.. Pohlmann,
Andrea Kristen, Barbara Grimes,
and Noble Barnes.
Carols, with chimes accompani-
ments, at 11:15 Christmas eve will
usher In the Christmas celebration
at the Church Of Our Saviour.
Other carols will be sung during
the service with Wilhousky's
"Carol Of the Bells" as anthem,
and the old English "The Holly
and the Ivy" for the offertory.
The Holy Communion service on
Christmas Day will be at II am.
The senior choir of Transf1gura-
ton Episcopal Church will sing
Christmas hymns at the midnight
service Christmas eve. Manney's
arrangement of angels Ger the
Fields" Song Of the Angels" ar
ranged by Dickinson, and Adams
"Cantique de Noel" will be sung
with incidental solos by Edith
Jones and Leonard Holmes. The
Junior choir will sing Christmas
Day. Edith B. Athey is organist
and director.
An organ recital by Phyllis Haw-
kins will precede the Christmas
eve service at Christ Church
(EpiscopaD, Washington Parish.
The Anthem will be Stainer's
20 Zion That Tellest Good It'd
ings." Jungst's while Shepherds
Watched" will be sung on Christ
mas Day.
The principal Christmas serv-
ice in Calvary Baptist Church
will be Sunday morning. It will
be preceded by short organ pro-
gram by Thomas Moss. The choir
will sing the Bohemian carol.
'Let Our Gladness Know No End,
Bach's Break Forth, O Beauteous
Heavenly Light" and the Halle
lujah Chorus"
Christmas music programs will
be included In the services at the
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