Milford chronicle., 1951-03-09
Avenue Church Choir
Planning For Easter
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glnla Llndale; Candles, Ida Wells,
Alma Rust, Anne Wiley, Mae Fox,
Doris Hobbs, Rosilyn Sharp, Joe
McFaul, Henry Saunders, Harvey
Williams, Robert Glasco and Jack
Baynum; Posters, Robert Layton,
Joyce ArgO, Roy Tawes, Jr., Kath-
leen Isaacs, Melvin James, Faye
Coffin, Doris Gibson and Joan Hall;
Robes, Mrs. Dean Kimmel, Mrs. AL
fred Bevan, Norma Prettyman, Dor
othy Cosci, Carolyn Coffin, Anne
Wiley Dolores Bostick, Frances
Abbott, Martha Wilson, ROsilyn
Sharp, Elsie Gillespie, Wilbur
Haight and Wilson Sockrider.
The Holy City" is in two parts:
The first section being that of
Contemplation" of the Holy City"
and the second, that of "Adora-
ton" of the Holy City-the New
Jerusalem. The text is primarily
scriptural.
ChOruses by the entire choir in
clude; mo Shadows Yonder," "They
That Saw In Tears" For Thee, o
Dear, Dear Country" "Thine Is The
Kingdom" Let The Heavens Re
jOice," '"The Filming Pot Is For Sill
yer" and Great And Marvellous
Are Thy Works" Let The Heav-
ems Rejoice" is an S-part choral
number for double choir. List The
Cherubic Host" will be sung by the
fOur-part girls choir with an obli-
cato to be sung by Vivian YOn,
Shirley Lancaster and Florence
Hearne and with the tenor solo
part to be sung by Alfred Bevan.
AT Eventide 1t Shall Be Light"
will be sung by the following girls
Of the girls double sextet: LIST So
pranO, Vivian Yon, Shirley Lancas-
ter, Virginia Scott and Florence
Hearne; 1st alto, Mildred Burton,
Constance Hugg, Ida Wells and
Dolores BOstick; End altos, Anne
Wiley, Alma Rust, Doris Hobbs
and ROsilyn Sharp.
The solOists will be: Mrs. Frank
YOn. soprano, who was formerly
sOlOist at the Fulltertown Avenue
Church in Chicago, and at the First
Congregational Church in Evans
ton, Illinois, She will sing mo
Weeping YOnder." ." "These Are They
Which Came" and the soprano part
in the duet "They Shall Hunger No
More" with Mrs. Clyde Nelson, con-
tralto.
Miss Shirley Lancaster, soprano,
who sang with the Christ Methodist
Church Choir in ChestertOwn, Md, |
before coming to Milford. She will |
sing, MY Soul Is Athrist For God"
Mrs. Clyde Nelson, the assistant
choir director, contraltO sOlOist, /
who was formerly soloist at the
Westminster Presbyterian Church /
of Lincoln, Nebraska, and at the
Presbyterian Church of Dover. She
will sing. Eye Hath Not Seen"
and the contralto in the duet, |
They Shall Hunger No More"
Alfred Bevan, tenor, who was
formerly tenor sOlOist at the Larch-
mont Baptist Church, The Church
of the Good Shepherd, and The Free
Mason Street Baptist Church. all of
Norfolk, Va He will sing "A New
Heaven and a New Earth" and Il
Heard The Voice of Harpers."
Wilson Sockrider. tenor, who has
been superintendent of the Avenue
Church Sunday School for several
years, and who did some choral
work with the Army He has been
4 member of the Avenue Choir for
some time He will sing ITO The
Lord Our God"
Henry Saunders, Jr. bass, who
sang with the RandOlph-MacOn Col
lege Choir of Ashland, Va. Local
remembers Mr. Saun-
ders' fine rendition in "The Mikado"
in the Milford High School presen-
tatiOn. He will sing Come, Ye
Members of the first choir for
the chorus, Let The Heavens Re-
iOice," include: 1st soprano, Vivian
YOn, Shirley Lancaster and Flor
ence Hearne; Altos. Ida Wells, AL
ma Rust and Anne Wiley; TenOrs,
Alfred Bevan, Wilson SOckrider and
Robert Layton; Bases, William
Wells, William Wilson and Henry
Saunders, Jr. The entire remainder
Of the sixty-voice choir comprise
the second choir for this chorus.
The minister of Avenue Church,
Rev. Roy L. Tawes, will give the
invocation and benediction.
The church will be decorated with
palms, Easter Lilies and 120 white
taper candles. Mrs. Leroy Short is
chairman of the decorating COM
mittee from the w. S. G. S.
Preceding the cantata, at 3:45,
Mrs. E. T. Hurley will play familiar
Easter and Lenten hymns in
chimes on the organ and will also
follow the benediction by a candle
light recessiOnal by the choir ac-
cOmpanied again by chimes of we'll
loved hymns. Mrs. Hurley's post
lude will be "Triumphal March,"
Apus Sc, by Edward Grieg.
The choral professional will be
the favOrite Easter hymn, Christ
The Lord Is Risen Today"
The public is cordially invited to
attend this sacred choral concert,
The Holy City" in Avenue Church,
Palm Sunday, at p. m.