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5000UWINGS” CHOIRIN TEXASBY OONRAD CLARKiHOUSTON, Texas More than 4400 |music lovers, including both whit* and colored, heard the Kev, Gienn T. Settle and his famous, Wings Over Jordan* choir on Sunday afternoon at the City Auditorium, he.e in Houston, Texas, jjThe program, scheuuied for 3:30was not able to start until 4 o'clock, due to the crowd, which started trickling in from 3:30 until after the program waa well on its way. |** ue uuil, whL h haa a seat ngcapacity of 440u, was cruwueu oprogram time, and the ushers hauto scurry around to place chairs.The ci*.ilr was sponsored by the Greater nouston Lodge of EEiEks,No. 10^9, IBl*OE of W, and chair* man was F. M. Robbins, Slate Director of Education. )During the intermission Rev. Settles spoke, and after telling of j the tmve s of his choir, and of the colored man s contribution in this “global'* war, he concluded, “when this war ie over, there shall be no North or South, white or colored, but just all united loyal cttuens thlt;Of tho United States.”Also speaking was State Direr- *r;tor of Education, F. M. Robbins, wl who spoke in behalf of the E ks, ho and told of the work that the De- nei partment of Education which is m headed by Judge W. C, Hueston of ^ Wash.ngton, D. C. Mr. Robbins, a be graduate of Prairie View Normal, I w* holds the degree of B. A. from the dk] Houston College for Negroes,1 -**«Houston, Texas.ALer the concert. Dr. Settle and * his choir went to Camp \»allace to ^ entertain the officers and members g*vMrTof the 33rd Battalion. AARTC.Soloists for the group are, Cecil Dandy, Clarence Smalla and William Peoples, tenors; EmoryBarnes, bass; Esther Overstreet, Gladys Houser, Hattie Easley, sopranos; Dorothy Clark and Alice hellt; Thompson, contraltos, and Joseph Ma Powe, the director of the choir. 1 joylt; Assistant directress is Hattie: ^Easley, a nat.ve of Oklahoma City, 9:3£Oklahoma. toPROGRAM SidiTHEME: GO DOWN MOSES j play1—So Glad x ..■ .: j-iMr.2—Wheel In The Wheel 1 Tl3—In the Kingdom of the Lord | tens4—Show Me the Way 4 that5—Judgment Day is Rollin’ 'Round end;,4 jMNtjl ■ . the7—Just How Much We Can Bear to j8—My Desire 1 /■ j * I Tl9—Just A Closer Walk With Thee Nou10—Rock My Soul I mcrjINTERMISSION | uporRemarks on behalf of the Elks, Indu F. M. Robbins, State Director ofiyV/twerepresiEducation.'t ~3—Home In That Rock I vice•—-Witness asst.In The River of Jordan -*ls,5—Until I Found The Lord Tt6—Quartette igh7—Staff In My Hand ;hip8—Joshua Fit The Battle •—TodayFinale: God Bless America. » Thi Among the numbers that had to of tl be repeated by the soloists were: cnia|*I'y Desire” and Today” by Ce- folUn cil Dandy; “Staff In My Hand,” year: by Dorothy Clark; “Witness by John Joseph Powe, and numbers ren- How* dered by Gladys Houser, Esther Chah Overstreet, and the Quartette. jng lt;On Monday the choir left Hous- sistax ton on its tour that will include j Th( Oklahoma City, and after more I tende than 2 months on the road, will I game return to Cleveland on March 1. j dHi Y
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Call and Post
Cleveland, Ohio, US
Sat, Mar 06, 1943
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