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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1916
Page
7
Across city churches Christmas music takes center stage with elaborate programs and carols old and new. Choirs perform from towers and offer cantatas andan organ recitals as morning and evening services celebrate the birth of Christ with selections from Mozart, Grieg and other masters.
Trinity Lutheran Church Camp Hill hosts Christmas events starting 7:30 PM with soloist Mary Belle Corbett and pianist Florence Rinkenbach. The program includes a cantata The Rose of Bethlehem by the adult school, led by H. M. Askins and Mrs. H. M. Shope, and a 7:30 PM cantata Peace and Good Will performed by the choir led by Rev. Dr. E. D. Weigle with a 9:15 AM Sunday service and 10:30 AM sermon.
St Stephen's Episcopal Church presents a 35 voice choir led by Alfred Kuschna with festive carols and anthems across Christmas Eve Midnight Service Christmas Day 11 o clock service and New Year’s Eve cantata The Holy Child by Thomas Adams At St Augustine's Episcopal Sunday night service features Advent hymns readings and pre Christmas address followed by Christmas hymns and liturgical selections from Goodson Novello and Paxton
ANNA HAMILTON WOOD writes for the Harrisburg Telegraph, praising Mary and the Nativity as a beacon of hope. The poem envisions a universal awakening to peace, despite looming strife, and frames the birth of Christ as a global message of reconciliation.
A multi church Christmas program features the Salem Reform ed Church choir with Mrs E C Thompson at the organ. Concert includes Prophecy and Fulfillment sections with soloists and a six o'clock Christmas morning service of carols and anthems. Other presentations at St John s Reformed Covenant Presbyterian and Fourth Reformed are listed with proposed cantatas and solos.
Christmas in the churches will be celebrated with special programs tomorrow and on Christmas Day. Carols, early services, and midnight masses mark the holiday with churches including Calvary Presbyterian Zion Lutheran Reformed Salem St. Pauls Episcopal and St Patricks Cathedral hosting services. Dozens will sing classics from midnight to Christmas morn as the Allison Hill Christmas Carol Association led by William A Fenicle prepares performances across the Hill district.
Complete children's Christmas program directed by the Knights of Columbus to be held tomorrow afternoon at Cathedral Hall. The lineup includes choruses from parochial schools, recitations, vocal and instrumental solos and trios, dances, and readings featuring Sara Maloney, Julia Neidig, Eileen Maloney, and Edna Santamaria among others. Gifts will be distributed at the close of the entertainment.
Augsburg Lutheran Sunday school class No. 5 will hold a musicale in the latter half of January. Committee: Earl Bildiger chairman, Winston Roming, Marrion Manbeck, Forrest Grundon. No date set yet.
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