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Show SPECIAL EASIER MUSIC AI HE CITY CHURCHES i Pretentions Programmes Given at Nearly All Houses of ' Worship. In no city fin the country wore the special Easter musical programmes at the various churches arranged with a greater display of care and artistic merit than in Salt Lake City. At every edl-llce edl-llce a special musical offering of some kind was made, the Catholic nnd Episcopal Episco-pal cathedrals being the most pretentious. Difficult masses and selections from the better known oratorios wore features. These, together with ambitious choir and solo work and an occasional violin iir I violoncello accompaniment mado up a complete and highly artistic. Easter musical mus-ical offering. At St. Marys cathedral a solemn pontlfi- ; cal high muss was celebrated. Clmerosa's j "Military Mass" being sung by the choir. 1 with a violin and violoncello accompani- inept. Gloria's "Venl Creator,'' a bass I polo by .1. W. Curtis, and Lnmbllotlc's "Allelulla." by :i mixed quintet le. com- 1 posed "f Mrs. Henry 1 lamer, the Misses Rosemary Holland. Kathleen Fltr.na trick, A. .1. Du Quckiio and J. W. Curtis wore the principal vocal numbers. The entire programme was conducted ably bv Miss j Nora Gleasnn. iho organist and director. A vested mixed choir of forty voices, assisted by Morris Andrews. violinist, held forth at St Marks ICplscopal cnthe-dral. cnthe-dral. The programme Included a number num-ber of solos, notably. "'Christ. Our Pass- , over." (f'happclle). bv T. JO. Harper; ! Schilling's "Te Damn Lnndmns." hy the Misses Osbourne and Morris and Tom "Wise, and "Agnus Del." (Cruickshank). by Miss Edna Hnlley. At the evening services "The Ressurrectlon." a sacred cimtnta by Charles Fonteyn Mnnney. was sung in it entirety. Tlie Knights Templar in full regalia attended the Raster service at the I'lrsl Congregational church, where an exceptional excep-tional musical programme wns rendered. The Raster programme at the Westminster West-minster Presbyterian church was ablv conducted hy Henry Bowles, the director, who sang "O Rest In the Lord." from Mendelssohn's Elijah In response to the prayer Miss Irene Kell sang Drcssler'n "Ye Rei)p of Easter Day.'' TIhto wero also special musical offerings at the Tlrst Baptist. Illrt Methodist Episcopal. First Methodist. Liberty Park Methodist Episcopal. Epis-copal. Swedish Lutheran and Phillips Congregational churches. |