| Show church choir statistics statistics recently taken of the differ ent church choirs of this city and brooklyn makey ather interesting reading ih no itie the country if inthe world ara such sums expended for soloists of au kids for organs choruses and music generally in sev york there are nixed n quartets as quartets madeep of soprano contralto tenora and lass are called besides this number there are twenty four churches which support a chorus choir in addition to a paid quartet in seventy seven churches there are chorus chaira and churches have congregational singing usually led by the organ or by a salaried double mixed quartets are utilized by seventeen different congregations in some cases there being a first and quartet one singing aj the morning service and the other at night in such basea the first quartet usually is under salary thirty one churches have volunteer choirs of all kinds then there are thirty three choirs made up of boys or of boys and men one new york church has an entire orchestra in addition to the choir in five jewish synagogues the music is led by the cantor there being no choir in brooklyn there are ninety six mixed quartets and twenty nine churches with both quartet and chorus choirs there are forty seven chorus choirs besides th above and thirteen double mixed quartets thirty five congregations sing their own music and twenty one employ doy soloists and choristers cho thirty four churches have no choirs and in nineteen the music is rendered by volunteer ringers there ara two male church quartets and one childrens choir the latter is the only example of its kind in the country new york times |
