Show HI I II HI H i H HI 1 HH HI II II I H II HI HII HI HI HH H j H I H THE COST OF NEW YORK YORI CHURCH MU MUSIC j j i H I H I h i nC now Mil wrinkles In ov 0 1 cry In churches I How lIow to 10 mal mala o tho services at It I so that they thoy will draw JL full houses Is 18 ono one of ot the problems which confronts tho modern church Indeed a 1 Illio a 11 theater Is obliged nowa to con conduct duct HB Ihl from tho box point of or says tho Now York Herald However tho Inclined may Y protest against t this stata ututo It IH true trul hoovel blunt in those churchel where tho th Herman HermanIs Is tB tho chief consideration con star preachers engaged to draw the tho crowd crowt In tho liturgical churches on the other hand those In which the tho Herman occupies Jut but butu u It brief portion of the tho time and Is II con can 1 rather a II subordinate feature of ot the tho service as liB n whole every Ocly effort Is la to mako mallo especial especially ly attractive and none moro more BO than the Organists and choirmasters of ot greater nn greater r ater oro being tho choirs are aro becoming er cr and larger and better belter trained and soloists many man of at whom me well known concert singers hu hl solo quartet H It Is l true truo that no noDean Dean do lie 2 mes or Is as jv Jot la to bo heard houd In III church Tho point has not yet been reached 1 when It to raise mise tho cur curtain tain H Il may be many years music In tho liturgical churches IH III put upon Ulion such an nn extravagant basis Hut lut cnn can tell teU when whon ono one takes as 1111 In l H H H I IH stances St church Ne I York where hero th tho clan ChilI wor or UI Bt a church In tho mime AlIn city J Morgan has his pow VOl and Is u regular attendant when wh tho of tho con COli will to havo their ious wafted upward on vocal Incense of ot tho money can 1111 procure and mako their contributions proportionately large t Hurh consummation would bo by no means the tho most surprising phenomenon of ot In III A YI At present however tho churched church ai Retting along with about us liS large an nn annual appropriation for us It takes to tho 1 on an opun ut lit which tho unusual sum of ot J i or 10 Is III charged for fUI an nn orchestral stall shill Mr out to mu that the tho of ot such a n perform performance ance about for COI n night and tho aver nOI ago Appropriation for church musical the year oar though some churches ChUIch S pay more Among these la Is tho chuich Ht which the Iho Hm Dr DI Is III rector rectal and Mr Henry Warren and choirmaster ter This hIs church expends something Ilko 1 to a YoU year on Its mu music sic and again reverting to oper operatic comparisons this amount may not n t seem extravagant the tho nt tho opera Is II not to bo ho mentioned In III tho breath with the choir of ot this church nor nOl Indeed with such lIuch as the J Morgan St O of which IH III organist t and choirmaster tho Church of the As Ascension cension over oer the music of which Mi Charles Chrles presides St Thorn IH H H I Hj l HI I lH II I Il I II Io H H I H f f f fo o 0 t x w Fashionable Churches in Gotham Doing Away Avoy With Boy Vanderbilt I Church Known as Si t Impends Expends Something Like to j a n Year on Its Vocalists Hundreds of Applications to Join the Choir 1 OB os with W V C All Souls with Walter 0 C Gale St Ht James with Walter lull Hull St HI Agnes Chapel with Mr Stubbs Grace Omel with Mr 11 stein who has 1118 a n regular choir school connected with the church old Trinity with Mr r Victor littler Th Till Church of ot the tho Archangel of which Mr Leo Is If organist choirmaster tel ter also 1180 has hM an nn excellent choir choll with vested women Instead of ot boys ST Sl I St Is ono one of ot tho lead leadIng Ico Ing churches In tho country countr which has no boys In III Its Ita choir employing women anI mono men Very pretty too tho women look In their thell vestments as they thO march marchIn In III out during the NOc or 01 recessional lec or while thuy occupy their seats In tho chancel This church was one OliO of ot tho first nl t In America to employ women choristers In III tho vested e choir Now not only are there thero half a dozen or more mora churches In III New York with NUh wo woo women men choristers Jut but tho number of oC thorn them Is constantly glowing throughout tho country I ery In Now York who has women In his hili vested ested choir Is 18 In receipt of letters from fro In other clUes cities asking for tor Information on tho or 01 for to I models mo els of the vestments the tho first choir of ot this 0 kind klo Is believed to have existed In Aus Australia A us tho spread ur this picturesque feature of ot church services Is so HI marked In hi this country that It II may be Jc consid considered ered eted a 1 distinctly American Institution It Is doubtful If It a single choir with vested In tho of at choir boys 1108 ul ts In J 1 Taking fo again as nil an un example St Ht because o It of ot tho largest In the country countr It In I found foun to bo composed between Jet fifty and lId sixty ty voices men I In of oC boys hoys nUll and men with four foul solo UtH A harp player In his vestments Kino adds to 10 tho picturesque appear anco of choir Tho divisions arc 1110 about as OH follows Twentythree r so sopranos Rt pranos t lU ten tenors and fourteen basses Ju sell They Jho havo on nn two rehearsals nIH u a v ek und and sing two nn Sunday Their romped u from 50 to In DOO OO n year Hut But of those who receive there rarely Is moro more than one In tn n 1 choir usually ally ully the with the brightest and I clearest who Is III td t the choir what I tho concertmaster In to un orchestra There will bo ho perhaps mo other Who HOO and 1100 whoso whose pay lIa Is 30 Hut But the croat nutty nf nt choir attend services at n compensation of 1 and that 1 I wild my In Informant begin to III pay them for tho work olk they th do Large sums of money oro quoted tc UH UK tin till price paid to tu church solo 1010 tats How Bol It may bo In other cities I do not know 1 but In Now New York Is no nn HUIlI thing at lit present nt leant as liS or 01 oven even salaries tun church solo singers From J 1000 to 1800 about tho highest sums represented In tho salary lists of ot tho best paying churches Hut popular solo find many lunny engagements nt It tho of members of thu tho congregation which may double or oven treble what they tho resolve from tho churches churchell them thum themselves selves Some ton years ago IlO thero thoro was a soprano who Is now no substituting In opera rIl who lio was then a II very ver popular concert singer and who received from the church In which she sho Banff the tho soprano solos Hut Hilt that salary Is III still mentioned as nil tho largest ever evoI paid In Now Noll YOlk t Is just as well that th large myth of church soloists should be bo exploded 0 U 11 leads to many trials struggles on the part of or singers to get to New Ne York or on the tho part of or singers In Now York to IH eUIe churl church h positions and In consequence Is responsible for BO so many soro 1010 disappointments heart healt trials A well ell organized church chUlch choir I IH HH II I ably has hn not more than ten tell a 1 year Yet thu tho of ot applications II 11 1111 IH III enormous Iron From three hundred l to 10 four foul hundred n II year IH III no exaggeration it Jt itIs Is Ilku III u tho thousands S of ot which annually i In upon a 1 editor who perhaps lion hM use lUIe for lOl forone lOlon one on hundred Every church linn hOIl 1111 choir hero tho choirmaster has hns his regular hearings for fOl applicants th musical to I of a II cumla opera he sits at nt tho piano und teats voices Usually ho h will havo about forty tort applicants of nn utI afternoon He II u III fortunato If among these ho hv find two to which aro UIO acceptable nit probationary voices Those who mo selected as 18 pro probationers aro required to attend r Ill and If they thoy fulfil expectations they tho 1110 taken Into till the as cles occur Tho most vol H to procure lire uru lino IIno showy show one Olle of tho boat known told m 1111 that In III trying voices ho he had been much Impressed with tho good which hlo been ruined by poor Ioor in III instruction this applied even to u women who have hao studied A voice Is III foi III eh work a voice which Is 11 sweet pure There Thero Is h still among choirmasters as 1111 to whether a choir choh of or mixed voices men and 11 Is III better than u II choir of at boys and men There 1110 choirmaster who ho say that for tor church chulch music no can over supply thC tho place of ot tho cho I Itel tel ter boys JON lull that t produce H II cor tain quality of tono lono different from the adult voices of o either olther ilex Ono One orna ornament ment Is that girl choirs lack the th of tone of boys ho s voices this must bo placed tho testimony of choirmasters who havo establish d mixed choirs In tho chancel notwithstanding standing the tho fact that a IL mixed choir IH hi hiA A A I 1 H H HIl H Hj I HH I If f 1 10 up ono with boys bos lloy HOYH 95 of f the i loading ur Now i i to mu 1110 had no previous Olno I with no l dean tie tho of ot Their 1111 voices onn be ho taken tallen and an tho choirmaster wishes many of till the woman who apply have had ous Instruction and when I 1 to tor my choir they the oil Oh Jut but Mr r Blank my teacher t always said no and MO HU l IllIn am obliged to train II III overy voice vol eo In hi my choir Juit If I w ero ro roa a II vocal teacher for tUI I 1 to a n uniform It II 1 II t of tono production Thin U II to fine and I have good simply be because beCI cause CI they kept throwing their former teachers in my na face ADULT BUST Ul who have had enca an co with Ith mixed to tu have reached the conclusion that ni OJ nia a Ii whole adult volos mingle butter They fh produce one mature ture quality of ur tone It H true truo boys hos high with CM voices holm Pitched about a IL tone higher than Hint of the average woman chorister Hut the average choir with boys only of or 11 tenor ami The fIll alto Is IH non In III Ina a II boy choir In euch tHICh a u choir choll the tho altos are 1110 apt to be he mongrel For good boy hoy allow me UIl very rare and good oo man mun niton me are not only hut but many consider tone ton t It H lIS cither falsetto or 01 countertenor Whatever tho difference of opinion however woman III In the vested choir It 11 hero herl to In III her 1111 vest oat Is I too ever oel everto to be hi put out of th AA LA A A AA A |