Notes - Choristers Guild

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Notes
(Mrs. Jacobs)"Christian Character Through Graded
Choirs"
People may say: " I don't know anything about music but
I know what I like."
We answer: " You like what you know."
We can teach heligious Education indirectly in a choir
and through self expression pupils become their own teachers.
Recognize that each child. is an individual. Some will learn
faster than others. Some are willing; some not willing to
learn; children sometimes may not have a well established
background for music. (Iliustratisn; Kalaedescope; sometimes you get the same pattern; sometimes different
patterns.)
We are not teaching a subject; We are training children.
We must appeal in our work to the whole child; doing, seeing,
creating, thinking. •
We will have to recognize that we are only a part of the
overallpicture of the educational program of the church.
Unless we give to the child everything we can in the
alioted time, nothing much is accomplished. Synchronization
thf interest it- the important thing. The child. should have
one composite picture of what we are telling him.
Our methods can never be successful unless they can be progressive.
Let us analyze what ve have done after each rehearsal.
rehearsal is not a successful one unless it is successful
to the children. The children must accept what we have done.
Alertness keeps us growing. (he individual, don't copy or
imitate anyone)
Have regularity; Let the children memorize-standing by your
word is important.
Carry the children on thear way; You are the director.
The ministers need to be educated to the music program of
the church.
Some sirectors have a whole lot of nonsense and not much sense.
The child absorbs much from the director who must be mature in his
own thusical taste.
Organization is a must in the Qraded Choir Program.
The children will absorb from the methods of teaching which
use. The best methods are those which are availabe through
the public school m4sit system.
We are teathing--not music, but training children.
Notes-Southwestern Southwide Church Music Workshop
Materials for Graded Choirs-Distribution of boys choirs: 600
members of Choristers Guild. (Graded Choir materials letters
annually 2.00). It is fun to discover new techniques. The
musical or technical phase of education with children, Kindergarten, First, Second and Third Grade. Aren't very much value
in performances. Not let them singon the basis for which they
will be judged for their singing. It is a complicated procedure. The ear has to register that tone and then your ear has
to reproduce the tone. Monotone with a year or two of guidance
can learn to sing properly. Don't be concerned too much about the
monotone in your choir. By and through association with the
choral group, he will learn what is expected. Singing without
particular criticism of the tone; the real basis for children's
singing is Rhythm. It begins in the feet and ends in the feet.
From time to time in Memphis we go to a colored broadcast.
Musically it is very; fascinating. They call it a choir, but it
is really only an assemblage of various kinds of people. The
tones they use always belong. Rather harsh and penetrating,
but interesting. We have too many inhibitions. The same people
have the real sense of phonetic rhythm. Rhythm is not the time
a note is held, but we are to establish with the children a
feeling of movement. Your children are to start with developing
Rhythm as a game. With. action: Let them use little games and
verse. .ciusical walking "Let's Go Walking"(A.S.Booki) "Run and
run and run and run along". Have a number of weeks just uding
that alone. The safest Way To Travel With Children Is the Slow
Way. "Skip and. skip, etc." The basic approach is the Church
approach. The public school has "Book I and II"-Birchard):If
you have a large gro:p, put them in sections. Your greatest
asset is rhythmic instruments. Rhythm Pand--Let the children
help you to make their instruments.
Rhythm Stick's -i{
to l5 commercial cost of rhythm band set. You
can buy Bowling in 12k se4,1engths.The little ones make a light
sound. A drum is a good thing to have. Make your drum = nd cover
with rubber or something. A board shoud be used, and use the
simplest kinds of music. Rhythm Games; Imitation: Point to things
on board. Pick out those who aren't watching. Point to children
after you make a picture on the board,such as a house and rain
falling. Anything using rhythm. (Rain-drops-let the children make
the raindrops fall). Use your imagination. Must be one repeated
action. Use public school music ideas. (Hammer a nail, and have
the things there. Stories about building a house.
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Nail
Nail
Nail
Nail
Nail
Nail
(Let child hammer the nail on the board)
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Think of your melody beforehand. Keep in your notebook; "Ham-mer..
Ham-mer2: "Tick Tock", etc.; "Dickery-Dickery Dock" (Pendulum
sweep) Magic Stick, Pole with
T-T-T-T
Combine tonal values. Different tones on . See if the children
can find long nails, and horseshoes. These have beautiful sounds,
almost like church heels. Other activities such as bounce catch
the ball. "Bounce-Catch", etc. Only one step at a time. Don't
go beyond the learning ability of the child. (Move a scarf with
music; Up and Down. The simplest kind of action. Plan carefully
the music that you will use.)
In Union Theological Seminary, I asked the students for different
listings of rhythms:
(1)Walking
(2)Running
(3)6kiping
(4)Bouncing a ball
(5) Jumping
(6) Rowing
(7) Hammering the nails
(8)Skating
(9)Ridirn a pony
(10) Swaying trees
(11) Hopping
(12) Swaying
The Bell Ringers: Down and Up- a very simple rhythm(13)
(14) Flying like birds.
We are afraid to use our imagination. Don't let the children
think that the things they do are silly.
" Rhythmic Games and Dances"-fl ughes(The American Book Company)
(15) Walking like an elephant.
(16) Scurrying like seuirels
(17) Rocking the baby to sleep.
(18) Hop catch
(19) Jumping the rope
(20) Cowboy on horse; the horse pawing the ground; lasso has
to be wound up and thrown ("The Cowboy"-Book 2A.S. )
(21)Indian dancingThere are 2 kinds of rhythm. (1) Exact rhythm (2) Free Fantasytaking the subject and developing on it.
(22) Grinding corn
(23) hopping like jack in the box
(24) Swimming
(25) Vdndmill(See A.. Book)
(0) 61imhing stairs
(27) swinging
(28) blacksmiths Anvil
(29)iqerr;-Go-Round
All of these are some that the children, will enjoy. Employ all
the freedom that you can think of. Being able to move freely.
Rhythm does not have to he learned. It is there from the
beginning. 4/4 time is actually 1-2, 1-2, 9/8 is 1/2/3, 1-2-3 1
123, etc.
Note values: Circle (whole note ): circle which has a stem on it
(half-note) ; painted circle with a stem(quarter) ; painted circle
with a stem and a flag(eighth note): The eye should train the
Children. The mathematical division.
In music call it the whole note.(Use irish potato, or whole apple).
Use blackboard. " I will give half to you and half to Johnnie.
Cut it in two again. "Your mother gave you a quarter of an apale".
When you dray pictures, put them equally apart.
Illustration
"If vour mother is goina to make an apple aie, we must cut them
smlier. The Lfth note is almost like the quarter note but we add
a flag. We could divide them once again." Let the children write
the oicture of this note?" Use aple about 2 different rehearsals.
Let the children put the pieces to" ether, then someone else points
on the board.
Get a collection of flash cards-Gambel-Hinged Co. Have the children
raise their hands. A croquet ball with dowels inserted will serve
in explbining the note-values and divisions. Let Jun i ors make
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their own flash cards with the questions and answers on the
back. Give each of the children a page for their notebooks.
note. Give stars. Then put combinations
T his is a
of notes on the board.
Then use rhythm sticks. "Which one am I clapping or steeping
now?"
Will you be moving Fast or Slow. (whole note) The elephant walk
1234(Beat on drum) From this point go to increasingly come
plicoted measures. Don't use dotted notes. The children should
have knowledge of time signatures. "Look through your hymnals"
The 2 numbers roast mean something. The top one tells you how
many "counts" there are in a measure. The other number tells you
what kind of note. Don't say "Beats". 6/1 = 1 of those little
pieces. Go back to one. The surest growth-is the steady growth.
Don't do but about one game for each class session. You should
have at least 6 or 8 different activities.
Difference in pitches: ba rite a little tune just as we have them
in our song books.
Scale
Marching right up the stairs:
Ladder
"Jp the ladder we must go" point on board.
"The scale is sucn a simple thing. It goes right up and down
again." Think of all of the different combinations you can of
the acale.
Illustration
Clap or Tap
Simple £1easure: Helpful in fastening in their minds the note
values. I believe that we have not arrived at the real approach,
and the infallible one. The way you learn to sing differs in
individuals. Individual people require individual attention.
You have to recognize and see what the different intervals are
like. Start with the simplest ones. Another plan is to have in
mind different well known hymns; intervals of a 6th. "The
Old Oaken Bucket."
Learning Fundamentals Through Games and Activities
(Mrs. Jacobs)
The reel pnrpose in this child-training is not to show off
an outstanding choir. The real pur ose is to train the children.
what to do with monotones( Encourage the child. I think that the
first aporoach will he to teach the children to match your tones.
"Say something the way your daddy talks, "; Now talk the way your
mother talks; Then the director matches the child. The piano
isn't too good you know. "Is this pitch high or low?" Many
questions can be asked relative to pitches. We are wrong about
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talking about high low and up and down. As soon as you say "high",
it means it takes more pressure. Use "fast" tones and "slow"tones.
"Johnny"(Primaries). Call the roll musically. See if "Johnny"
can match your tones. Wooden xylophones. Put the monotone in front.
Train the choir as a whole to help the "monotone". Not to be able
to do something that everyone else in the choir does is bad. The
boys have a tendency to sing low more than high. "See how far I
can sing"--Pelly(Incident which occurred after Pelly sang in
a big number) The Range of Music for Children. Children's voices
change often. There is more danger in having the children sing
too low than too high. Range "E" to "G"; sometimes "A".
The tonal advantage you get from having your Junior Choir sing a
two-part song is nil. ri2 e accompaniment is very important. In
learning to sing in parts start in this way. Above the melody is
easy. People who aren't trained cannot sing the lower melody.iMax
and Beatrice-California; hjos Pub. Co, Chicago). Repeated figure.
Exercises: They can have their place but not merely as exercises.
Exercises should be focused upon one central point. I like
exercises that are conceived to correct a fault in the song the
children are singing. Make a game.
Footsteps: Step right in the guide's footsteps. Now to the next
peak. Stop at the top of the mountain and take a few pictures.
Breathing: You don't want to hear breathing. See how far we can
sing on one breath. "America". "Sweet Land of Liberty", not
"lib(breadth) erty." "Don't suck me in." "See if you can sing without
making a big noise.
The use of the vowels.'(Book)-"The Successful Children's Choir"The Basic Sound System. A wrong is not corrected with another
wrong. Your criterion for a musical tone is the speech tone. Once
the children hear the difference they can do them. How: When
youre learning new songs, go around the room and find out each
hilci sings. Give individual attention. Know each voice in your
choir. The most important vocal influence are those the children
hear. Be very cautious of your own voice. See that you finish all
your sounds. Some have more resonance than others. I have had
people who had voices that would ruin any choir. (Record voices);
I do not believe you can get anywhere at all unless you know
what you want to hear. We must have 2 sets of ears. (1) What we
hear outside(2) what we hear inside. What are the qualities that
you can expect of your children: (1) They will have vitality.
Children want something which takes energy to do. Vitality is a
part of childhood. We have to give them some guidance. (2) Rhythm.
I think we are sometimes a greater handicap. Rhythm is not
accent. it is physica. "tire gather together to ask the Lord's blessing"
Use all kinds of illustrations. Some music goes along like a deer.
Other like an elephant. "Brother James" air"--Paraphase of the
23rd Psalm. Diction: All sounds should be in the right place. Example:
"Mairzy Doats"--misplaces sounds. "An.
ciy Gump" song, "Andy walks
with me, Andy talks with me." "Tongues" "0 Thou of God"---illustration;
The liz a rd and ant
Illustration:
Frogs in that lake "Thou" (splash) Make intervals clean
Accuracy: This can be expected in your children.
Taking musical liberties: Flexibility: "The Lord's prayer",
Arr. iiallotte Definite rigid limits. You don't artificially do
music.
Know the music You TeaCh (iuusical Integrity)
An imitation is never the realLthing. Don't imitate anybody.
(1)Be very sure that your children know the music. Have the
children sing from memory"
(2)You can't start too early. See that children are not afraid
to memorize.
(3)Discipline: " I must be able:to sing this without any help"
A children's choir can be a very capable group. Junior High Choir
should have music in 3 parts. 'Build a consecutive music program.
Looking forward through the years.
Avoid collections all the time; some are good; some are not good.
"Iiss Crow-der-Instructor of Church 'Music Education, DWBTS
Graded Choir Program
Rhythms: "When the little child wants to sing."
"Hymns for Primary Worship"
"Rhythmic Games and Dances"
"Rime, Rhythm and Song-For the Child of Today"-Hall
'McCreary, Chicago
Ideals Publishing Co. -publications are good. many good ideas you
can use.
J.S. Adams, aloron, arkansas Choir Director(Don,, ie Adams,
NortnIestern University, Chicago;
OEU)(oee shorthand
notes) -riot too important
Lrs. Brown, Vocal Instructor sWBTS:
Breath: No 304 "He Leadeth Le". We can break down this business
of singing into 3 parts.
(1) Breathing
(2) Phonation
(3)
Phonation is interfered with frequently by poor pronunciation and
enunciation.
Free Phonation: The challenge of church singing is very great. We
should help people in worship.
The agency of tone is the speech sound. There is a vowel sound to
every word. The same vowel sounds occur in many -words. We speak
out in public speaking. Neat, vital, flexible and alive. The
sounds of the vowels are produced by the action of the tongue.
Ah, uh (neutral vowel) , as in one, ion , (Good for relaxation)
1 2
3
1
2
3
(Octave A)
4
High note-no
Fast note-yes
Long E:"Ie tweet, he
U-Too, Etc.
g: hey ?lay, They Play, They Play."
Go Slow, Etc.
Lay-Lee-Lah-Lo-Loo (Perfect every vowel sound) Sing on your
speaking level. (Illustration: The singer in N.Y. "Singing Is
Hot Speaking"
"The Ideals of Church Music"--Dr. Blackwood
The problems in church music. The public worship in the large
church. The wise pastor felieves in church music. Organ. Pipe
Organ. The Hisic of the organ is wonderlu. It is man-made, however. Choral music with an instrument which is God-made, the
human voice. CongreVgational sirwing. 1.Iany of the chiefest
choirs of Heaven will be singing. The Pastor who is wise chooses
his hymns wisely. This Foes for his i ii.isic Director also. The
Doxology belongs with the offering. "All jeople that on Earth
Doth Dwell"; "Joyful, Joyful he adore Thee". From Beethoven's
5th symphony, 4th movement, etc.) "Spirit of God, descend upon
the earth": "Love ivine"; "Come Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove";
"Just as I Am"; "Oh Jesus I have Promised : "Lead on, 0 King
Eternal": god in me and out to the world.Christmas: 1. "u Come All Ye Faithful"
2. "0 Little Town of Bethlehem"
3. n,e Three rings of Orient Are"
The healing touch: set a motif. in some churches the selections
are too long. Some are too heavy. Responsive headings, Lite.
Never ask the people to sing a hymn they do riot know. The average
church has about 25 or 50 hymns they can sing.
Heard the Voice of Jesus Say"--Dykes
1. "Vve Three Kings
2. "Fairest Lord Jesus"
3. "Love Divine" (Dr. Blackwood's son'is favorites at age of 9)
Never make light of any hymns that people love.
Begin with People -Where They Are:
"Jesus Is Tenderly Calling"
"Oh Happy Day"
The Gospel Hymn is a Hymn of Invitation.
0 Little Town of Bethleham:
1. The luietness of the Place
2. The r.tietness of the Way
3. The Quietness of the Hearts
I. The Quietness of the Prayer
0 Come All Ye Faithful-The Christmas Hymn of Adoration
(Easter or Palm Suhday)-"There is a Crean Aill Far Away"
1. The Place of the Cross
2. The Puzzle (Mystery) Of The Cross
(You are called to tell the how of it, but to preach the fact
of it-the Cross)
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3.
The Purpose of the Cross
(Three Important books a Minister Should Have:l. Holy bible
2. Hymn Boot
3.Dictionary)
4- The Prince on His Cross-The sinless Saviour
5. The People of the Cross
The Pastor?
The minister wishes to work with a skilled trained worker in
muaic. People aren't going to be satisfied. with the music of their
foreparents.
There are two extremes in music of the church
(1)Sloveness
(2) Showmanship
Jesus should be always the center of the music program in any
church, large or small
God expects the best in music; in everything. My prayer for you is
as a Minister of Music that your Pastor and you will team together.
Demonstration Lecture On Library Maintenance -Miss Thompson
Music Repair: Japanese Mending tissue: Gambel-Hinged, black box
and 2"
for music. mystic Tape: Anthem HolderOvide-spine)
sizes; AlphRbetical arrangement will riot work always. 'se
tire number system for your music library files. This arrangement is flexible. Have A Card Catalogue.
Composer
Arranger, etc.
Separate files for Christmas, Easter,
Thanksgiving, etc.
Sacred.
Secular
(voices) (voices)
Put wheat paste on first, then glue.
"Clinic On Child Tone" A Demonstration Rehearsal
from the Fort Worth Public Schools)-Thursday
—jth Children
1-2-3- hold
1-hold-3-hold
Latin Lesson'fbloria in excelsis deouMusic on the blackboard
Teach forms
Teach Only One at a Time
"On This bay, Earth Shall Ring, With the Song Children Sing, to
the Lord. Christ Sur King, Etc. (See mimeograph sheet)
ED*E*0: EL-E-O: (Gloria)
(Call your pal down the street)
Ring the Bells on Your ng Tones
All Hail (All (Hay-L) )
Ail Hail, Ali Hail, All Hail To Christ Our King.
All 'Jail, All Hail, with Craterul Hearts vae Sing.
"ave a story and Song-Get on the Children's Level.
iderneograph sheets:
1. Palm Sunday
","All Hail, All
2. Christmas
1"On this Day, -tc.
3. Good Friday
3"Holy, Holy, iIdly-The bird....?
4. Easter
antiphonal Choir
(Notes After Demonstration)
Don't let a y mistake go uncorrected: Make renetition, but not
obvious. Use this type of thng.
On theory, conducting a churci music school, voice, hymn playing,
choir clinic, methods and materials for grnded choirs, music and
the scriptures, etc.
Train the Leadership in your Church: This course is designed
at Nashville, there
to help the minister of music. In the
are s organists, 5 pianists, and 5 choirs.
Pamphlets Ontainabie(or forthcoming):
1. Recommended iiusic Education Program for the Local Church
2.6uggeuted Organization for the Church Choir
3. The Church Choir
4. Recommended Eusic Education Program for the Local Church
5. Recommended Music Education Program for the association
6. The Associational Music Director
7. Expanding the Church Music Program
. The Choirster and. Pianist of the Sunday School and Training
Union
9. The Associational Hymn Sing
10. Music and Evangelism
11. Gospel Music in Revivals
12. Music for Primaries
13. The Cherub Choir
14. Organizinn the Junior (Carol) Choir
15. The Graded Choir Program
16. The Church Music Record System
17. Planning and Operating a School of Church -.usic
18. The Churth Music Training Course
19. Providing Adeduate Building Facilities for a Church Music
Education Program
20. Thirteen bong - Sermons
Organ ? Piano? Placement; recording and library pamphlets.
The Best Time To Change Something Is Unile You're Building.
Inspirational Project: Conference at Ridgecrest and Glorietta
June 8-14
Arranged so that while Music Cirectors are at Glorieta, the
Students will be at Ridgecrest, and vice versa. The Elijah.
and. Messiah will be performed, one at itidgecrest and one at
Glorieta.
Training, The Leadership: Training The Followship.
September is Church Music ,ionth-Pamphlet which is indespensable
to the Minister of . 1asic and his program.
State Directors: They hnve an overall pro ram of Church Elisio;
they conduct Church Music Schools; State Leadership Conferences;
There are 12C associations in Texas.
State, District and Associational Festivals.
Coopernti5.1 with the other state Programs.
JuL,mer
Annual Carol sings.
The Facts About Public Prayer-Dr. hlackwood
Ilorning Worship:
Sooner or later in your ministry you are likely to become
discouraged about public prayer. The visitors from Europe
say that the weakest part of IL:lerican liturgy is the prayer
life. From the point of view of many, it is a form of service.
The Purpose of Prayer: Th,kes the place of sacrifices which were
to show the feeling Of the people.
Religion is a feeling of absolute dependence upon God. The man
who leads in public prayer is supposae to express the following
acts: (Prayer are Acts of TJorsib)
jA.-dorF, tion of God
C-Confession to God
Supplication for: 1. others
T-Theuiksoiving to God.
2. rulers
3-Supplication to God
3. missions
S-Service for God
In view of all tie facts,
Listening: Hymn of Praise
Lemory hymn
Hymn of Entreaty
Hymn for boys and Girls
Bulletin: Your Bulletin should be edited with care:
Doxology: Call to pray(scripture to be read)
Stand for every song
bow down for every prayer
Invocation: Presbyterians use a collect: "0 Lord unto whom all
hearts are opened, etc...."
Lead the people to be conscious of God's presence.
Don't use a "Collect" every time.
"D lord oar God; Thou only are Holy, Thou only are Lighty; ...etc."
Psalm 51: -Confession of sin-pasted in Hymn Book
Pause in Your Prayer
In the name of Jesus Christ that every person has been forgiven.
Scripture: ".... though they be read like crimson." :Make the
confession of sin stand out. Length is about 11/2 minutes
DEG: You haven't time to tell God about the morning more than
6 times. Address the Deity at the very beginning stages of prayer.
Prayer of Invocation and Confession:
Pastoral Prayer; Prayer of
The same voice should not be prominent in tow consecutive Carts
of the regular hour of worship.
The minister speaks to the people; the people speaks to God ;
You're likely to pray too long.
1. Thanksgiving
2. Petitions
3. Intercession
Begin with the people liThere they are. sever a day goes by but
tout you should pray for little children, even middle-ages persons.
Petitions(Sick and sorrowing)
John atson:
The Lord would bless everyone who is lost. bray for people in
the hospitals.
Silence
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Remain Silent 30 seconds. Pray silent prayer.
Don't pray all arodnd the world.
There ere 3 elements of a pastoral prayer; Model for any
prayer is The Lord's Prayer.
Offering: The nature of the Offering.
Dedication is giving ourselves to God.
Consecration is:
A good sermon leads materially to singing and prayer.
Benediction: Denedction isn't prayer.
prayer is the angels
of God ascending. Benediction is the
e.
angels of God descending.
"Iqay" is prayer.
It is very difficult for an ordinary man to improve upon the
work of the Holy Spirit.
You don't pronounce a benediction when you have prayed.
1. Life
2. Peace
3. Comfort
'T
the God of Peace that brought again from the dead...etc"
Phil.4:
" ...the peace of God that passes all understanding, etc."
You cannot Lmprove on those words.
The Blessing of God coming down to crown the mercy seat.
Silence
The best sort of preparation is indirect
" ...bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, etc."
Saturate yourselves with John Bunyan:
The beauty of the Lord God.
(Short Prayer) -II Samuel 24: 24
Dr. Loren: 'villiams-7The Promotional and Education Emphasis of
The Southwide Letsic Program
Pamphlets: Don t try to out anything into use exactly as it is
set out in these oampnlets. The material is adaptable; also
in the deurch Musician. The Southwide Music Program is purely
suggestive.
New pamphlets are forthcoming on: 1. Choir f,lothers 2. Choir
Sponsors
Don't Try to Organize All Six Choirs the First Month. Build your
choirs on a solid foundation. Mushroom growth is not substantial.
hell organized. and well planned is the rule of the day for
any music program. You've got to start with the people where they
ere. The public school music program is very good and you are
fortunate if you have a. good public school music teacher.
Choirs:
Celestial(4 and 5)-beginners
Cherub(6, 7, and 8)-Primaries
Carol(9, 10,11,(e12)-Juniors
Concord(13-16)
-intermediates
dnape1(17thru 24) -Young People
Church(25 and Up) -Adults, or Y.P. and Adults
Your dhapei and. L;hurch choirs may possibly hold toeether
tnrougn the scumier months without a vac4t1 on for them, depending
on the local situation.
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In tleptember: Church i usic month(annually) -Lay your plans
for the whole year, and carry them out with consistent and
constant effort. 'b oric 0 and 71 montns Ln advance;
Get Bids on the Children s Time:
Have a Kickoff Supper for Your uraded Choirs (Just as the
Chamber of Commerce and Rotar Glob has)
Your program should be planued. (Christmas, Laster,
Thanksgiving)
Joint concert: Use variety ; " Hymn of the Month"; Give the
new hyman variety:
Church musician: Hymn stories on Hymn of the —onth
Grown Hiia with Liany Crowns"
Sept. 1953 Hymn is
Use hyrAn arran gements and variations. Organ and piano.
Record System:
Publications: Search publications for music to be used with
children's choirs.
The Hymn of the heath should he Taught to the Graded Choirs:
"HyMns for i'rimary - orship"
hake a Definite Unit of':fork, Such :Es;
issionary-"The many, many chil:'ren"- Hymn Tirne"From Greenland's
Icy mountains" iqtmeoraphed material(Write us the :r eaction
You reel concerning this liaterial)
There are 2 ,000 southern La'ALst Churches in 23 states that
we are tryLnr to serve.
The.uric Jepartment Should Serve Every Denartment
Oden Forum: Church Jrchestras-Cited —r, morFan of ilLssissippi
(emphasis on orchestra work)
):15-):30 in Church sInday morning':
Tulsa for 15 'dilutes.
( mr. ;„illiams" Church).
iLpmember
IC isn't the size of= Hioir that Counts, It's
the service.
Library: File by number, not alphabetically.
The Church musician or any magazine for that matter is printed
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have copies for:
1. l'ianists(lJepartmentai and General)
2. Organist
3.Pastor
L.
ijepartment Superintendents
5. director of Finance(Treas)
6. Chairman of Lord of Derlcons
7. Church i-u sic Committee members
Church
Committee:
Should include. PaE7tor, i.inister of
Representatives
free some of the orTanizatLons, i.e.,
T.U., Board of
Deacons, etc.
Have a committee which represents the entire Church; not merely
P committee to.... ch.xch policies. The —uric Committee can help
yon to make important decistons, e.g., 1:usic bud s et
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J.D. Riddle,
(conference
Dr. 'Angel s
- hurch Chair
Church music Secretary of Texas Baptist tonvention
)
.-Lth him btiefly
choir book for helpful in ormation concerning the
rehearsals
}ears. jacobs-Correlating Graded Choirs
Education Program
, the Religious
;e defLnite )reparation. Sing your songs over and over again
to c t lhe feel of theirl. Don't sing too fast. -uike all the bells
in the steeple ringinE. Permit time for the accompanLient.
Tap out rhythm on chair. Get rhythmic patterns established.
:
as
in Ex-cel-sis,..die-o
Note: Have children brinF a 'ccl o a -hip. nail which has the
tone"C". Glass objects are too dangerous. Get the children
to pronounce the Latin correctly.
Classical: (Book to :-et) "Correct proauniation of Latin"
" j sine to our ssvi -)ur " .with " The 'Bird of Christ"..."Roly,
Holy, nply," straiEht line melody with correct hreathing and
pronunciation. make the "0" t ery round.
There are always such fascinating discoveries in working with
children s choirs.
Legends: 'The reasons for the UhrLstian legends are not necessarily
factJ.al. They are s,l-bols of occasions. -erends grow out of the
thini-dni; of the people.
oee: "..,,round the year with the Legends"
1. L,egends
B. h._m_Ly 2Jays
Legends about how the robin got his red breast.
The greatest Point of Contact with the children is Nature.
" How the robin got his Red. Lreast." The. bird tried to pick the
thorns out o the .3aviouf's brow. This song is in the minor.
inc bird was sorry for Jesus as the mob treated him so cruelly.,
and even laughed at him and spat in his face.
Estalish with the do-ti-do. Intervals are important. Teach them.
They re easy to learn.
Thihk.
Prepare
Approach('Manner in which you will ap)roach each. thing to be taught)
Story
Pictures
A.iow your i sic: stud the structure of a song. What can a song
teach in musicianship? Give the children pictures and. lots
of them. use them orofuselv but with careful planning and
discretion.
Prepare the roori
Have tning on the blackboard
Give stars
Have notebooks for the children to keep t iings in
Give the children something to 0
Picturese to collect from old m g,:a.zines
Make musical instruments.
Give Pianist outline of rehearsal-The "housekeeroin " of your rehearsal.
Have some definite signal for the beginning of the rehearsal. ire
ex a ct . Chimes will do.
Prayer to Strt
Pass the Leadership Around
Lj,:e plans for your rehearsal
Proportion your time
List numbers in the order of,rehearsing
If a thing doesn't work, don t ,- p.tsh it. Follow your outline.
at the close of hehearsal, jot down
Use filing cards,
notations and put the card sway in your files for next week's
rehearsal
Get new card for next week ,s rehearsal
Variety has already been. stressed. use it
Length of Rehearsal: Juniors -about 1 hour
"hen you enter a dhurch, it should sugest the presence of God".
Dr. Blackwood
Don't try to learn a new song in one rehearsal. use rhythm sticks
only so the children can only hear the rhythm. Step-Step(Not
the piano)
rite" Snake iieodies" on the board for the children to sing:
" The scale is such a simple thing-- it goes right up and back
atain." This song will help to teach the scale(a scale is a tonal
ladder--h ladder of tones)
Jon't use the music all the
Embarrasing incidents:
Tone: Teach the children to recognize good tones and. bad ones.
,j,onner, Bah-ner) (Billy hoot Owl), ("Eoon") -not
(
the moon, nor two moons, but the headlights of a car.
Get: "ermons in nature"-Ex. : Hoo-hoo club.
Hound tones:
Use of fotebooks: Limeograph sheets for pupils
Stars: Use them in giving credit to the children.
have Them Repeat Lords on Saturday BeYore suhday. Have Jeftnite
Relirements made of the uhjldren.
Performances: Plan them: For instance: "Ijoyhood of some famous
musicians" Plaestrina:
re know three kinds of "'h-In.""
1. Polyphonic
2. monophonic
3. lio-kilophonic
There must be reason to everything and a point of contact.
The Twenty-Third 2salm:
"The ,Ung of Love Ly 6hepher Is"Cuizyes: see Readers Digest-192(Article on 23re Psalm)
Sheep will not drink from running water; Sheep drink deeply.
The shepherds uses a crook in his staff to retrieve a sheep which
has fallen down into a narrow and deep divide. The shepherd
knows how to throw his rod and staff. The Crook is held in front
of each sheep as it enters the sheepfold, and the shepherd
checks to see if there are any acratches on him.
The beatitudes:
Jesus taught not so much by preaching, but by his teaching
and action.
dramatize: How many sotries Jesus told; Parables: Choose them
and dramatize them. With musical background.
History of Church Lusic:
book for older boys and girls. "Choir Upon the E,'rth"
Hnother Project: there tiesus Lived.
In Carmel, California, a garden was built aroung one
particular church, and it contains all of the plants named in
that part of Palestine where Jesus lived, at the entrance is
a sign: "This is the Garden of Prayer", Shrines bear words
"ConsecralYon", "Confession" PlacCe
Another Project: All God's dhildren*
etc)
Film: "Uindows to the -31<y."(About a Navajo child who Fo
One riFhtly chosen nicture is worth more than a year of talking.
What great men were tra'_ned in boy's choirs
j- wish you a 1-‘eFt deal
cli1Crch,s cNoirs.
of ple- sure as you go oat to work w i th
hechanics of Creative Choral Conducting-Pr.
y
Frai,zo the TThrie of thle Lord"- htensity in soft -Dassaes is
L:ioortant.
Pay httetion. to
bynamlc Levels. illtstration: Tian with a
car and. a child. bounces a. ball Clich Foes 1.nto the road; the
must slow down. Fianisimo cb
yve vitality. Sincerity
is she sresentation (pi. special music is of utmost importance.
Loa t let a soft, one lose intensity. Consider the ',ore content;
J do not believe that it is possible to arrive at, your objective
by ailluin yourself to becoL,e a huL,an Lietronome. Keep your
audience or eh oir at attention. inc you do not have some particular
expreive way, there is a. likelihood. in not ringing the bell.
Learn to talk with your hands to exsress whay you. mean.
beating has no eLiotiohal vaj_ue whatsoever. The hand and the
ration of the body shodj_d express the sal fie
ge. ILipath:/ :
LxalLpie: interpretive dancing is the -._deal for what a Food
Choir iiirector desires as far as. expression andgrace in music
are concerned. Try to express an idealExample: a native
Hawaiian girl expressing certain words by expressiveness of the
hands and. body7.
is year ideal of yourself as a conductor?
DraLlatic Content
PahtouLie
The uroprieta of theTh,- is
portant. All PhrasesShould tart
On Time.
"Take the spoken line as you speak it."
The use of tnilexion. i,tiorda sho..1T stand up in their purity.
Beauty, hot distortion, if: desired.
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Brown-The Tnterrelation of the ey ical Processes of Voice
Production
the east were "punk". A church of
Illustrat ion: 2 choirs
about 500 members. They began to sense the need ci voice training
in the city. -A- trained them and game orivate voice lessons.
The results were not only favorable to the church, but to the
choir members themselves.
Illustration: "r. Brown called to another church which had about
900 members. "iddle aged croup of choir members. he gave every
person in that group voice lessons, and they were delighted
to have the lessons. They had to take whether they wanted to or
not, but they didn't seem to mind. e taught them voice lessons
for 9 years. The choir improved and competed against very
fine choirs in the city. ,eople were amazed over the results.
If you can capture your choir with what they4re interested in,
astoending. i think that in some churches
the results
the music is unworth.
Poor tone quality as over against vitalized tone quality.
eith vitality.
"Beneath the Bross of Jesus'!. We must have 0.ee
must also have clear, understandable diction. Tf an anthem
cannot be understood it should be printed in the ehurch Bulletin.
Can a volenterr chorus choir be organized and function so as to
become well &.o ended n a system of good vice trainine
Lecture: Posture and Breathing are not the chef cornerstones
of good vocal technique, but they are very important. The breath
'should be supported by the abdominal rustles at all times in
he process of voice productlon.
(1)L'ingieg is mental, not Physical which is a very wonderful
aspect.
(2)oineing is Emotional
(3) e cahnot deny that singing is physical to a certain
deree. ie should esteblish definite physical conduct of
the mental
Think!
Usually a fine singer has a good mental capacity. We do need to
use the grey-matter that the Lord has given us.
Is there such a thing as a fine natural voice?
A great singer is born and never Hade. The great voices are gifts
of LOU.
The very average person can be skilled to the point where he
is above par.
Eastern Baptist Theological Leminary, Philadelphia
"early everyone speaks about diction and tonation. These are
very necessary component parts of the vocal technique:
There are 3 particular areas.
Processes: The cooperation ci certain muscular tissues.
(1) The breatning process
(2)The '2onati_on "phonation"
(3)The 2ronouncing 'rocess.
12345.
1.- ticulation is the moldingshaping) of a sound which is to be made.
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(2) Pronouncing and breathing. You breathe in order to live.
You have to first breath in a very unnatural way, when you are
first learning the technical processes of proper vocal technique.
-at is the uurpose for motivation in a singer s breathing?
Avoid Upper Chest Breathing.
When You Let go of the abdominal walls, there is no support.
Learn to take a small breath down in the lower basement, as it were
A tone has no quality apart from compression
The compression gives resonance and intensity of tone
Lo yverytning with a mintmum of effort.
Don t push, pull, shove.
Put'YoJr faLth in the work,
The fallacy of voice methods.
use all the ,reath you need to produce the pitch and volume that
your brain demands. Don't budget your breath. Breath works against
tension when you"budget h your ureath. You really should not con sider breatning b itself in singing. the Exhalation is important.
It is terrifically iuiportant.
Chapel -"ectareDr. Blackwood, professor of biblical homilectics.,
Temple university, 1 niladelphia, jJa. ( e
' ider a otrong man Discovers God
Hymn no. 189-Thearcr my uod to Theet'
Prayer: L)r. -oodson Armes of Polytechnic Baptist Church, Port Worth
=remarks: 1Jr. -ead
Lecture: °r. iindrew W. Llackwood
believe that under God the future of the Q.B.C. depends upon
seminaries such as this one. eadi_Ig in public worship is the
most glorious privilege. ' have formed these principles upon the
Bible. 4M) weeks ago a friend of our family was preparing to
listen to Presiden nisenhower with us in our home over the radio.
then the President began to pray, the woman began to weep. 'he
cleaning woman started to pick up her broom and started to work.
Bhe said, "Thank uod, 1 feel safe once more."
Let Us Turn To the Word of God: Genesis 28: 10-Jacob s Dream.
Bethel(called Luz). Jacob's promise: "... If God will be
me and will keep -e in the way that I shall Lp,then will the Lord
be
oU.
Verse 10:
-f you led in the :
nblic worship
that man Jacob comes in,
will he responU as he .):1-t to respond?
The way that le ,,ortals ca r t o to Lod. That's what public worship
is for. Public worsedp is: The angels of God ascenUing and Descending
ith the prayers of God s chilbren ascending and the angels
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descending. That is what public worship is for. To bring
us to God and God to us. (Illustration: The dear saint of God
who led us virtually onto the liontain to ). The moet marvelous
eperience)
x
"Behold the Lord"-pis you led in the service of public worship,
e.id dabob see those steps leadine, to God? Did he Thalk" along
them, Was he conscious of the blessing of God coming down? " I
am the Lord", ...The God of your grandfather; the God of your
father aA. -` want to become Your Father. -The mort wonderful
hour in the unredeeed. soulof a man. When - as your age, I
went oat into the world to Preach. ;t didn't occur to me that
the purpose of public worship as for the purpose of the
record tells
discovery of God. The other part of the sacred
a
abaat a. stron man's response. You haven t done anyting
h
unless
70U get response.
"surely God. is in this place". The Lord God is here: Reverence:
if a :Lian underst-nds his business, he always has confession of
sins in the early pert of the service. Will a Worshiper
say, "how dreadful is this place?" or barely, this is none other
Cut the no:Ise of God." The spirit of God joeaki14: to The sinner.
he doesn't even say " "God is my God".
tend the ;'Life of Creorbe ".Truett', the m.ost night preacher. study
what he say about money. od,wants"not oniy youfs, but he wants
you, not pro,Iiising God this and that in the future. be see
Jacob, 2b years later- putting off, but now he has come to the
place -v.here he desires to go back to -_;ether - here he first
found Goa. 4U years of service lost. Genesis 32; the bun of
RiLhteosuess arose in ills ieart. liuor.
Fueiic Worship is for tue people to accept Christ. Gut and out
for the ,-ingdom of God. i personally do not believe that
preaching is the most important phase of public worship.
The prayers to God ascending.
nod reveals hil:iself is. .3 ways; two of which are these; (1) through
the written word, and (2) by the spoken word of Loa. "id re am I,
Just hs
A ."
Head This part of Genesis 28:Ii Jam. 24;24" ..."
Praise and Prayer take the place of the sacrifice of the Old
testament. -o you soend enough tie
posing the hymns carefully
11:1 taking enough time for prayer. 1'u ho am 1- to read this Bible?
it's holy'
Do not offer stranFe fire to the Lord. (Practice
what you testify about in your song...)
It is LI fearful th.n for
:ii lister to offer strange fire to
the God froll Whom till Llessings Flow"
Dr. i31ackwood-The i'ieahing of P_b
rship-
Br. Wfay has done everythilv humanly possible to make me feel
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at home. After one of my messages once upon a time, a little girl
came up to n.e, and. asked full of childlike sincerity, "is the
devil aAflan like you?2
Mimeographed Dheet:
Pubnic horship is God's revelation of himself in grace and our
response to him in faith. "eaves is home, and home should be
heaven. The church oAght to be a worthy place in which to worship
'od. in soLie places it is not easy to worship God. Some places
are little more than "cheep Barns" the way some of them are
carelessly attended to. Bits of paper on the floor, dirty and the
like. The interior of the church should be as clean as the linen
on the table from which your mother entertains guests. The 'bible
is the central part of the worship. The purpose of the central
pulpit is not to glorify the minister. if you ever go into a
church with a divided chancel, you will observe that the scripture
is read from one pulpit and the seriLonpreanhed from the other.
The pulpit shoaid be in the center. " 1 was glad when they said
unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord."
So live that if everyone felt like you do and does whay you do,
the world would be a better place in which to live.
The public reading of the scriptures. 'uhat is the purpose of
the public reading of the scriptures "To...make known the will
o f God:W.No one can call attention to Christ and himself at
the same time.
The Berson: The interpretation of one important aspect in this
world. The purpose is to make God know ( Paul say, "That I may
know him, and the power of his ressurection"i.
Carl Berths:
Oscar Culman(both writers)
noice of hymns: The Christian Bible set to iiusic( The Psalms
of David and other Psalmists)
Responsive Reading: This gives the boys and girls and opportunity
to do sonething they cam do.
Don't say "'-')11ection". That is Tike saying you are goint to
gather up the fragments that remain.
The leaders in worship: AJon't drive--Lead.
( Another reference to George B. Truett)
One man saia, "The peonle always do what '.u.T. wants them to do.
The People Themselves must Give esponsei The Revelation and Respon
t the same.ti,de.
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The Hebrews have a church year, and there's something very interesting about that L'hurch Year. There are Feast Days: Happy Days.
Days of Getting Hight VA_gh God.
sacrifices- 6 or 7 or more feast days. A week of getting acquainted
with God. Plan the Work of the church so that the spiritual
and social needs will be met. Adaptability This church exists
to reveal the character of God. A true minister of the gospel
is interested in putting out of his community everything that
will hinder the work of the Lord. "buperannuated pussy cats" an expression used referring to pastors who " sugar-coat" the
Gospel.
What Look do you think is the iost valuable for the minister
Ldrhip hour
outside of the bible -ins. The Hymnbook. The
should center in Jesus Christ. "e is the one supreme being
to make known.
" It is very difficult to explain to anybody else something
that you no not know yourself."
flake Definite Plans: nave some sort of a Christian Year.
The importance of Public 'vvorship.
Translate into terms of the day the Word of God. Don't soar
above the people.
use any hymn that is worth singing as 1c1
of the Holy bpirit.
"How Firm a xoundation"
The Bible bchool is a Part of the church.
The ordinary means of worship: natural
A man should know how to read God s word
idlnodncements should be kept to a'minimum.
" Sirs, We Would bee Jesus"-The visdom of planning.
The pPete.ep should not cap_ attehtion to itself. Paul used
the term"earthen vessel", -vessel because it was comely and of
no particular eye-catching appeal.
Dr. mcNeely-Piusic In Evangelism ( Demonstration up to sencion)
Choir Theur: "Love is the Theme"
Congregttion Theme: "Yes, I'll Sing the Wondrous story"
Comfort bong: "Sometime"-bung by Gene Bartlett of Trinity baptist
Church, Oklahoma City
Hymn of Praise: "Break Thou the Bread of Life"
Testimony Time: "ake_e a Channel of Blessing" sang afterwards
Bible Heading Time: " 2 hy \ Word have I I4iad In my Heart"
Prayer rime: "W hat a Friend"
Prayer: ar. Riddle
Dr. -lackwood-Chapel-'then Worship -cads to Revival
scripture; I K4 ngs ( Concerning heal and the altar, and the arm
of the Lord extended)
We need a revival: k, e need almight God!.ihe Greatest Revivals
have come through public worship. The choice now is vetween
the one God, the God of Jesus Christ, and no God at all.
Today- the doors in China and North i,orea are closed. The choice
today is not between a true reliLion..and false. The challenge of
the present day is this: "Choose ye this day whom ye will serve."
"How song halt ye between two opinions?" some out and out for pod;
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others oat and out agEinst God. Theera : t majority of the people
often don't care. Sone preachers will " sprinkle rose water over
you." It was the ore: ching of hod ,s servant that brought the fire.
Elijah built the altar the same way you build a church. Some laid
the stones, others poured the mortar, and of course there was
always someone around to pour on the cold water. We may have the
wood, water, and all that, but one thing is still lacking;
the power of God. The fire of Cod.
illustration: :Cram a 1950 ,jiography; p. 307
( relative to Presides Roosevelt's son dating soneones
daughter: a letter) "Dear FUR: Please tell Frainklin, Jr. that
the net, time he takes Barbara to a nightclub, all will be over
between then. Btc. "
The new generation goes to the night clubs instead of to church.
We have cone to a critical hour. We need preparation. We need to
build up the altars of our hearts. The houses of prayer. he need
to pray for the Holy 6pirit. he need to pray for fire. Often
that means the Hal y i3nirit. The fire consumes the dross and
purifies. The victory cane because of prayer. Prayer for the
coming of the Holy Spirit.
(Illustration: A man said after visiting Br. hpurebn' in tabernacle in Great Britain; " i found that the secret of -purgeont
preaching as not in his preaching at all, but in his prayer life."
This na.n came back to Philadelphia(Whitfield), tightened the stakes
about his own prayer life, and sure enough God sent a revival which
literally shook the city and thence a continent. The Great Revival
of Philadelphia)
Dr. Blackw)od-Chapel-When a Yodn
an Comes To Church
"Whom shall 1 seed end who will go for us?"(Bcripture:) The
prophet 'sdiah soeaking.
Fe ng “ minditer of the as el is the noblest calling on earth.
(Had to tand p for This -see the autobiography of Dr. GrenfellLabreuor)
Prayer and .oenediction: Unto li that lo\ed is and washed us with
His-own blood, to him be the glory now and forevermore.
hr. hlackwood-uhapel-When a Pastor -oves the Hymn uook
i-iatt: 17: (The transfILJration: )
Worship me ns"Being in the presence of Christ." With Christ on the
no_intaih Tel); "1ie6 you lead people in public worship your place
is to lead people above the fog and misery of the earth. Into a
place of beauty. The transfiguration. Lioses and Elijah did homage
to Christ. Out fron the bondage of sin and shame and death. The
wonuer of God s promises. 'Jesus set iris face i_ide a flint to go
up to Jerusalem to suffer there for us.
God is sight
God is Love
The J-ord led these young men up into the mountain away from the
noise and storn of tire busy city. hut let us go down in the valley.
There surely is someone r ho needs us. There are the (1) dreamers
(Z,) drones Let us go with Christ down in the valley. But why
talk abut
dlijah hals power. Greater than any atomic
energy that can ever be released. the power of the Holy Spirit
has been waiting a long time.
CHOR I SIER GUILD
Christian Character through Children's Choirs
September, 1951
Vol. 3, No. I
Ruth Krehbiel Jacobs
204 N. Second Street
Memphis 3, Tennessee
GREETINGS
With this issue, the Choristers' Guild starts its
third year. It finished its first year with about
150 subscribers, and four Letters.
Last year there were eight Letters and 400 subscribers.
The Choristers' pin, designed as a choir award for
Guild affiliates was adopted by twenty five churches,
and is under consideration by nineteen others. The first Children's Choir Summer
School was held at Green Lake, Wisconsin, with a comprehensive program and faculty.
This year, the increase in members depends on you. Our goal of one thousand members
is easily attainable if each of you will do one or all of three things:
See that at least one friend becomes a member.
Send us the names and addresses of other children's choir directors in
your community.
Start an informal local association of children's choir directors.
Thus far, the Guild income has not met expenses. The deficit each year has been met
by Mrs. Jacobs. If the Guild is to realize its full potential, it must appeal to
the faith and generosity of a large number of people. It is not fantastic to vision
a CHILDREN'S CHOIR CENTER, with a chapel, and a library, a printing press and a
dormitory; a place to house all available information on children's choirs, a lending library, a source of information and guidance and inspiration, a place where
directors can come at any time for fellowship and training. This dream will materialize some day, but it will take money - lots of it. Each of us, in our own way can
help with personal gifts and festival offerings. Some few of you may be the means of
interesting large donors.
The more you do for the Guild, the more it can do for you. The directed efforts of
a national association can accomplish things that are impossible for an individual,
such as, for instance, a campaign to educate the clergy to the unique values of the
children's choir. Such a campaign would in turn:
Increase the interest of your church people in the choir.
Provide better salaries and more adequate funds for your work.
Encourage the church to finance your summer study.
TO KEEP IN MIND
Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching
them to behave as they do not behave. It is not teaching the youth the shapes of
letters and the tricks of numbers, and then leaving them to turn their arithmetic
to roguery, and their literature to lust. It means, on the contrary, training them
into the perfect exercise and kingly continence of their bodies and souls. It is a
painful, continual and difficult work to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning,
by precept, and by praise, but above all - by example.
JOHN RUSKIN
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A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best
of one's ability, everything which he attempts to do. There is a sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work - a work which is rounded, full, exact,
complete in all its parts - which the superficial man, who leaves his work in a
slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns work into art. The smallest thing, well-done, becomes
artistic.
WILLIAM MATHEWS
1950 - SPECIAL GIFTS - 1951
PERSONAL
$ 5.00 Mrs. B. M. Arington, Glade Springs, Virginia
$10.00 Mrs. R. D. Anschicks, Martinsville, Virginia
$25.00 Mrs. Sherman Crawford, Lawton, Oklahoma
$10.00 Julie Ann Hanson, Minneapolis, Minnesota
$ 4.00 Mrs. Harlan Kirk, Appleton, Wisconsin
$18.00 Mrs. J. A. Lewis, Webster Groves, Missouri
$ 5.00 Eva Staples, High Point, North Carolina
$15.00 Jane Thomas, Lynchburg, Virginia
OFFERINGS
$25.00 Mrs. R. D. Anschicks, Martinsville, Virginia. Music Service
$22.00 Mrs. Graham Browne, Crewe, Virginia. Music Service
$25.00 Mrs. H. A. Fohrholtz, Pittsfield, Mass. Choir Recognition Service
$80.00 Mrs. Madeline Ingram, Lynchburg, Virginia. Lynchburg Festival
$33.20 Eva Staples, High Point, North Carolina. Festival
GREEN LAKE
THE GREEN LAKE SUMMER SCHOOL was a greater success than we had dared hope. A spirit
of comradeship was evident from the first moment. Outstanding as was the faculty,
each teacher attended all the classes with note book and pen. Classes and Demonstrations ran from 8:30 to 3:15, and several evenings were given over to informal jam
sessions. The presence of other seminars on the grounds afforded an opportunity to
experiment with choric speech, and religious dance. The lake offered boating and
swimming. A vital common interest provoked endless discussions. Party night revealed
unique and unsuspected talents. Professional church musicians and amateur directors,
rural areas and city churches, the north, east, south and west were represented in a
group that was exceptional for its eagerness and comradery. All agreed to do all in
their power to assure a capacity school in 1952.
THOSE PRESENT
Mr. and Mrs. Haskell Boyter, Atlanta, Ga.
Jean Maxwell, Meridian, Miss.
Jean E. Browne, Richmond, Va.
Phyllis Martin, Sturgis, Mich.
Mr. and Mrs. James Copeland, Richmond, Va. Mrs. Walter Martens, Charleston, W. Va.
Mrs. M. J. Neuenschwander, Berne, Ind.
Mrs. Alfred Cotton, Milwaukee, Wis.
Anna Cartlidge, Charleston, W. Va.
Mrs. Lois Oliver, Austin, Texas
Mrs. John Clough, Syracuse, New York, N.Y. Mrs. R. B. Ramsdell, Middletown, Ohio
Margaret Crain, Philadelphia, Pa.
Eva Staples, High Point, North Carolina
Ernestine Fox, San Francisco, Cal.
Mrs. Mary Snodgrass, Towanda, Kansas
Mrs. Grace Floering, La Porte, Ind.
Mrs. Richard M. Smith, St. Cloud, Minn.
Dorothy Guy, Atlanta, Ga.
Howard Stampfli, Wheeling, West Virginia
Richard Helms, Kansas City, Mo.
Jane Thomas, Lynchburg, Virginia
Mrs. Madeline Ingram, Lynchburg, Va.
Harriet Watkins, Terre Haute, Ind.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Jacobs, Memphis, Tenn.
Mrs. George Wood, Milwaukee, Wis.
Mrs. L. R. Keck, Des Moines, Iowa
Mrs. R. Rhein, Ripon, Wis.
Mrs. Harlan Kirk, Appleton, Wis.
Alvin Wooster, North Adams, Mass.
Margaret Kendrick, Atlanta, Ga.
Mrs. George Westby, Des Moines, Iowa
Mrs. J. A. Lewis, Webster Groves, Mo.
Janet van de Erve, Atlanta, Georgia
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PROJECTS
Already, as a result of Green Lake, several ambitious projects are underway.
Howard Stampfli, of Wheeling, W. Va., is planning a training school for new directors
in his vicinity.
The directors of Lynchburg, Va., who have had an annual children's choir festival for
thirteen years, intend to organize a local chapter of the Choristers' Guild.
Mrs. L. R. Keck of Des Moines, Iowa, in her capacity of state music chairman for the
Federation of Music Clubs, expects to hold Federation sponsored festivals throughout
the whole state.
RESERVE lilt DATE
The enthusiasm of the members of this year's summer school gives us courage to venture
still further in 1952 - with TWO SUMMER SCHOOLS.
Green Lake will again be one of them, from August 11 to 21st. Mrs. Rhein is already
planning to bring a group of thirty children to act as the demonstration choir.
Since a large percentage of this year's members came from the south, it seems wise
that the second school be somewhere in the south, possibly in the Smokies, or Blue
Ridge Mountains.
Church musicians could plan no more stimulating vacation than to attend one of these
schools. Increasingly, churches will underwrite the cost of their directors. This
year, Alvin Wooster's church paid all his expenses, from Massachusetts to Wisconsin.
Confer with your minister now. Explain how much the inspiration and training of such
a school can mean to the local church. From time to time during the winter remind
both minister and music committee of the opportunity the school offers. If necessary,
the Guild will cooperate by sending a personal letter to the minister urging your
attendance.
But begin to plan NOW. It has been predicted that soon the deciding factor in the
selection of a minister of music will be the candidate's success or failure with children. These summer schools, more than anything else, will keep you in the vanguard.
FESTIVALS AND SEMINARS
With the Choristers' Guild's more central location, it will be possible for Mrs. Jacobs
to conduct a larger number of seminars and festivals, at less cost to the local organizations. Late January is reserved for the South, and February for Texas and the
Midwest. Take the leadership in your community, and place the children's choir
movement in the limelight.
Dr. Whittlesey has persuaded his church to sponsor a seminar, and offer it to all
directors of the city without registration fee.
Hubert Taylor has been the mainspring of a midwinter workshop for several successive
years. This year it is to combine adult and children's choir classes.
IN UNION IS STRENGTH (/
Your choir is a part of the total religious training program of your church, and your
church is a part of your community. All three should profit from your efforts.
In making your plans for the choir, remember that you are working with formative human
beings, who:
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learn
learn
learn
learn
most easily whatever seems to them important
most quickly what is related to what they already know
most willingly from someone they respect and admire
by doing
Remember that the church school is interested in the same children, and that if you
work as a team, the impact of both is greater.
Remember that there are other directors in the community who need your help, and some
who can help you. Jealous aloofness is an unworthy trait in one whose profession is
character building.
In your year's program, consider all three: children, church, community.
THE QUESTION BOX
"What do you advise on letting a youth choir sing regularly with an adult choir? It
seems all I've ever heard is that it's not good. In my own judgment, I believe they
would be imitating a tonal quality plus faults I'd rather they didn't hear."
Cecile Blair Samuelson, 230 Tait Ave., Los Gatos, Cal.
What is the age of the Youth Choir? Do you direct both the Youth and the Adult choir?
If the Youth choir is under High School age, it should be used with the adults only
as a separate unit, as in descants or antiphonal numbers.
If of High School age, and there is a general shortage of singers, they could be used
together. But the poor tone of the adult choir should be corrected, and the music
used should not be taxing either in range or power.
Mrs. Samuelson would appreciate hearing from others who have had this same problem.
A NEW DEPARTMENT
Do you have disciplinary problems? Margaret Kendrick, a rare combination of wholesome love of people and sharp penetration of human foibles, is to be the editor. If
there is a boy or girl in your choir that causes you trouble, ask Miss Kendrick about
it. Questions will be forwarded to her, and each issue of the Letters will publish
one or more problems with the suggested solution. Miss Kendrick is principal of
Joel Chandler Harris school in Atlanta. Her lectures at Green Lake were a rare combination of wit and common sense, of optimism and realism. That is the spirit in
which she faces her own problems, and will help you meet yours.
THE PRIMARY CHOIR
Mrs. Boyter's demonstrations at Green Lake this summer were a revelation in Primary
teaching technique. The whole rehearsal was a series of little games but each game
developed some phase of music technique. Children with training will become valuable
members of the Junior Choir; they will know note values, have a reliable sense of
rhythm and pitch, good tone, creative freedom, and excellent choir habits and attitudes.
If you plan to organize a Primary Choir:
I. Keep the age range limited, preferably four and five, and six to eight.
2. Work closely with the mothers; have them attend rehearsals regularly.
3. Expect regularity and promptness.
4. Plan every detail of the rehearsal.
5. Use very short, simple songs.
6. Every minute of rehearsal should be enjoyable and profitable.
7. Include a little singing, rhythm, ear training, creative activity, religious education in every rehearsal.
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8. Use a variety of equipment: rhythm instruments, blackboard, pictures,
drum, etc.
9. Remember that the span of attention is very short.
10. Set definite goals to be accomplished in a certain time.
FOR THE PRIMARY CHOIR
Songs and Pictures - Robert Foresman - American Book Company, Atlanta, Chicago,
New York
The Child's Book of Songs
The First Book
Hymns for Primary Worship - Westminster Press, 1703 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
The Whole World Singing - Thomas; Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, Nashville, Tennessee
Hymns for Primary Worship - Westminster Press, Philadelphia
When the Little Child Wants to Sing - Westminster Press, Philadelphia
HYMN OF THE MONTH
Praise the Lord, ye heavens adore Him
Tune Name - Hyfrydol
Composer - Rowland Pritchard, 1811-1887
Text - Foundling Hospital Collection, 1796
Praise the Lord, ye heavens adore Him; Praise Him, angels in the height;
Sun and moon, rejoice before Him; Praise Him, all ye stars of light.
Praise the Lord, for He hath spoken; Worlds His mighty voice obeyed;
Laws which never shall be broken For their guidance hath He made.
Praise the Lord, for He is glorious; Never shall His promise fail;
God hath made His saints victorious; Sin and death shall not prevail.
Praise the God of our salvation, Hosts on high, His power proclaim;
Heaven and earth and all creation, Laud and magnify His name.
TEXT: The immensity and the complexity of nature is the surest proof of God. The
birds follow laws of migration; trees, of growth and fruiting. What would happen
if the sun and•moon failed to follow the laws of the universe?
COMPOSER: Rowland Pritchard came from Wales, a hymn-singing country. Those of you
who have seen "How Green Was My Valley" have a picture of Pritchard's background.
He wrote this hymn while he was still in his teens. All his life he was a choir
singer, first as a choir boy, and then as a preceptor of the boys. The name Hyfrydol
was undoubtedly given this tune because of its Welsh origin.
The choir room should be equipped with a large world map for the study of hymns. Let
the children locate Wales. Explain that hymns have names, just as boys and girls do.
The composer is like the father, and the tune names are the names of his children.
Have the children look in the hymnal for other Welsh tune names. They will look for
rather long names with lots of consonants.
AUTHOR: Foundling Hospital was an orphans' home founded in London by a sea captain
in 1739. In those days there were no laws protecting children, and many of them were
abused and deserted. At one time there were 600 children at the Foundling Hospital.
Many wealthy people helped to support it, and the king gave $15,000 to help build a
chapel. Handel gave them the organ, and every year until he died conducted a performance of his "Messiah" to raise funds for the school. The chapel was generally so
crowded that the ladies (this was the day of hoop skirts) were asked to wear small
hoops, and the men to come without swords, to make room for more people. This hymn
was pasted in the back of the chapel hymnal that the boys and girls used. No one
knows who wrote it.
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The films, "The Mudlark" or "Oliver Twist" paint a realistic picture of the neglected
children of England in earlier days. There are thousands of unhappy children in the
world today too - the homeless in Korea, the war orphans in Europe, the poor in our
own cities, and the children with so much that they never learn how to say "Thank
You". Children with good homes and thoughtful parents should not only be grateful,
but show their gratitude. What can they do? Encourage specific suggestions. Is
there something that the children of the choir can do together as an expression of
their gratitude? Could we remember this week to thank our parents and friends for
the many kind things they do for us?
MEMORY VERSE: Oh Lord, how manifold are Thy works. In wisdom hast Thou made them
all. The earth is full of Thy riches.
FIRST WEEK: Learn the tune; give the children copies of the words and the memory
verse.
SECOND WEEK: Discussion of tune name, and composer.
THIRD WEEK: Discussion of author.
FOURTH WEEK: Use as an anthem. An arrangement by Malin, published by Birchard,
is available in s.a.b., also s.a.t.b. with children. C. Fischer also has an arrangement, No. OCS - 1557.
APOLOGIES !!!
The Letters this year were to be printed but the best laid plans of mice and men ---When we moved early this month from Los Angeles to Memphis and began to investigate
printing here we discovered that a simple four page sheet would be quite prohibitive
in cost besides limiting the amount of material. So - if you are willing we will
continue with the homespun family style Letter that you are accustomed to, and make
it a point to fill it with as much good advice as we can assemble from our wide
spread guild family.
Next month's Letter will include an extensive list of materials as well as the story
of a Country Church that made good.
For successive issues, we would like to know about Churches in Communities of
5,000 to 10,000; 10,000 to 100,000 and 100,000 or more inhabitants that can boast
of exceptional achievement.
If you know of one, please send us details.
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October, 1951
Vol. 3 - No. II
Since the most frequent request is for material, we are devoting this issue to anthems
and teaching materials. The following anthem list was compiled by Mrs. Edith Kritner,
head of the octavo department of the largest retail music store in the west. The
numbers starred are special favorites of mine.
Easter
ALLELUIA
CHRIST OUR PASSOVER
*ROBIN AND THE THORN
SONG FOR EASTER
Thanksgiving
A SEASONAL THANKSGIVING
Christmas
CAROL OF DRIFTING SNOW
*CAROL OF THE SINGING REEDS
CHRISTMAS CAROL
CHRISTMAS CAROL
JOSEPH, TENDER JOSEPH MINE
LULLABY
NOEL
SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD
SONG OF CHRISTMAS
General
BROTHER JAMES' AIR
COME, TOGETHER LET US SING
GRANT ME, 0 GOD
I WORSHIP HIM
JERUSALEM
JESUS, BLEST REDEEMER
LORD'S PRAYER
MY HEART EVER FAITHFUL
NON NOBIS, DOMINE
0 SAVIOUR SWEET
WE ARE CHILDREN OF THE KING
WORSHIP
Easter
AN EASTER CAROL
YE WATCHERS AND YE HOLY ONES
Thanksgiving
LET ALL THINGS NOW LIVING
NOW THANK WE ALL OUR GOD
PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
UNISON
Composer or Arraner
Publisher
Reimann
Mcllwrath
Niles
Eichhorn
B. F. Wood 315
H. W. Gray CMR2010
G. Schirmer 9326
H. W. Gray CMR2057
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Thiman
G. Schirmer 8470
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Dougherty-deBrant
Johnson
Dunhill
Broeckx
Reimann
Alexandrov
Gray
Hoist
Dickinson
J. Fischer 8007
J. Fischer 7710
Edw. Arnold 441
Boosey & Hawkes 4134
H. W. Gray SC210
Russian-American
Oxford 1129
A. P. Schmidt 24
H. W. Gray SC238
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Trew
Bach
W. R. Davis
Marryott
C. H. Parry
Grieg
Camilieri
Bach
Quilter
Bach
Savage
G. Shaw
DESCANTS
Oxford 1139
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E. C. Schirmer 1001
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H. W. Gray CMR1388
Ditson 15290
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G. Schirmer 8110
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H. W. Gray CMR1687
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H. W. Gray CMR 1580
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E. C. Schirmer 1009
Boosey & Hawkes MFS 69 .15
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H. W. Gray SC198
Presser 21631
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Novello 967
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Holler
K. K. Davis
H. W. Gray CMR1946
E. C. Schirmer 1581
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K. K. Davis
Sampson
B. & M. Krone
E. C. Schirmer 1819
Novello 1176
K.ios 4222
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Christmas
Dunhill
IT CAME UPON THE MIDNIGHT CLEAR
K. K. Davis
*SING WE NOEL
A. E. Baker
WHENCE IS THAT GOODLY FRAGRANCE?
General
Thiman
FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT
M. Shaw
GO FORTH WITH GOD:
PRAISE TO THE LORD, THE ALMIGHTY K. K. Davis
White
PRAYER OF ST. RICHARD OF CHICHESTER
TWO PART
Easter
Peery
ALLETUIA:
K. K. Davis
AWAKE, THOU WINTRY EARTH
Goldsworthy
CHILD'S EASTER
Goldsworthy
CHRIST THE LORD IS RISEN TODAY
Rockefeller
EASTER CAROL (Alleluia)
EASTER CAROL (World Is Blithe
Gay) McLain
Clokey
HAIL, BREATH OF LIFE
Dickinson
LORD IS ARISEN
0 SONS AND DAUGHTERS, LET US S ING Mueller
McLain
RESURRECTION
Thompson
SPRING BURSTS TODAY
Dickinson
THIS GLAD EASTER DAY
Baker
THIS JOYFUL EASTER-TIDE
Bach
UP, UP MY HEART
Thanksgiving
Castleton
FATHER, WE THANK THEE
Dicks
NOW THANK WE, 0 GOD
Farnes
PRAISE, MY SOUL, THE KING
Nagler
SONG IN PRAISE OF THE LORD
Handel
THANKS BE TO THEE
Dickson
THANKS BE TO GOD
TO GOD ON HIGH BE THANKS AND PRAISE K. K. Davis
Rachmaninoff
TRIUMPH, THANKSGIVING
Larson
*WE COME WITH SONGS OF GLADNESS
Christmas
AS JOSEPH WAS A-WALKING
G. Shaw
Bossi
BORN IS JESUS IN BETHLEHEM
CAROL OF THE BIRDS
Niles
CHILD'S WISH AT CHRISTMAS
G. R. Brown
CAROL OF THE SHEEP BELLS
Kountz
GOOD CHRISTIAN MEN, REJOICE
Mueller
GOOD FRIENDS, GIVE EAR AND SING NOEL Clokey
HEAVENLY SONG IS SUNG
Dickinson
Niles
I WONDER AS I WANDER
Lehman
NO CANDLE WAS THERE AND NO FIRE
NIGHTINGALE, AWAKE:
Dickinson
RISE UP EARLY
Kountz
STAR CANDLES
Head
Niles
*SWEET MARIE AND HER BABY
General
ALL IN THE APRIL EVENING
Diack
BEAUTIFUL SAVIOUR
Riegger
CHORALE FOR OUR COUNTRY
McKinney
COME, CHRISTIANS, JOIN TO SING
Mueller
COME, LOYAL HEARTS
Whitehead
CONSECRATION AND PRAISE
Cain
FOR THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH
York
GOD IS MY SHEPHERD
Dvorak
GOD OF ABRAHAM PRAISE
Mueller
Edw. Arnold 19
E. C. Schirmer 1574
Birchard 1138
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H. W. Gray CMR2005
Oxford CS191
E. C. Schirmer 1572
Oxford EA43
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Presser 21647
E. C. Schirmer 1550
H. W. Gray CMR1912
J. Fischer 7815
H. W. Gray CMR1966
Edwin Morris 4090
J. Fischer 8255
H. W. Gray SC237
C. Fischer 6379
Edwin Morris 4082
H. W. Gray CMR1321
H. W. Gray SC154
Birchard 1153
Willis 1114
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A. P. Schmidt 274
Choral Press 2333
H. W. Gray SC241
Galaxy
E. C. Schirmer 1577
E. C. Schirmer 1012
Pro Art Publications
1138
C. Fischer AR120
Witmark 3257
G. Schirmer 8987
Boston 2692
Galaxy 1078
C. Fischer 6304
Birchard 890
H. W. Gray SC209
G. Schirmer 9498
Chappell 8026
H. W. Gray SC213
Galaxy 1701
G. Schirmer 9675
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Flammer 86048
J. Fischer 7997
C. Fischer 6326
Oxford 2441
C. Fischer 549
H. W. Gray CMR1886
C. Fischer 6303
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Marks
GOD OF MERCY, GOD OF GRACE
H. W. Gray CMR1563
Black
GOD OF MIGHT
Flammer 86073
Bach-Kraft
GOD, THOU FAITHFUL GOD
Birchard 1255
Schvedov-Harts
GOD THROUGH ALL
Belwin 858
Shure
HIS BEAUTY NOW APPEARS
H. W. Gray CMR1885
Thiman
HYMN OF FREEDOM
H. W. Gray CMR1363
Webbe
*JESU, DO ROSES GROW SO RED?
Flammer 86049
Bach-Riegger
JESU, JOY OF MAN'S DESIRING
Tschaikowsky
Kjos 8258
LEGEND
Gamble 1747
Olds
LET ALL THE WORLD IN EVERY CORNER SING
Birchard 1270
Bach-Harts
LORD GOD, WE WORSHIP THEE
H. W. Gray CMR1565
Humperdinck
PRAYER (Hansel and Gretel)
G. Schirmer 8289
Kountz
PRAYER OF THE NORWEGIAN CHILD
SAVIOUR, LIKE A SHEPHERD LEAD US Middleton
J. Fischer 8236
Clokey
TWO DWELLINGS
J. Fischer 8431
Clokey
WHEN MORNING GILDS THE SKIES
C. Fischer 6302
Mueller
WISE MAY BRING THEIR LEARNING
Mother's Day
Malotte
G.Schirmer 9485
FOR MY MOTHER
J. W. Thompson
Summy 4o86
MOTHER'S DAY PRAYER
Voris
H. W. Gray CMR1797
SONG OF MOTHERS
Palm Sunday'
C. Fischer 6380
Teschner-Mueller
ALL GLORY, LAUD, AND HONOR
Presser
21626
Peery
HOSANNA: RAISE THE JOYFUL HYMN
JUNIOR AND MIXED CHOIR COMBINED
Easter
Kjos 5085
Gillette
ALLELUIA: CHRIST IS RISEN
Kjos 5030
Gillette
ALL GLORY, LAUD AND HONOR
Goldsworthy
J.
Fischer 7394
DAWN IN THE GARDEN
Goldsworthy
H. W. Gray 1737
EASTER ANTIPHON
C.
Fischer 6378
Dinning
FIRST PALM SUNDAY
Marryott
H.
W. Gray CMR1970
GATEWAY CAROL
J.
Fischer
8085
Shure
GREEN HILL BRIGHT WITH MORN
Mueller
C.
Fischer
6286
HE IS RISEN
Bitgood
H. W. Gray 1345
HOSANNA
H. W. Gray CMR1416
JOY DAWNED AGAIN ON EASTER DAY
Bitgood
Whitney
J.
Fischer 8185
MORE THAN A KING
Ohlson
NOW IS THE TRIUMPH:
H. W. Gray CMR2085
Marryott
Ditson 14814
ONE EARLY EASTER MORNING
Gamble 1530
0 SONS AND DAUGHTERS, LET US SING Gillette
Olds
Hall and McCreary 1606
SING, ALL YE CHRISTIAN PEOPLE
Rawls
J. Fischer 8277
SING TO THE SON OF DAVID
STRIFE IS O'ER
Scholin
Hunleth
Marryott
Ditson 15144
THIS IS EASTER DAY
Olds
WELCOME, HAPPY MORNING
Hall & McCreary 1607
Thanksgiving
Goldsworthy
COME, YE THANKFUL PEOPLE, COME
H. W. Gray CMR1879
WE PLOUGH THE FIELDS
Scholin
Belwin 706
Christmas
AWAY IN A MANGER
Hokanson
Summy 1345
BABE IN BETHLEHEM'S MANGER LAID
Bubendorf
Flammer 84190
BETHLEHEM
Goldsworthy
H. W. Gray CMR168O
Goldsworthy
CHRISTMAS STORY
J. Fischer 7317
FIRST NOEL
Goldsworthy
Edwin Morris 981
GLORY TO GOD
Bitgood
H. W. Gray CMR1872
IT CAME UPON THE MIDNIGHT CLEAR
Emery
J. Fischer 8249
NATIVITY CAROL OF MEXICAN SHEPHERDS
Gaul
Ditson 14999
NOEL
MacMichael
Flamer 84261
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General
ALL HAIL THE POWER
BLESSED ARE THEY
CHILDREN OF THE HEAVENLY FATHER
FAIREST LORD JESUS
GOD OF EARTH AND ALTAR
HOLY FATHER
HOLY, HOLY, HOLY
HOPE THOU IN GOD
JOYFUL, JOYFUL WE ADORE TIM
LO, MY SHEPHERD IS DIVINE
PRAISE THE LORD
PRAISE YE THE LORD, THE ALMIGHTY
SAVIOUR, LIKE A SHEPHERD LEAD US
SONG OF PRAISE
ST. FRANCIS' HYMN
THY KINGDOM COME
WHEN MORNING GILDS THE SKIES
YE SERVANTS OF GOD
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Staley
Schneider
Gillette
Gibbs
Merritt
Moore
Olds
Scholin
Haydn-Runkel
Olds
Olds
Gillette
Hokanson
Olds
Evans
Olds
Scholin
BLISHERS
Oxford 2013
Flammer 84307
Flammer 86055
Summy 1393
G.Schirmer 8825
H.W. Gray CMR1850
C. Fischer 6246
J. Fischer 8207
Beiwin 713
Flammer 84256
J. Fischer 8224
Ditson 15129
Summy 1356
C. Fischer 510
Gamble 1748
Beiwin 728
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Those of you who must order all your music direct, will find this publishers index
of value.
Associated Music Publishers - 25 W. 45th St., New York 19
Arthur Schmidt - 120 Boylston St., Boston, Mass.
Augsburg Press - 425 S. 4th St., Minneapolis, Minn.
Belwyn, Inc. - 43 W. 23rd St., New York
Boosey and Hawkes - P. O. Box 418, Lynbrook, N. Y.
Boston Music Co. - 116 Boylston St., Boston 16, Mass.
Bfxchard - 285 Columbus Ave., Boston 16, Mass.
Carl Fischer - 56 Cooper Square, N. Y. 3
Chappell and Co. - R. K. O. Bldg., Rockefeller Center, N. Y. 20
Choral Art Publication - 1250 Avenue of the Americas, N. Y. 20
Choral Press - 1304 Chicago Ave., Evanston, Ill.
Clayton Summy - 235 S. Wabash, Chicago, Ill.
Concordia Publishing House - 3558 S. Jefferson Ave., St. Louis 18, Mo.
E. C. Schirmer - 221 Columbus Ave., Boston, Mass.
Educational Music Bureau - 30 E. Adams St., Chicago 3, Ill.
Edvard Arnold Co. - London (Carl Fischer - agent)
Edwin B. Marks Music Corp. - R. C. A. Bldg., Radio City, N. Y. 20
Edwin H. Morris - 549 W. 52nd St., N. Y. 19
Elkan-Vogel and Co. - 1716 Sanson, Philadelphia 3, Pa.
Frederick Harris Co. - Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Fillmore Music House - 528 Elm St., Cincinnati 2, Ohio
Fitz-Simons - 615 N. La Salle St., Chicago 10, Ill.
G.Schirmer - 3 E. 43rd St., N. Y.
Gamble Hinged Music Co. - Music Publishers Holding Corp. - 619 W. 54th St., N. Y. 19
Harms - Music Publishers Holding Corp. - 619 W. 54th St., N. Y. 19
Hall-McCreary - 434 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill.
Harold Flamer, Inc. - 251 W. 19th St., New York 2
H.W. Gray - 159 E. 48th St., N. Y. 17
Lorenz - 501 E. Third St., Dayton 1, Ohio
Music Press - 130 W. 56th St., N. Y.
Novello (H. W. Gray - agent)
Neil A. Kjos - 223 W. Lake St., Chicago 6, Ill.
Oxford University Press (Cark Fischer - agent)
Paul A. Schmitt - 86-88 Tenth St., Minneapolis 2, Minn.
Presser-Ditson - Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Pro Art - 143 Broadway, N. Y. 13
Pow MUEIC CO. - 725 Boylston St., Boston, Mass.
Remick - Music Publishers Holding Corp. - 619 W. 54th St., N. Y. 19
Sam Fox Publishing Co. - R. C. A. Bldg Radio City, N. Y. 20
Witmark - Music Publishers Holding Corp. - 619 W. 54th St., N. Y. 19
Willis Music Co. - 124 E. 4th St., Cincinnati 2, Ohio
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From my files and notebooks, I have gleaned the following list of related material.
It is encouraging to see how many of you are venturing on an expanded program for your
choirs. Somewhere in this list, you may find just the thing you were looking for.
MUSIC EDUCATION MATERIAL
Tone Matching Tunes - Coit and Bampton - Flammer
It's Fun to Listen - Coit and Bampton - Flammer
Fun with Notes and Rests - Bampton - Summy
Music Fun - Books I, II, III, IV - Kenworthy Educational Service, Buffalo, N. Y.
Fun with Folk Tales - Sloan - Dutton Co., N. Y.
Fun and Folk Songs - Westminster Press, 1105 Witherspoon Bldg., Philadelphia 7, Pa.
Six Little Two-Part Canons - Rowley - Flammer - .15.
CANTATAS AND OPERETTAS
- Suitable for Junior Choir;J.H. - Junior High; 11S. - High School Choir.)
A Christmas Carol - Treharne - Willis Music Co. - J.
Abe Lincoln - Treharne - Willis Music Co. - J.
Childe Jesus - Clokey - Birchard - J.-J.H.-H.S.
Christ is Born - Clokey - Birchard J.-J.H.-H.S.
Christmas - Coleman - G. Schirmer - J.
En Route with Columbus - Wallace - Willis Music Co. - J.
Eighteen Duets for soprano and alto from the Bach Cantatas - Drinker Library,
Westminster Choir College, Princeton, N.
Hold 'em, Cowboy - Nightingale for boys - J. and J. H.
Hansel and Gretel - Humperdinck-Hayes - Willis Music Co. - J.
Messiah - 3 pt. treble - Lorenz - J. H. - H. S.
Missa Stella Matutina (2 pt. treble) - Carnevali - J. Fischer - J. H.
H. S.
Song of Faith - Carpenter - G. Schirmer - H. S.
Stabat Mater (2 pt. treble) - Pergolesi - Ox. Univ. Press - J. H. - H. S.
The Holy Night (Christmas Masque) - Page - G. Schirmer - J.
The First Thanksgiving - Wolf - Willis Music Co. - J.
The First Easter - Richter - Presser - J. - J. H. - H. S. - with reader or speech
choir.
The Maid of Domremy - Treharne - Willis Music Co. - J. - J. H.
'Twas the night before Christmas - McCollin - A. Schmidt. - J.
J.
COLLECTIONS
Anthem Book for Adult and Junior Choir - Holler - Gray - J.
Anthems for the Junior Choir - Curry - Westminster Press - J.
Choral Gems from the Masters for young voices - Grant - Boston Music Co. J. - J. H.
Great Songs of Faith - Krone - Kjos - J. H. - H. S.
Green Hill Treble Choir and Duet Book - Davis - E. C. Schirmer.
Junior Choir Anthem Book - Vol. II and V - Holler - Gray - J. - J. H.
Junior Choir Church Year Book - Rutenbeck - Flammer - J. - J. H.
Our First Songs to Sing with Descants - Krone - Kjos - J. - J. H.
The Belfry Book - Davis - Gamble Hinge - J.
The Treble Choir - Hall and McCreary - J.
Twelve Motets for two equal voices - Lassus - Music Press - J. H. - H. S.
Two-part Anthem Book - Mueller - C. Fischer - J. - J. H.
Sursum Corda (2 pt. Gregorian hymns and motets) - Davis - Boston Music Co. J. H.
H. S.
Ditson Christmas Carol Book - Ditson - J. - J. H. - H. S.
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A First Book in Hymns and Worship - Thomas - Abingdon Cokesbury, Nashville, Tenn.
Concord Hymnal - E. C. Schirmer.
Hymns for Primary Worship - Westminster Press.
Hymns for Junior Worship - Westminster Press.
Primary Hymnal - Humphreys - Standard Publishing Co. - Cincinnati, Ohio.
Primary Worship Services - Humphreys - Standard Publishing Co. - Cincinnati, Ohio.
Sing, Children, Sing - Thomas - Abingdon Cokesbury, Nashville, Tenn.
The Hymnal for Boys and Girls - Parker and Richards - Fleming Revell Co. - 158-5th
Avenue, N. Y.
The Whole World Singing - Thomas - Abingdon Cokesbury, Nashville, Tenn.
Worship and Conduct Songs for Beginners and Primaries - Presbyterian Comm. of
Publications - Richmond, Va.
GAMES
Maestro (musical Bingo) - Gamble Hings.
Flash Cards - Lyon and Healy, Chicago.
Games for Children - National Recreational Assn. - 315-4th Ave. - N. Y. 10 - 50$.
Twice 55 Games with Music - Birchard.
Rhythms for Children - Wilcox - 175 Fifth Ave. - N. Y.
Junior Music Quiz - Burch and Ripperger - Summy.
Music Time (Singing Games) Bampton Birchard.
FOR THE STORY HOUR
Call it Courage - Sperry - Macmillan - $1.75.
Childhood Days of Famous Composers - Bampton - Presser.
The Child Jesus, told by Mathew and Luke (illustrated) - Doubleday - $2.00.
100 Stories for Boys - Wallace - Abingdon Cokesbury - $1.75.
FOR THE PRIMARY CHOIR
A Kindergarten Book of Folk Songs - Warner - E. C. Schirmer.
An Outline of physical Education for 1st and 2nd Grades - Anderson & McKinley A. S. Barnes.
Let's Sing - Thompson - Augsburg Press.
New Book for Kindergarten and First Grade - Burdett, publishers.
Our First Music - Birchard.
Songs for Pre-school Children - Poulton - Standard Publishing Co. - Cincinnati.
Songs for Little People - Danielson and Conant - Pilgrim Press, Chicago.
Songs and Play for Children - Danielson and Conant - Pilgrim Press, Chicago.
Songs for the Little Child - Abingdon Cokesbury, Nashville.
Songs and Pictures - Foresman - American Book Co.
Story Hour Songs (for 3 to 6 year olds) Holmes - Boardman Press, Nashville.
The Singing School - Birchard.
(Also refer to Choristers Letter for November 1950)
FESTIVAL PROGRAM
It is a task to find suitable material for your choir, but it is an art to assemble
it into a program. The Lynchburg program looks to me like a fine example of that
ART. It was chosen, and is to be directed by Jane Thomas, minister of music of the
First Baptist Church of Lynchburg.
PROGRAM FOR THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL CHILDREN'S CHOIR FESTIVAL
Lynchburg, Virginia
I.
Rejoice, ye Christians, Loudly - J. S. Bach, arr. Glaser: E. C. Schirmer #2238 - .15
God of Youth - W. Glenn Darst - H. W. Gray - #2147 - .18
A Festival Chime - Holst: Galaxy - #8 - .20
Brother James Air - Gordon Jacob: Oxford Univ. Press - OCS 166 - .15
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Christmas Song - Holst: G. Schirmer #8119 - .16
On Christmas Night - arr. Vaughan Williams: Galaxy - .15
The Virgin's Slumber Song - Max Reger: Associated Music Publishers #91 - .15
III.
Dona Nobis Pacem - (Rounds and Canons) Robert Wilson: Hall & McCreary
His Beauty Now Appears - R. Deane Shure: Belwin #858 - .15
Worship - Geoffrey Shaw: H. W. Gray #1 - .12
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HYMNS
Hosanna, Loud Hosanna text - Threlfall: Tune - Ellacombe.
Now Alone for Mighty Empires - text-Merrill: tune-Hyfrydol.
God be with you till we meet again - arr. Vaughan Williams.
OPTIONAL NUMBER
Two Christmas Carols - arr. Healy Willan: Frederick Harris Co. - #1641.
Jesous Ahatonhia and Old French Noel
THE COUNTRY CHURCH THAT MADE GOOD
Federated Church of Sandwich, Ill. - (population 2900) - (membership 300)
Mrs. Frerichs - minister of music
Rev. Robert T. Frerichs - minister
The original Junior Choir including boys and girls from fourth through eighth
grades, in two years outgrew its choir loft. The obvious solution was to organize a
Junior High Choir. When it became clear that it would mean an end to the large losses
of young people during the critical Junior High and High School years, and would mean
a significant strengthening of the spiritual, educational, evangelistic and fellowship
program of the church, a complete graded choir program was undertaken. It was carefully integrated with the church school and youth fellowship programs, and was to
continue on a high spiritual and musical level.
The Music Committee, responsible for the music activities of the church, helped
organize Junior and Junior High mothers groups, which are essential to a program of
this sort. They provide help every Sunday for robing, keep robes clean and mended,
furnish treats, and help constructively to maintain high morale and loyalty among the
children.
Music training is a part of the program of the Cradle Roll, Pre-school and Kindergarten Departments. In the Primary Department, preparation is made for promotion into
the Junior Department, and into leadership, as a choir member, in the public worship
of the church. Some of the hymns, the Lord's Prayer, and other parts of the church's
worship are a part of the learning program. On Rally Sunday, the new Junior Choir,
including 4th to 6th grade children, makes its first appearance each year.
In the Junior Choir, the children learn simple anthems during the first part of the
year; then, for the Christmas concert and later, they begin to sing anthems with
descants, or two part anthems. At the end of three years in the Junior Choir, the
children graduate to Junior High Choir, where two and three part music is used almost
entirely and where special opportunities are presented for more talented singers. The
Junior High Sextet is e select group which sings three part girls music, and of course
has an extra hour of rehearsal, and more numbers to prepare.
The rehearsal of the Junior High Choir is held as part of the three-hour Sunday
evening program for Junior Highs, beginning at 5:00 P.M. with an hour of musical work.
Then comes supper, served in rotation by the mothers of the children in the Junior High
Fellowship. After supper, under the guidance of their sponsors, the group has its
business meeting, frequent programs, and a social hour with adjournment at 8 o'clock.
Graduation from Junior High marks the entry of most of the young people into the
Senior Choir, and into the special high school groups, which include the famous Federated Girls'Octet, and the Boys' Chorus. For girls, membership in the Octet marks the
highest honor in the musical program. This group, entered only by try-outs and open
only to girls in the music program, meets every Monday night for an hour rehearsal,
and is always in demand for special concerts and other appearances. This year and
last, the Octet has made tours of churches in Illinois and Iowa.
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The Boys' Double Quartette, begun two years ago, has already appeared in several
of the Octet concerts, and sung often in church services. Open to all High School
boys, it rehearses for an hour every Sunday morning. All of this is in addition to
the work of the Senior Choir, for membership and faithful attendance in the Choir are
required for membership in both the honor groups. Altogether, the Senior Choir has
22 high school age members.
The Senior Choir, in addition to its leadership of the worship services, presents
annually at least two concerts. The Christmas concert is given jointly by all the
groups. At Easter, the Senior Choir presents the annual Messiah concert, and usually
shares with the other choirs an all-request concert in the Spring, or presents one of
the great oratorios. There are 43 members in the Senior Choir, more than half of whom
take free voice lessons with Mrs. Frerichs, and are frequently used as soloists. The
Senior Choir is not just for high school students; it points with pride to its three
generations of Potters, Mrs. Eva Potter, her son Glendon, an outstanding baritone
soloist, and his son Donald, a sophomore in high school, all regular members of the
choir. The balance of young and mature voices has been found to provide the best possible results for church choral singing.
When the program had increased to somewhat near its present strength, the leadership program was started. The six young people for whom the church provided organ
lessons, are now available for accompanying, for special work, and to relieve the
regular organist. Mrs. Frerichs taught five girls in the basic procedures of conducting and choral management. These young people are now conducting most of the
choral groups under the supervision of the minister of music.
The church, because it appreciates its musical leadership, has for the past six
years given children in its music program the gift of a week at camp provided they
have met the high requirements of the choir program. Every summer, 40 to 50 girls
and boys with their leaders have six days at the Federated Music Camp, with the expenses paid by the church. At camp, classes are held in creative music and worship
for the children, while the high school young people act as counsellors and are trained
in Christian leadership.
After the first four years of this expanded program, the Church has answered its
original question "Can it be done"? with an enthusiastic affirmative. Church school
attendance has increased 100%, and because the teachers wanted more time, the hour of
church school was put at 9:30 instead of 10:00. Attendance is always good, for the
goal of the choir members is attendance at church school, church and rehearsal at least
90% of the time. The two youth fellowships - junior high, and high school - each meet
for a three hour program of worship, food and fellowship on Sunday evenings during the
church year. Many new families have been attracted to the church by its program for
children and youth, although strict rules forbid the enrolling of choir members who
are related to other churches in the community. The greatest value to the church lies
not alone in the quality and beauty of its music, but much more in the long and fine
training its children receive in responsible leadership, Christian education, and in
service to the church, for experience is continually teaching that children who grow
up in the music and educational programs of a church which requires high standards of
them, are members who take their church very seriously and are active leaders in its
work.
(Condensation of a report by Rev. Frerichs, who is now director of the Rural Church
program of the Northern Baptist Assembly.)
HYMN OF THE MONTH - "For the Beauty of the Earth"
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adaptation from a chorale
In England, it used to be the custom on a special Sunday in late summer, to hold
a flower service. Everyone brought the lovliest flowers from his garden to the Church.
The whole Church was decorated with flowers, and the choir boys carried an armful of
them in the procession. After the service the flowers were taken to hospitals and to
old people who had no gardens of their own.
Some of our Choristers Guild choirs are bringing this custom to our country. The
boys and girls in the choir each plant and care for some spring flowering bulb. Then,
about Easter time, when all the bulbs are in bloom, they hold a special service, carry
their own flowers in the procession, and after the service take them to some friend or
invalid. They have had the fun, not only of bringing pleasure to someone, but of helping God to create the beauty of the earth.
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Folliet Pierpont wrote this hymn for such a service. He mentions many of the
things for which we can thank God, just as we would, if we were to make a list here
in rehearsal. We would mention things just as they came into our minds. Read the
words of the hymn, and notice all the things for which we raise our hymn of grateful
praise.
Can you add others? Suppose you keep your eyes open this week to the beauty of the
earth, and at the next rehearsal bring one little thing that you have noticed. We
will have a large table just inside the door, and you may arrange your exhibits there
in any way you like. Who would like to paint the motto to go over the table?
The tune we use was adapted from a chorale tune. Now chorale is a word every choir
member should know, because it was the first music created by the Protestant church.
When Martin Luther was a young priest, several hundred years ago, the music in the
Catholic church was so difficult that only a very good choir could sing it. Luther
thought the people should have a chance to sing too, so he and some of his friends
wrote hymns that would be easy to learn and to sing, and that would sound good if lots
of people were singing it together. They called these hymns chorales, and the people
loved singing them so much that some of them are in almost every hymnal even today.
Some of the best known chorales are: Now thank we all our God; Praise to the Lord
the Almighty; 0 Sacred Head Now Wounded; A Mighty Fortress. You can imagine how they
would sound with several hundred people singing for all they are worth, and the organ
adding still more.
When you sing the words "Lord of all, to Thee we raise this our hymn of grateful
praise", shut your eyes and imagine yourself in a big, big church full of people all
singing joyously along with you.
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While They Last... "Four Old Chorales at only 60 a copy.
But be sure to enclose payment with your order; we can't
afford to bill you at that price. These chorales are beautiful, historic, and suitable for adult or children's choirs or
both. Mimeographed suggestions for their use as anthems will
be included with each order of 10 or more.
Send your order to the Choristers' Guild address.
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FROM THE MAILBOX
Ruth Turner, Texarkana, Ark. "I enjoy the Guild Letter very much and find many
helpful hints in it. Our choirs are bigger than ever this year. I had 49 Juniors
present last week, and 35 young people. I have a game with them before rehearsal,
then light refreshments - the mothers take turns furnishing refreshments - and tell
them a story about the hymn of the day. With my Youth Choir, I'm giving them - in
small, easy doses - a history of the development of our church hymnody, using *"The
Gospel in Hymns" as a basis. This little story also leads to a new hymn each week,
and they are interested, I believe."
*Bailey: Scribners - $6.00.
A new member from Philadelphia. "At the present time our church music and
minister seem oblivious to the value of a Junior Choir - either religiously or
educationally. However, I work with the Nursery and Beginners in Sunday School
and I am hopeful, through this channel, to bring about a revival of a good Junior
Choir. It's a tough job, but I think it's worth it. I learned of the Guild through
Miss Virginia Cheesman."
Maurice N. Clopton, Okmulgee, Oklahoma. "I have just received the September issue
of the Choristers' Guild letter and, as per usual, appreciated the information in it.
Below are four names of music directors whom I thought ;,you might contact, and interest
in becoming members of the Guild."
Many of you have been helpful in sending the names of prospective members. Could
we ask you now, to go one step further? Take time to telephone or write your friends;
urge them to send in their membership dues and begin receiving the Letters. Give then.
the new address. Your word of recommendation has more weight than ours. Let's set a
goal of one thousand members this season. Let's set and REACH that goal.
The first special contribution for the 1951-52 season comes from
JOHN GABBERT of the Redford Ave. Presbyterian Church of Detroit,
who sent $10.00 to further the objectives' of the Guild.
You may not be able to send $10.00, but you can hold a special
service, and dedicate half the offering to the cause of Children's
Choirs ***** you can arouse the other directors in your community
***** you can start a Choristers' Guild chapter ***** you can
sponsor a seminar ***** you can plan to attend summer school *****
you can help to achieve a membership of ***** ONE THOUSAND *******
EHOSTER5 GUILD
LE-TTEZS
November, 1951
Vol. 3 - No. III
Recently I heard Senator Kefauver talk on the necessity of keeping our country morally
strong within. He has perhaps done more than any other man of our time to expose
crime, but the real interest of this rather quiet man is to remedy the cause of crime.
Many of the criminals he interviewed in his investigation blamed their failure in life
on the lack of church influence in their childhood. As I listened, I could not help
but think of the tremendous character influence your combined choirs represent. We
work with two of the greatest influences known: religion and art; we work through
the strongest moral force in society - the Christian Church. And as Choristers Guild
associates, we work with a keen awareness of our personal obligation to the present
and to the future, to others and to ourselves. If we have that awareness, we will
constantly be improving our methods, enlarging and deepening the meaning of the choir,
and supporting the Guild's efforts to bind together in one universal movement the
scattered seeds of growth. It is the participating, not the passive members who will
bring that goal in sight.
As a participating member, send the enclosed folder, along with a personal note, to
some church musician who should belong to the Choristers Guild.
CHRISTMAS
ISSUE. . . Will you share your experiences?
Have you a beautiful Christmas tradition in your church?
Do you give some unusual community service?
Have you found some good Christmas music?
What in your Christmas celebration is different and meaningful?
Let us include it in a symposium of Christmas ideas in our next issue.
Be a participating member.
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Introducing Margaret Kendrick, the Problem Doctor . . . Those who were in her classes
at Green Lake, will recognize her special quality of wit and wisdom done up in an unpretentious package of common sense.
The Question: "What are the characteristics of each age group, and how can one fill
their needs and interests so that discipline isn't a problem."
The Answer:
"This is a real sixty-four dollar question . . . We will assume that our questioner
has at least three groups, probably four, i. e., Beginners (Ages 4, 5), Primary
(Ages 6, 7, 8), Juniors (Ages 9, 10, ii), Intermediates (Ages 12, 13, 14, 15, 16).
It is to be hoped that none of the groups meet together, since it would be almost
impossible to interest even two of the groups at the same time. You could find an
excellent chart of the characteristics and needs of these groups opposite page 68 in
the 1947 Yearbook of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development of
the N.E.A. - 1201 Sixteenth Street, N. W., Washington 6, D. C. (Price $2.25). This
would be a very helpful book on certain phases of child study.
Another splendid book is "Understanding Children" by Dr. Sherrill Abingdon, Cokesbury
Press, New York City, and/or Nashville, Tennessee. (Price $1.50). The first book
gives the viewpoint of the public school, while the second stresses religious education.
We must remember that all children are different, yet the group can be interested by
the same thing. Plan carefully, trying to understand the needs of the whole group.
Plan more than you need. A busy child rarely gives trouble, and an idle one gives
little else.
Be sure that you are at the choir session before the children. Remember that the
first ones there usually "set the pace".
Do not choose to learn something too hard, else they will become discouraged and give
up easily and do not insult their mentality by the choice of too easy material.
Do not issue any orders you cannot enforce without a scene.
Expect their respect and good order and you will usually get it. Never let them feel
that you are uneasy in their presence, or that you are uncertain about being able to
do a good job with them.
Finally, really be interested in them, in their hobbies, their studies, their homelife and their friends. They know whether your interest is pretended or real, and
will co-operate with you accordingly.
I don't think very highly of DISCIPLINE. If you and your choirs learn to live and
work happily together, you won't need to use the big word."
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Have YOU a question for the Problem Doctor???
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INFORMATION ON FILE . . . Harvey Goldsmith of Forest City, N. C., wants to know how
to file material. "I have a filing cabinet, but no knowledge of what to keep or how
to keep it so I can find it."
There are only a few rules for convenient filing:
1. Separate the material on hand: programs, music suggestions, pictures, etc.
2. Put each pile into a folder, and label it clearly (with pencil, in case you
want to change your classification later).
3. Place the folders in alphabetical order in the cabinet.
4. Make an alphabetical index of the folders. Space the index to allow for
later additions.
Or reverse the order:
1. Make a list of the various subjects you propose to collect.
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2.
3.
4.
5.
Label folders accordingly.
Put them in the cabinet in alphabetical order.
Place your accumulated material in the proper folder.
Make the index.
Subjects of Interest to the Children's Choir Director:
Choir pictures
Teaching methods
Teaching Pictures
New material
Religious education
Programs
Hymn information
Choir Projects
Recreation suggestions, etc.
Child Psychology
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Another special gift
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$7.00 from Edith Lovell Thomas of New York
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Bargain
FOUR Chorales for SIX cents
Bargain...
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HYMN OF THE MONTH . . . Now Thank We All Our God - A chorale found in practically
every hymnal - Tr. Catherine Winkworth - Nun Danket - Martin Rinkart.
Rinkart (1586-1649) as a boy, was a chorister in the famous St. Thomas Church in
Leipzig, where Bach was later musical director. This chorale is widely used on
occasions of general thanksgiving, such as the completion of the cathedral in Cologne,
the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, and the ending of the Boer War. Churches of
all denominations find it particularly fitting for festival occasions; and we consider it an appropriate hymn for the Thanksgiving month.
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q -0 CANDLE LIGHT AND SAFETY . . . If you plan a Christmas Candlelight Service,
`‘,0 -\ 1 / and want to avoid the danger of fire, you will be interested in the
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batteries are included for each candle, and replacements can be
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- MUSIC FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR compiled by Esther Wiedower, publicity manager for Morse Preeman Music Company
S.A.B.
BREAD OF GOD
Cain
No. 88569
Flammer
Very good for a communion service, or one based on the sayings
of Christ.
HOLY, LORD GOD
Cain
No. 88549
Flammer
Some division of the soprano part.
JUBILATE DEO
Mozart-Ronaldson No. 1063
Pro-Art
Both Latin and English words. A cappella. Sharp contrasts
in volume.
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Hall & McCreary
No. 5512
LET US PRAISE GODOlds
Reader speaks the words which are echoed by the choir.
Flammer
No. 88573
arr. Riegger
NOEL BOURGUIGNON
Burgundian carol, best sung a cappella. Fine for a carol
service.
Hoffman
NOW THANK WE ALL OUR GOD arr. Goodell No. 46103
May be used by all three parts, or as a soprano-baritone duet.
Belwin
No. 1022
ONE OF GOD'S BEST MORNINGS Shure
Optional high soprano descant for the last two pages.
Hall & McCreary
Marryott
No. 5501
PRAISE CAROL
Text from an old church Gallery Book tells the complete
Christmas story. Typical carol-like music, which should
be sung in a stately but spirited manner.
No. 4W3194
Witmark
PRAYER FOR A REVERENT HEART Runkel
Alto or baritone solo.
E. C. Schirmer
SING NOW WITH GREAT REJOICING BachNo. 2268
Free transcription by Fewell of the Bach harmonization of "What
God Does Is Well Done". Descant for the last two pages. Advent text.
Belwin
SING TO THE LORD OF HARVEST Haydn-Scholin No. 1085
Thanksgiving or general.
E. C. Schirmer
Hassler
No. 2240
SING UNTO THE LORD
Text from Psalm 96:1-3. Not easy.
E. C. Schirmer
SURELY HE HATH BORNE OUR GRIEFS Lotti No. 1124
Text Isaiah 53:4. Best done a cappella.
E. C. Schirmer
THOU ALL TRANSCENDENT DEITY Palestrina No. 1697
Also published for women's voices, #1074.
E. C. Schirmer
THY WISDOM, LORD, ALL THOUGHT TRANSCENDETH Arr. Davison
The "Kol Shaven" melody.
No. 1703
Runkel
No. 4W3193
WORSHIP THE LORD
Witmark
Text from Psalm 96:4-6; 145:8. Soprano solo.
S.S.A.
BOUNDLESS MERCY
Arr. Hoggard
Shawnee
American folk hymn.
CHILDREN OF THE HEAVENLY FATHER Arr. Riegger No. 89089 Flammer
Swedish folk song. Solo over the other three parts for the
second verse.
DONA NOBIS PACEM
Arr. Wilson
No. 2520
Hall & McCreary
The traditional canon. Latin words only.
GO NOT FAR FROM ME, 0 GOD Zingarelli No. 1238
ProArt
Arranged by Peter Stone from a "Christus e Miserere",
text of which is Psalm 71: 10, 8, 7.
IF YE LOVE ME KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS Madsen No. CM6603
C. Fischer
Text from John 14:5-7, 15-18. Has its rhythmic problems.
LIFT UP YOUR HEADS
Hopkins
No. 9861
G. Schirmer
NOEL, NOEL
Gevaert-Grayson No. 6014
Kjos
REJOICE, ALL MEN
Niles
No. CM6462
C. Fischer
Both words and music by Mr. Niles. Divided parts, echo chorus,
solos in all three parts. Could be used Christmas morning.
RUSSIAN CAROL
Maltzeff-Riegger No. 89115
Flammer
For Christmas Eve only, if the opening phrase (Christ is
coming to the earth this night) is to mean anything. Would
work into a Christmas Eve pageant.
SHEPHERDS AND THE INN Arr. Gaul
No. 15090
Ditson
Mexican carol. Solo voices or solo groups for the Landlord
and Shepherds.
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Shawnee
Arr. Hoggard
THREE KINGS
French carol. Accompaniment may be used by piano or organ,
or both.
Hall & McCreary
No. 2541
TREBLE CHOIR RESPONSES Heller
One of the few balanced treble-voice collections of responses.
De Lassus
TWO EXCERPTS FROM PENITENTIAL PSALM NO. V
No. 2W3397
Witmark
Ed. Tillinghast
Hide Not Thy Face, and Thou Shalt Arise. A Cappella. Both
Latin and English text.
Flammer
Cherubini-Riegger No. 89078
VENI JESU
Latin and English words. Effective with a boy choir.
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(Our special article this month comes from the experience of Mrs. Haskell Boyter,
who is definitely outstanding in her music education classes for primary age children.
She has the combined qualities of good judgment, and sound, specialized training. Her
Mothers' Choir Guild is an actively functioning organization, and her observations on
that subject are of practical value.)
THE MOTHERS' CHOIR GUILD `
by
Mrs. Haskell Boyter
Of all the agencies in a church which aid in the development of a choir program,
the Mothers' Choir Guild will perhaps be given first place. A properly organized
Guild can relieve the director of much responsibility and work and allow his energies
to be spent on the choristers and their spiritual and musical training.
Let us note some specific details of organizing such a group:
First, if it is possible to enlist the fathers of the children in our choirs,
by all means we should do so, for their interest and support can be a most valuable
aid on many occasions, and their good will is an invaluable asset. In cases where
this is possible, one might change the name to "Parents' Choir Guild" and proceed as
usual with the organization, using as many fathers on as many committees as possible.
Probably the most successful pattern for organization will be a choir mother for
each choir, with another mother appointed (by the director, preferably,) to act as
chairman of the Guild and be the link between the director and other choir mothers.
The Guild would then be composed of a choir mother from each choir, the director,
and a general chairman for the entire group.
This chairman should be a person with a good "over all" picture of the choir
program. She should be able to coordinate the work of all choirs with the other
choir mothers and aid the director in accomplishing the work as he has it outlined
for the season.
It should be her responsibility to arrange all group meetings for the Guild,
and keep the activities of the various choir programs before the mothers of the
choristers. She should see that through the Guild all the things the director would
like, are accomplished through each choir.
She should be very tactful, affable, and popular, with a keen sense of humor.
Intelligence and good judgment will be most helpful in the discharging of her duties,
and through clever planning and engineering this very important person can attend to
practically all the harrowing details which necessarily claim much of the director's
time and energy in the season's work.
The director should have a definite plan of procedure for each choir. This
should be outlined in advance of the beginning of the season so that each choir
mother may have definite instructions for her other mothers. When the director has
such plans ready, it is a simple matter for the chairman then to call the first
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meeting of the Guild for the season, at which time the director explains what is
expected from each choir for, shall we say, the first three months.
The director should outline the major projects for the year, involving the
entire system; for example, combined choir programs at Christmas, Easter, and end
of season. Possibly a Hymn Festival, or other such project, may be an additional
activity involving all choirs. Dates should be announced at this meeting, if possible. The special features prepared by individual choirs should be announced at
this meeting also, and in this way misunderstandings and much loss of time can be
avoided, and the mothers can KNOW what is expected of them. The director should be
DEFINITE in giving instructions to the choir mothers, and a well chosen guild can
alleviate almost all the unnecessary, but too-often-experienced painful ordeal of
producing a season's work in a multiple choir program.
Probably two other such group meetings during the year will be sufficient.
However, some Guilds have monthly meetings, and discuss the month's activities.
This frequent meeting can very easily combine a social hour (luncheon, etc.) with a
business meeting, and a congenial group can have a very profitable, as well as a
delightful time. Many lasting friendships have been made in this way, and it is
well worth ones giving this plan a trial.
Each choir mother in turn will need to have more or less the same qualifications
suggested for the chairman. She will be responsible for organizing the mothers of
her particular choir. She will appoint committees to care for certain phases of
activities. The more mothers enlisted in the activities of the choristers, the more
interest there will be in the choir.
The director might best determine the appointment of committees for which the
mothers are best suited by having them fill out a questionnaire similar to the
following:
Name
Address
Phone
Child's Name
Age Birthday
Mo. Day Yr.
There are many avenues of
organization. You can each be
director and the children. If
one or more committees, kindly
preference.
service for our parents in this
of great assistance to both your
you are willing to serve on any
check your choice in order of
Clerical Work (typing, filing, etc.) Only occasionally
will there be need of such help, but it can be of great
assistance when needed.
Attendance Records. Weekly, monthly and yearly records,
attendance contest records, etc. Very important and
will require regular attendance at 7Effearsals.
Telephone. Names of choir members will be divided into
groups and telephone chairmen appointed for getting
messages to choir members and their mothers.
Vestments. Mothers are needed to keep vestments in good
repair, and assist children in getting them on, and
returned to proper place after being worn.
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Transportation. Possibly two or three times a year there
may be needed the use of several cars for transporting the
choir.
Hospitality. A few social functions during the year will
mean much in building and developing morale. Planning and
executing parties and pleasant experiences for the group
will be of great service.
Public Performance. Christmas, Easter, and at other times,
assistance may be needed in helping children get on and off
the platform, etc. --- just a bit of "mothering" in other
words.
Librarian. To assist in giving out and returning to proper
place --- books, mimeographed material, etc.
Equipment. Moving of tables, chairs, instruments, musical
game materials, etc. (if these are used).
Miscellaneous. From time to time there will be small needs
not anticipated, and if you are willing to serve in such a
capacity as most needed, please check.
Thanks,
Mr.
Director
As one can readily see, a director who is fortunate enough to have a choir
mother in each group who can and will discharge all the details through functioning
committees, can almost shed the cares and worries which would otherwise make it
almost impossible to produce a quality job. But with an efficient Guild backing
him, he can have opportunity to become a real specialist in his field, and devote his
entire attention to the children and their musical and spiritual training. So often
directors are so hampered by the heavy load of details involved in the development of
a choir program, they necessarily have to spread themselves exceedingly thin in too
many places to do all that must be done.
But the director must not only be a good director who knows how to teach music,
but he should be a good psychologist as well, for he will encounter many types of
parents---many good ones, but also many "problem parents". The choir mothers whose
qualities are listed above, are exceptions, and are few and far between.
In most every group, one is apt to encounter some of the following problems:
(1) The unsympathetic parent - one who is impatient, nags, and
reprimands the child instead of encouraging him on his way in his musical
and spiritual experience.
(2) The misguided parent - one who is over-anxious and expects too
rapid musical progress because of a lack of understanding of the natural
limitations of the child, and the mental and technical problems facing the
young child.
(3,) The ignorant parent - one who expects the child to do his assigned
work voluntarily and often punishes him and distracts him in various ways.
Without parental interest and encouragement, the average chorister will not
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continue through the initial stages of choir work to the time when he can
begin to enjoy singing and other musical activities.
(4) The indifferent parent - one who is perhaps the most commonly
encountered. The "catch as you can" attitude is one of great seriousness
and presents a problem for even the expert director-psychologist.
(5) The emotionally disturbed parent - one who unconsciously creates
a negative home environment and is psychologically the underlying cause of
a degree of failure in her child.
What then, can we as directors do to alleviate the stress and strain caused by
these "problem parents"?
OF FIRST IMPORTANCE IS THE DIRECTOR'S OWN ATTITUDE TOWARD THESE PARENTS.
We must be tolerant, patient, kind, sympathetic and objective ourselves before
we can begin to help the parents of our choristers. We must possess a sincerely
friendly attitude toward each parent and avoid scorn, for the parent is not deliberately trying to make things difficult, but rather is acting unwittingly. We must
always be diplomatic in our methods of approach and avoid embarrassing situations.
If the director shows his parents that he is sincerely interested in them and
their children, and presents them with very definite and rational plans to follow
in assisting with the choir work at home, he is more than apt to easily win the
confidence and cooperation of his parents.
An active "Parent-Director" relationship is the most effective organization I
can recommend for the well-being of a multiple choir musical program.
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Alvin Wooster, North Adams, Mass. "Two months ago we were busy at Green Lake time goes by fast. It was an inspiration to have attended the Choir School and I
I particularly enjoyed Miss Kendrick's
am using many ideas garnered there
course. As you grow older you sometimes forget to look at things thru the eyes of
a child to whom everything in the world is so new and interesting. If you have a
folder about the Choristers Guild, I believe the following would be interested."
Franklin Bristol, Richmond, Va. "I am enclosing a belated check for $3.00 for my
Choristers Guild dues this year. I notice that the price is $2.00, but it is worth
a lot more than that to me. I hope I am not too late for the first issue. We are
beginning our plans for a junior choir festival next Spring, and will tell you
more as it develops."
Mrs. Donald Winters, School of Church Music, Louisville, Ky. "We look forward to
this most interesting publication each month. I am strongly recommending it to
my classes in Junior Choir Methods, and trust that many of them are subscribing,
or will when they get into the field if student budgets prevent it now."
Arnold Lewerenz, Riverside, Calif. "We've had a good year and anticipate a better
one this year. We bought and paid for 100 new royal blue rayon faille robes this
past year. I spent July making up the first church directory the church has ever
had, and including officers, meetings and activities, and having a classified section in the rear for advertisers - mostly from the membership. I sold enough to
make over $200.00 to be used for choir activities."
Mrs. David Gerig, Ft. Wayne, Ind. "The Indiana Synod of the United Lutheran
Church held a three day conference for our choir directors and organists and I
was asked to have charge of the discussion group on Children's Choirs. I used
Mrs. Jacob's "The Successful Children's Choir" as the basis for our discussion.
It was very well received, and much interest was shown."
Elaine Myers, College Place, Washington. "Please renew my subscription to the
Letters. I enjoy it so much. I'm going strong again this year; two choirs of
about fifty each. Sometimes they'll sing together, though it's hard to handle so
many, the results are more than worth the effort."
Mrs. Nat Go Smith, Lake Worth, Fla. "While attending the Leadership Training
School at Maryville this summer)I met Mr. Matthias (you will remember him I know)
who suggested that I subscribe to your Choristers Guild letters. I have three
choirs nost, and an adult group. Our congregation is small, less than 400, but our
music program is moving right along. I have 17 Juniors, 38 Youths, and 20 Adults.
I use a service cross system, with a special presentation night in the Spring. My
two young chairs are members of the National Federation of Music Clubs, and last
year won the National honor at the Florida State Junior Festival. I don't suppose
you are interested in all this chatter about my "children", but Mr. Matthias seemed
to think you would be."
Cboriottro uitti
204 North Second Street
MEMPHIS 3, TENNESSEE
RUTH KREHBIEL JACOBS
Executive Director
Every church should have a childrens choir
Every church can have a childrens choir
Every choir can improve
Every leader can grow
. . . with the help of the ...
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An association of children's choir directors and ministers — national and inter-denominational in scope —
founded in 1949 by Mrs. Ruth Krehbiel Jacobs, to promote
HIGHER STANDARDS OF ACHIEVEMENT
CLOSER COOPERATION BETWEEN CHOIR AND CHURCH SCHOOL
OPPORTUNITY FOR THE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS AND METHODS
LOCAL COOPERATION THROUGH SEMINARS AND FESTIVALS
SUMMER SCHOOLS FOR FELLOWSHIP AND INTENSIVE TRAINING
Membership in the Choristers Guild is open to all who are interested in Children's Choirs. It offers . . . a
ational fellowship . . . the benefit of the experiences of others . . . the privilege of a uniform choir award
. . . the inspiration of seminars and summer schools . . . the stimulus of the monthly Choristers Guild Letters.
The Choristers Guild Letters (monthly, from September to June) bring you information on
NEW MUSIC AND MATERIALS
NEW IDEAS AND CURRENT HAPPENINGS
PRACTICAL ADVICE ON
CHOIR ORGANIZATION
CHILD GUIDANCE
VOCAL TRAINING
EDUCATIONAL AND RECREATIONAL PROJECTS
I believe in the aims of the Choristers Guild, and enclose my membership fee of $2.00, for the current season.
Please send the Choristers Guild Letters to me at this address:
Name
Address
Church Served__ __________ _
0AVIS PIPINTINO CO., MEMPHIS
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Vol. 3 - No. 4
December, 1951
IT'S CHRISTMAS
Things to Make . . .
A manger scene
Christmas Carol Books
Christmas cards and gifts for the family
Christmas Services for the Whole Family • •
Christmas Eve Carol Service
Community Carolling
Round-the-Table Carol Service
White Gifts Service
Christmas Customs and Carols of Many Lands
Festival Processionals . . .
Stop while choirs are still in the aisles, sing first stanza of several familiar
carols before resuming processional
Candle light processional. In one New England colonial church, candles are placed
in all the windows, and these with the processional candles are the only light.
Use echo choir for alternate stanzas.
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Christmas Films . . .
Christ is Born - slides: Methodist Publishing House, Nashville, Tenn. - $14.80.
Christmas Around the World - sound film; Methodist Publishing House
$10.00 sale; $2.50 rental.
Merry Christmas - sound film: Church Film Service, 2595 Manderson St., Omaha 11,
Neb., uses Vienna Choir Boys.
Shrine of a Nation - (Westminster Abbey) - not Christmas but of interest to the
choir - sound film - Church Film Service.
Not Christmas, but interesting for the choir, uses boy choir
rental: $2.50 one day; $7.50 one week
PICTURES TO ILLUSTRATE THE CHRISTMAS STORY
Announcement to the Shepherds - Plockhorst - P 811
Madonna from Holy Night - Correggio B 1907
Holy Night - Correggio - P 367
The Nativity - Sinkel - P 3341
Star of Bethlehem - Pighleim B 1024
Christmas Chimes - Blashfield -*P 1020
Nativity - Hofmann - P 797C
Holy Night - Havenith T.P.
Nativity - Muller - W 12
Arrival of the Shepherds - Lerolle - P 620
Tl'e Wise Men on Their Way to Bethlehem - Harper - U 101
Star of Bethlehem - Pighleim C 940: B 1024
Star of Bethlehem - Warren W 590
Magi on the Way to Bethlehem - Portaels B 1563
The Three Wise Men - Taylor - G 19
Worship of the Magi - Burne-Jones P 963
Worship of the Magi - Hofmann - W 20
(Index to Abbreviations of Picture Companies
publishing inexpensive prints)
B
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George P. Brown
Cosmos Picture Company
Erward Gross Co.
Perry Picture Co.
Reinthal and Newman
Soule Art Co.
Tabor Prang Art Co.
Union Press
University Prints
W. A. Wilde Co.
(Keep this list
Beverly, Mass.
461 Eighth Ave., New York
New York City
Malden, Mass.
106 W. 29th St., N. Y.
101 Ferry St., Malden, Mass.
Springfield, Mass.
1816 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Newton, Mass.
12G Boylston St., Boston, Mass.
for future reference)
CHILDREN'S RECORDS - as Christmas
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Gifts
A Child's Garden of Manners - Educational Record
Manners Can Be Fun - Educational Record
The Doctor Song - Educational Record
Herman Ermine In Rabbit Town - Educational Record
The Churkendoose - Educational Record
Little Red Riding Hood - Story
Alice In Wonderland - Story
Pinocchio - Story
The Little Engine That Could - Story
Winnie-the-Pooh - Story
The Flight Of The Bumblebee - Musical Record
Raindrop Prelude (D-Flat) - Chopin - Musical Record
Nutcracker Suite - Tchaikowsky - Musical Records
Carnival of the Animals - Saint-Saens - Musical Records
15. Pee-Wee The Piccolo - Musical Story
16. Tubby The Tuba - Musical Story
17. The Emperor's New Clothes - Musical Story
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Said The Piano To The Harpsichord - Musical Story
Peter And The Wolf - Prokofieff - Musical Story
Sparky's Magic Piano - Musical Story
Rusty In Orchestraville - Musical Story
Lonesome Octopus - Musical Story
Grumpy Shark - Musical Story
Further Adventures of Tubby the Tuba - Musical Record
"Dance of the Comedians" from The Bartered Bride - Smetana - Musical Record
Gaiete Parisienne - Offenbach - Musical Record
German Dances - Mozart - Musical Records
"Golliwog's Cakewalk" from The Children's Corner - Debussy - Musical Record
"Polka" from The Age of Gold - Shostakovich - Musical Record
"Anitra's Dance" and "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from Peer Gynt Suite
No. I - Grieg - Musical Records
The Toy Trumpet - R. Scott and Pavanne - M. Gould - Both on one musical record.
Marches recorded by The Goldman Band - Musical Records
Thunder and Lightning Polka - J. Strauss - Musical Record
Bozo Series of Albums
Bozo At The Circus
Bozo On The Sea
Bozo And The Birds
Bozo In His Rocket Ship
Bugs Bunny Series of Albums
A 12 inch vocal record of the Nutcracker Suite by Fred Waring
Bible Stories For Children
Hymns For Children
Bamby
The Night Before Christmas
Johnny Appleseed
Little Black Sambo
The Three Little Pigs
Margaret Obrien's Stories
The Little Red Hen
(List assembled by Mrs. Haskell Boyter)
NATIVITY SCENES
The practice of setting up a miniature manger scene at Christmas time is a very
old and a very beautiful one. St. Francis, the gentle saint of Assisi started the
custom to make the Christmas story more real to the people of his little village.
That was about the year 1200, and ever since then, it has been an integral part of
the festival season in the churches of Italy and France.
It seems natural to find some of the finest manger scenes in Oberammergau,
the home of the Passion Play. It was there, after long years of searching, that I
found carvings of Mary and Joseph and the Babe, and the gentle donkey, that are both
beautiful and convincing. They have become the heart of our Christmas decorations.
There is a mountain village in North Carolina, where wood carving has been
encouraged as a folk art. I am told that the wood carvers of Brasstown will make
the sheep and the oxen and the donkey, but hesitate to touch the holy figures. It
is Ben Hall, a gray-haired father with kind, deep-set eyes who carves the shepherds
and the Wise Men. And it is a young mountain mother who carves the Christ-child.
If you would make the Christmas story meaningful to your children, why not let
them create a manger scene. The experience of carving the figures, and reproducing
the manger will carve the story indelibly on their hearts. The results may be crude
by all standards of art, but not to the children if they have worked with sincerity
and a sense of dedication, like the carvers of Oberammergau and of Brasstown.
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HYMN OF THE MONTH
Either SILENT NIGHT or 0 COME ALL YE FAITHFUL, or both, because of their universal appeal.
The children will enjoy the story of the choirmaster in the little mountain
chapel who wrote Silent Night on Christmas Eve to be sung the next day. He never
dreamed that the whole world would one day be singing his little Christmas song.
0 Come All Ye Faithful is the oldest of all Christmas songs. The words were
first written in Latin (Adeste Fideles) many hundred years ago. No one knows either
who wrote the tune. Why it is called the Portugese Hymn is explained in a book that
was published in London in 1843. "This piece obtained its name from the accidental
circumstance of the Duke of Leeds who was a director of the Concert of Ancient Music
about the year 1785 having heard the hymn first performed at the Portugese Chapel,
and who, supposing it to be peculiar to the service in Portugal, introduced the
melody at the Ancient Concerts, giving it the title The Portugese Hymn, by which
appelation this very favorite and popular tune has ever since been distinguished."
FESTIVAL PROGRAMS
Thanksgiving Vesper Service - Glade Spring Boy Choir
(planned by the boys themselves)
Prelude
Call to worship - Psalm 100
Invocation, and the Lord's Prayer
Hymn - Come, ye thankful people, come .
Psalm of Thanksgiving - I Chronicles 16:1-15;23-26
We Gather Together to Ask the Lord's Blessing
Poem - Thankful
The Old Thanksgiving Basket
Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee
Announcements and Offering
The Boy of Today - The Man of Tomorrow
Hymn - 0 Beautiful for Spacious Skies
Benediction and Postiude
(note *** in the Mailbox)
read by Tommy McGlocklin
Choir Boys
Floyd Ballou
Milton Boyd
Choir Boys
Dr. Valiant
SECOND ANNUAL YOUTH CHOIR FESTIVAL OF THE COLUMBUS, OHIO PRESBYTERY
Anthems: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty - Davis - E. C. Schirmer 1572
If with all your hearts - E. C. Schirmer
1561 - Mendelssohn
0 Lord Most Merciful - Franck - E. C. Schirmer 1571
(all three numbers in Green Hill Jr. Choir and Duet Book)
E. C. Schirmer
Forward! be our Watchword - Kettring - Anthems for Jr. Choir - Westminster
Press
Hymns:
With happy voices singing
All people that on earth do dwell
Let us with a gladsome mind
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Participants:
Mr. Samuel Burkhard (festival director)
Mrs. Howard La Fever
Mrs. Carl T. Walters
*Mrs. William Peebles
Mrs. Joseph Hedges
*Mrs. Herrick Todd
*Rev. Herrick Todd (festival chairman)
(members of the Choristers' Guild)
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SAB MUSIC -- submitted by Mrs. Nat Smith, Lake Worth, Florida
Young People's Choir Book - compiled by Peery Chapel Choir Book - compiled by Peery - Presser
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Listen to the Lambs - Dett - Schirmer
The Holy City - Adams - Belwin
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The Cloister Rings with Praise - Shure - Belwin
Alleluia of the Bells (Easter) Marryott - H. W.
Gesu Bambino - Yon - J. Fischer
One World - O'Hara - Bourne
God Painted a Picture - Peter DeRose - Robbins
Old King Cole (two part mixed, fun song) Kirk -
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(Mrs. Smith has a High School Choir of 38 voices, and these are the
numbers the choir has especially enjoyed.)
Alberta Westby - Des Moines, Iowa. "Our Choir
Directors' Workshop has been going on now for five
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weeks. We meet on Mondays from 7:15 to 9:30, and
get so interested that we almost get locked in the
school house. Have 17 in the class, including several from nearby towns. Last Monday
I took envelopes and had them copy your address on the envelope - so I hope you get
several new Guild members. I also plan to stress Green Lake. One has already inquired about family accommodations there. If Des Moines doesn't know about the Guild,
it won't be because I've kept still about it."
Lois Oliver, Austin, Texas. "Being a piano teacher myself, you will surely be surprised when I say that as I became more and more involved in preparations and plans
for the children's choirs, I found myself more interested in that work than in plans
for my piano class."
*** Laura Arington, Glade Spring, Va. "In spite of a snowy blizzard, enough folks
came to our Vesper Service for the Boy Choir Thanksgiving, to give the enclosed
$12.11. If you think it wise we would like to see this go toward the dream - a
Children's Choir Center. If you think it wiser to use it for the Guild Letters, do
so. We at Glade Spring are hoping to see the dream come true, and are hoping that
all Guild Choirs will give the offering from one program each year until the Center
has been realized."
(The world's greatest achievers have been the world's greatest believers).
Ernestine Peebles, Delaware, Ohio. "Thought you would be interested in yesterday's
Junior Choir Festival program. About 250 youngsters participated in the service.
The numbers went well, and everybody seemed to have a fine time. Now the directors
are looking forward to a Workshop in the Spring.
Share your Christmas discoveries and successes with the other Guild members. Send
us a copy of your programs, and a report on your festivities.
We are a_-mg way from our goal of 1000 members. But we will be nearer if You get
One More New Member. If the Guild is Worthwhile, it is Worth Your While.
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WOULD YOU SET YOUR NAME AMONG THE STARS?
THEN WRITE IT LARGE UPON THE HEARTS OF CHILDREN.
THEY WILL REMEMBER:
HAVE YOU A VISION OF A FINER, HAPPIER WORLD?
TELL THE CHILDREN.
THEY WILL BUILD IT FOR YOU.
HAVE YOU A WORD OF HOPE FOR POOR, BLIND, STUMBLING HUMANKIND?
THEN GIVE IT NOT TO STUPID, BLUNDERING MEN.
GIVE IT TO CHILDREN.
IN THEIR CLEAR, UNTROUBLED MIND IT WILL REFLECT ITSELF A THOUSANDFOLD
AND SOME DAY PAINT ITSELF UPON THE MOUNTAIN TOPS.
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LE-TTE- ZS
January 1952
Vol. 3, No. 5
The frst of the year is inventory time. As associates of the Guild, you have
a right to know how we stand. The season started with a much smaller membership
than last year. The increase in the membership dues from one to two dollars was
undoubtedly responsible. But the publicity folders that were sent out, and especially your personal recommendations have steadily increased the membership. As of
January 1, we have 287 members, with the following distribution:
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ALA. - 4, ARK. - 1, CALIF. - 26, COLO. - 2, CONN.
IDAHO - 1, ILL. - 8, IND. - 8, IOWA - 8, KANSAS MD. - 1, MASS. - 8, MICH. - 12, MINN. - 10, MISS.
NEV. - 1, N. D. 1, N. C. - 21, N. J - 4, N. Y.
ORE. - 3, PA. - 20, S. C. - 2, TENN. - 3, TEXAS WASH. - 3, and W. VA. - 10.
- 5, FLA. - 5, GA. - 18,
1, KY. - 4, LA. - 1,
-3, MO. - 6, NEB. - 1,
- 14, OHIO - 13, OKLA. - 6,
12, VT. - 1, VA. - 18,
Our goal for this season is still a membership of 1000, with every state
represented. When one thinks of the several hundred thousand churches in this
country, it hardly seems ambitious to expect 1000 church musicians to be enough
interested in children's choirs to join the only association dedicated to the
children's choirs. Back issues of this season's Letters will be sent to all new
members. If every one of us becomes an agent for the Guild, we can reach our goal
within the first month of the new year. Let's do it.
Our EVENTUAL Goal, the Children's Choir Center, has captured the imagination of
many of you. But before that can materialize, we will first have to take care of six)
prosaic needs as a typewriter, and occasional secretarial help. I have confidence
that this will all come in due time. If gifts continue to arrive, we should be able
to complete the year without a deficit; - possibly even a small expansion fund, if
the summer schools have as big an attendance as expected.
December brought two special gifts: $15.00 from the Children's School of Music
Atlanta, Ga., Mrs. Haskell Boyter, director, and $5.00 from Corinne Monroe, children':
choir director at the First Baptist Church in Worcester, Mass. The spirit that
prompted these gifts, is one of the richest rewards your editor could hope to have.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT SEPT. - DEC., 1951
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Expenses to date:
Paper and Mimeographing four Letters
Printing 2000 Folders
Rubber. Stamp
Envelopes and Stamps
TOTAL TO DATE:
$182.90
34.53
2.25
70.24
$287.67
Income:
$574.00
287 Paid Memberships
Special Gifts
62.11
TOTAL TO DATE:
$636.11
Present surplus must cover:
Six Letters: January - June
Postage and Envelopes for Six Months
All Publicity for Summer Schools
All Correspondence and Mailing to non-members.
SUMMER SCHOOLS - (two of
Green Lake, Wisconsin
August 11-21
and
them this year)
Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Va.
July 28 - August 2
Which will you attend???
Your Church should pay the costs...
Because the new techniques and enthusiasm you acquire will enrich
the church...Because the church that pays, is more interested in
the results.
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A NEW YEAR COMMUNITY PROJECT
One of the rarest virtues is unselfishness, even among musicians. We will work with
others, if we are given a position of importance. But to work hard for a cause that
brings us no personal credit - that is a sure sign of Christian character, the very
object of our children's choir work. In every community represented by the Guild
members, there is need of such unselfish promoters, willing to put their shoulders to
a community wide training school, using as teachers local people who have been particularly successful in some field. A successful business man could teach organization
and administration. Many a school principal could give us musicians a new light on
dealing with children. Most public school music teachers are abreast of new methods
of music teaching, and would be willing to share their knowledge. Perhaps there is
a preacher who knows how to make Bible study interesting. It is not necessary to
import a leader: there is much good in Galilee, if we are willing to recognize it.
Why not attempt such a children's choir training school this Spring. Church school
teachers of all denominations have done it with marked success; certainly musicians
are as broad minded, and as willing to learn.
If there are only one or two other children's choirs in your area, informal club
meetings of the directors could serve the same purpose. One of the largest church
music organizations in the country started in just that way.
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MARGARET McKENDRICK SPEAKING:
Question: What would you do with a boy of thirteen who is musical, but just won't
pay attention?
Our Trouble Doctor's answer: A boy of thirteen is emotionally unstable. He is often
an adult in size, but lacks the experiences, the, knowledge and the calm judgment of
the grown-up. At this age, he often thinks he "knows it all", and is very restive at
any kind of restraint. He has a strong desire to be like someone he knows, and above
all, he will do nothing that he thinks is "sissy".
He is coming to the choir, I expect, because his parents MAKE him come, and they are failing to see that they are doing him harm, and
possibly building up a resentment toward music which will rob him of much enjoyment
later on. It is too bad they cannot be the choir director for a time to see what
such enforced attendance does to the director, the other members of the choir, and
the boy himself.
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What to do? I would have a friendly talk with the boy,
trying to make him see that you are "on his side". Ask him to tell you why he comes
to choir, since he does not get much from it because of lack of attention. If he
really dislikes coming, I would go to his home if possible, and explain that you
feel that his time and yours are being wasted by his continued attendance, and ask
his parents to let him drop choir for a year at least, or until he wishes to return
with a real desire to participate in its program.
I think it is usually a good thing to have the boy
present at this discussion, and to let him express himself too. Of course, you may
have talked it over with the mother before you discussed it with him present.
Whatever the cause, lack of interest, fear of being
called sissy, lack of self-confidence, a wish to assert his own desires instead of
obeying his mother, or just plain laziness, it isn't going to help him any to continue as a member of the group. I would try to make his mother feel that it is for
his own good that she should allow him to stop coming. If she wants him to continue,
ask her to visit so that she may see and understand just what you are up against.
Miss McKendrick put the question to one of her seventh grades, and shares some
of the answers with us and quite revealing they are:
Boy of 14. "When a boy is thirteen, his voice starts to change. The boy doesn't
like to sing because his voice goes up and down. When the boy gets out where no one
can hear him, he sings to himself. When a boy is in front of a crowd, he is afraid
to sing. He might have the voice of a man. That's why I think he pays no attention."
Boy of 13. "I think the teacher should try to find out why he is not paying
attention. Maybe the teacher could change her way of teaching, or something of the
kind."
Girl of 12, "If the boy doesn't pay attention maybe it is because he is growing
up, and doesn't like music any more. Maybe he has something to play with, and that is
why he doesn't pay attention. The choir director can't do anything about his growing
up, or not liking music. She can do something about his playing though."
Boy of 13. "I think the teacher should have a talk with him."
Girl of 13. "I think he doesn't pay attention because he thinks he knows all
there is to know about music. His teacher should not let him come to music until he
can pay attention.
Girl of 12. "If he doesn't pay attention, he must not be very interested in
music. The teacher should ask him if he wants to sing. If he doesn't, there is no
sense in wasting time on him."
Girl of 13. "I think the reason he doesn't pay attention is that he wants someone always paying attention to him. Also he is the kind that does not like to sit in
one place long."
Boy of 12. "He probably is musical, but isn't interested in the kind of music
they are doing, so he doesn't pay attention to it. There is nothing much the choir
leader can do except make him behave until they do what he likes."
Boy of 12. "Because he thinks it is cute. I think he does it to annoy the
teacher. The teacher should punish him by sending him to detention hall, and if that
doesn't work, take him out of the choir."
And finally, "this from a boy who knows". "A thirteen year old knows music but
is too lazy to sing, and pays no attention. No matter how many times he is gotten
after, he keeps this up until he is out of the choir - and wishes he was back in."
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REVIEW OF CHRISTMAS
Dr. Federal Whittlesey, Dallas, Texas, reports that he used mostly "tried and
proven" numbers.
Combination with other choirs
When sun had sunk - arr. Knight - G. Schirmer
children doing Gloria; two boys sing verses.
Behold that Star - Burleigh - Ricordi (taught from solo copy)
adults sing solo part; children the refrain
Birthday of a King - Neidlinger - G. Schirmer
children do refrains, and alleluias.
0 Holy Night - Adam
children join adults at "fall on your knees"
Girl Choir (11-14) and Young People (15-17)
Still grows the evening - Dickinson - Gray ... $0.16
Girl Choir and Boy Choir (10-14)
Sweet Marie and her Baby - Niles - G. Schirmer
Junior (8-10) and Carol (6-8)
Long ago and far away - Arr. from Our First Music Book - Birchard
"We are using the suggestion in the last Guild Letter, of stopping the procession
to sing two carols, and then proceeding."
Dick Helms of Kansas City made use of three cantatas.
The Wondrous Story - Kountz Witmark
Childe Jesus - Clokey •- Birchard
Ceremony of Carols - Britten - Boosey and Hawkes
George De Hart of Midland, Texas
-Unison
How bright appears the morning star - Nicolai, Bach - Anthems for Jr. Choir,
Westminster Press
The Christmas Candle - Bitgood - Gray
Prayer of the Norwegian Chii.d. - Kountz - G. Schirmer
See the Infant Softly Sleeping - Gretchaninoff, Bitgood - Jr. Choir Anthem Book Vol. V - Holler - Gray
SA...Sing Noel - O'Hara - Presser
SAB...Go Tell it on the Mountains - Lynn - Presser
In the Lonely Midnight - Blake - Presser
Alice Hewlett - Glendale, California
Story Hour Songs - (for 3 to 8 years of age) Holmes - Broadman Press, Nashville
Christmas Cradle Song - Moore - B. F. Wood Music Co...SSA
Carol of the Russian Childrcn - Treharne - G. Schirmer...SSA
Cradle Hymn - Young - Anthems for Jr. Choir, Book 2, Westminster Press
The Christmas Story - Goldsworthy - J. Fischer, Jr. choir and adults
Christmas by Candlelight - the Nativity Scene - Swift - Belwin...SA
Mrs. Gladys Neuenschwander, Berne, Ind., used a picture of her children's choir
on her Christmas card.
Madeline Ingram, Lynchburg, Va., held her twelfth annual Round the Tab39 Carol
Sing, with her five choirs.
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Howard Stampfli, reporting from Wheeling, W. Va. "This year we are inaugurating what is to be known as the Wheeling Community Christmas Celebration. All the
churches and schools are cooperating and from Dec. 10th on, we will have groups of
singers at various bus stops, and on the main streets singing carols. On the 21st,
we are going to rope off one whole city block, where the singers from the whole city
will congregate to sing carols, interspersed with the reading of the Christmas story,
and ending with the Hallelujah chorus. This is a big step for Wheeling, in that it
includes all denominations, faiths and creeds."
Do you know the Portfolio of Biblical Portraits titled "In Our Image" by Guy
Rowe, and published by Oxford University Press? It is a collection of magnificently
human portraits of Old Testament Characters. Hubert Taylor of Atlanta, Ga., has
used six of these portraits for a series of short musical services for the Church
Night suppers.
Corinne Monroe, Worcester, Mass., reports 80 children helping the Chancel and
Youth Choirs in the Candlelight service. Corinne's program grew the hard way, but
the number of participants indicates that for the director and the children both,
"choir is fun".
Dorothy Guy, Atlanta, Ga., used Kodachrome Transparancies in her Christmas
program for the Joel Chandler Harris P.T.A.
From Ernestine Peebles, Delaware, Ohio:
ROUND THE TABLE CAROL SERVICE
Wednesday, December 5, 1951
Usher In The
Christmas Season
By Attending
A Musical Treat
Given By The
Carol Choir
Chapel Choir
Chancel Choir
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Rev. Louis E. Campbell,
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The program will be given in the Church social room, and is for the entire
family and guests. A nursery will be provided for the very young.
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THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD
Do your children know the Twenty-third Psalm? This is a Basque shepherds literal
interpretation of this favorite Psalm.
"David and his ancestors knew sheep and their ways, and David has translated a
sheep's musings into simple words. The daily repetition of this Psalm fills the
sheep herder with reverence for his calling. It is our bulwark when the days are hot
or stormy; when the nights are dark; when wild animals surround our band. Many of its
lines are the statements of the simple requirements and actual duties of the Holy
Land shepherd, whether he lives today or followed the same calling 6000 years ago.
Phrase by phrase, it has a well-understood meaning for us.
(The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.) Sheep instinctively know that ere
they have been folded for the night, the shepherd has planned out their grazing for
the morrow. It may be that he will take them back over the same range; it may be
that he will go to a new grazing ground. They do not worry. His guidance has been
good in the past and they have faith in the future because they know he has their
well-being in view.
(He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.) Sheep graze from around 3:30 in
the morning until about ten. Then they lie down for 3 or 4 hours and rest. When they
are contentedly chewing their cuds, the shepherd knows they are putting on fat. Consequently the good shepherd starts his flocks out in the early hours on the rougher
herbage, moving on through the morning to the richer, sweeter grass, and finally coming with the band to a shady place for its forenoon rest in fine green pastures, best
grazing of the day. Sheep, while resting in such happy surroundings, feel contentment
(He leadeth me beside the still waters.) Every shepherd knows that sheep will
not drink gurgling water. There are many small springs high in the hills of the Holy
Land, whose waters run down the valleys only to evaporate in the desert sun. Although
the sheep need the water, they will not drink from these fast-flowing streams. The
shepherd must find a place where rocks or erosion have made a little pool, or else he
fashions with his hands a pocket sufficient to hold at least a bucketful.
(He restoreth my soul; He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's
sake.) Holy Land sheep exceed in herding instinct the Spanish Merino or the French
Rambouillet. Each takes his place in the grazing line in the morning and keeps the
same position throughout the day. Once, however, during the day, each sheep leaves
its place and goes to the shepherd. Whereupon the shepherd stretches out his hand,
as the sheep approaches with expectant eyes and mild little Baas. The shepherd rubs
its nose and ears, scratches its chin, whispers affectionately into its ears. The
sheep, meanwhile, rubs against his leg, or, if the shepherd is sitting down, nibbles
at his ear, and rubs its cheek against his face. After a few minutes of this communion with the master, the sheep returns to its place in the feeding line.
(Yea though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I shall fear no
evil. Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me:7- There is an actual Valley of the
Shadow of Death in Palestine, and every sheep herder from Spain to Dalmatia knows of
it. It is south of the Jericho road leading from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea, a-2,(1 is a
narrow defile through a mountain range. Climatic and grazing conditions LI.91u it necessary for the sheep to be moved thru this valley for seasonal feeding each year, The
valley is four and a half miles long. Its side walls are over 1500 feet
places, and it is only 10 or 12 feet wide at the bottom. Travel thru the va:le:Y is
dar,giou.71, becausc, its floor, badly eroded by cloudbursts, has gLlites 7 or
fet
deep. Actual footing on solid rock is so narrow, in many places that a rahe,,,q,
turn around, and it is an unwritten law of shepherds that flocks must go up the valley
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in the morning hours, and down toward the eventide, lest flocks meet in the defile.
Mules have not been able to make the trip for centuries, but sheep and goat herders
from earliest Old Testament times have maintained a passage for their stock. About
halfway thru the valley the walk crosses from one side to the other at a place where
the path is cut in two by an 8 foot gully. One section of the path is about 18
inches higher than the other; the sheep must jump across it. The shepherd stands at
this break and coaxes or forces the sheep to make the leap. If a sheep slips and
lands in the gully the shepherd's rod is brought into play. The old-style crook is
encircled around a large sheep's neck, or a small sheep's chest, and it is lifted to
safety. If a more modern narrow crook is used, the sheep is caught about the hoofs
and lifted up to the walk. Many wild dogs lurk in the shadows of the valley, looking for prey. After a band of sheep has entered the defile, the leader may come upon
such a dog. Unable to retreat, the leader baas a warning. The shepherd, skilled in
throwing his staff, hurls it at the dog, and knocks the animal into the washed-out
gully where it is easily killed. Thus the sheep have learned to fear no evil, even
in the Valley of the Shadow of Death, for their master is there to aid them and protect them from harm.
(Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies.) David's
meaning is a simple one when conditions on the Holy Land sheep ranges are known.
Poisonous plants abound which are fatal to grazing animals. Each Spring the shepherd
must be constantly alert. When he finds the plants, he takes his mattock and goes on
ahead of the flock, grubbing out every stock and root he can see. As he digs uT) the
stocks, he lays them on little stone pyres, some of which were built by shepherds
in Old Testament days, and by the morrow they are dry enough to burn. In the me:;,ntime, the sheep are led into the newly prepared pasture, which is now free from poisonous plants, and in the presence of their deadly plant enemies, they eat in peace.
(Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.) At every sheepfold there
is a big earthen bowl of olive oil and a large stone jar of water. As the sheep come
in for the night, they are led to a gate. The shepherd lays his rod across the top of
the gateway just higher than the backs of the sheep. As each sheep passes in single
file, he quickly examines it for briers in the ears, snags in the cheek, or weeping of
the eyes from dust or scratches. When such conditions are found, he drops the rod
across the sheep's back and it steps out of line. Each sheep's wounds are carefu:ly
cleaned. Then the shepherd dips his hand into the olive oil and anoints the in.ury.
A large cup is dipped into the jar of water, kept cool by evaporation in the ungLazc-Jd
pottery, and it is brought out - never half full but always overflowing. The shoep
will dip its nose into the clear water to the eyes, if fevered, and drink untl.:1_ fully
refreshed. When all the sheep are at rest, the shepherd lays his staff on the ground
within reach in case it is needed for protection of the flock during the niFht, vr.aps
himself in his heavy woolen robe and lies down across the gateway, fE,cing the :,t1pp,
for his night's repose. So, after all the care and protection the shi.erd h r gjven
it, a sheep may well soliloquize in the twilight, as translated into :io:'ds l v David:
(Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall
dwell in the house of the Lord forever.) From Readers Digest, June 1S,)0.
There are two settings of the Twenty-third Psalm, that can be used as the Eymn of the
Month. One is a chant by Joseph Barnby found in the Hymnal for Boys an'',
- Appleton Century Co., and the other, a metrical version is to the tune Sb
in Songs of Praise, Oxford University Press, under the title "The King oi i_ovo my
Shepherd is."
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NEW YEAR'S REFO=IONS
I will do my part to organize a community t:Linfng school.
I will send copies of all my special progr,71-:p' tc: 204 N. Second St., Memphis, Tenn.,
and list publisher, number, voice arrangement and price.
I will get my church to send me to one of the Summer Schools.
I will be a Participating member of the Guild, not a Passive one.
I will help to reach the membership goal of 1000.
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BOY
CHOIRS ... The number of requests for information on boy choir training indicates
a rather general impression that a boy's voice must be trained differently from a girl's. This is entirely a mistaken impression. The manner of training in a professional boy choir is naturally not the same as that in a volunteer
children's choir. But good vocal training is the same for girls and for boys with
unchanged voices. Any one who can train a children's choir to sing with good tone,
can achieve the same vocal results with a choir of boys.
There is no rule of voice training that can be applied to the situation like a
poultice, with guaranteed results. The only possible way to get the greatest beauty
out of the boy voice, is to study the child voice in recordings, concerts, school
choruses, rehearsals, books on boy choir training, to keep the ears keenly alert,
and so to develop discrimination in the quality, of the boy voice.
Father Finn, who spent his life in the tradition of the professional boy choir, had
very decided convictions on voice training, and created beautiful tone with his
Paulist Choir. Herbert Hoffman, founder of the Columbus Boy Choir produces exceptionally beautiful tone with his choir. He was educated as a director of adult
choirs, and went into boy choir work more or less by chance. The approach of these
two men is entirely different. There is no one-and-only method, guaranteed to produce results. But there is a rule:- to produce good tone, the leader must be sensitive to vocal variations, and intelligent.
With most of us, the question is not so much how to get tone, as how to interest and
hold enough boys. Apparently some are finding the answer, because an increasing
number of our members are reporting a boy choir as a part of their choral organization. It would be good to hear from them how they manage to hold a boy choir.
They would undoubtedly credit their success to a variety of circumstances, but I am
quite certain that they are all enthusiastic, well-balanced, open-minded, and positive but patient people. The boys probably treat them with a mixture of affectionate
disrespect.
For those who have both the choir, and the personality, but want some suggestions for
improving their work, there are two books that may be helpful ... Training the Boy
Chorister - T. Tertius Noble - G. Schirmer - $.50 ... Boy Choirs - Sidney Nicholson
(Festival Booklet) - Parerson Publication Ltd. - 35 W. 32nd St., N. Y.
The chapter on Vocal Training in The Successful Children's Choir - Jacobs - (H. T.
FitzSimons Co., 615 N. La Salle St., Chicago 10, Ill.) also suggests some simple and
practical vocal methods.
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BOOK
FOR
BOYS ... If boys avoid the choir because they think it is not manly to be a singer,
,ive them a chance to read a little book that traces in eight episodes,
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eight huhAred years of boy choir history. Let me quote from the author's introduction: "The idea of this story began in an attempt to interest choirboys in the long
history that lies behind their office. But it soon became evident that a mere history book, though it might contain many interesting facts, would fail in its appeal
to those for whom it was specially intended, and that a more romantic treatment
might serve an even wider purpose by interesting other boys in England's oldest
youth movement, and one that may fairly be regarded as a form of national service,
seeing that it has provided the source and inspiration as well as the means of preserving all that is most distinctive in our national music."
So while there is no conscious violation of historical accuracy, the author must
plead guilty to a good deal of embroidery in the various adventures met with by his
hero: for the purpose is to give an impression of what it was like, from the boy's
point of view, to be a chorister in days gone by. If the description of certain of
his experiences should prove to be somewhat lurid it must be remembered that life
for the chorister has not always been a bed of roses; indeed without such realism no
true picture could have been drawn, for if we are certain of anything it is that he
was taught to endure hardships in a rough school.
In Peter the aim has 14410 to depict the average chorister, who has probably been much
the same all through the ages: keen, efficient, imaginative, neither a saint nor a
villain, neither a genius nor a fool; no prig, but just a natural boy who loves his
job and is proud to be one of the great company of singers.
The book is: Peter, the Boy Chorister by Nicholson, published by MacMillan, and the
price is only $1.00.
In selecting music for the boy choir, a balanced diet would include:
Fun songs: such as rounds, cowboy songs, etc.
Sturdy, enduring hymns: Welsh tunes are particularly vigorous and singable.
Service music and chants: in the back of all fine hymnals. Methodist hymnal
has very inclusive service section.
Classics: such as "If with all your hearts ye truly seek Him" (from Elijah)
Anthems: that avoid the trite, commonplace or over-sweet.
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TEN ANTHEMS FOR THE BOY CHOIR ...
Let all the world in every corner sing - Chapman - Birchard - .15
for boys in unison and men in unison - a brilliant number.
Lead me, Lord - Wesley - Gray original key is rather low, otherwise, good.
If with all your hearts - Mendelssohn - G. Schirmer.
Let all things now living - Davis - E. C. Schirmer unison with descant.
Be Thou my vision - Gillette - Kjos.
America (from the symphony, America) - Bloch - Birchard.
All glory, laud, and honor - Bach - Oxford University Press.
Awake my soul, and with the sun - Tallis - FitzSimons.
All things divine - Mueller - Edwin Morris, 1619 Broadway, N. Y.
The world itself is blithe and gay - Marryott - H. W. Gray.
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MAKE REHEARSALS COUNT
Start on the level of the children ...
Concentrate on one thing at a time ...
Make explanations clear and simple ...
Start where you left off at the last rehearsal.
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IT'S TIME TO THINK OF EASTER MUSIC ...
The First Easter - Richter - Presser - .75 The Easter story with a reader, familiar music and pantomime or slides.
The world itself is blithe and gay - Marryott Gray.
This glad Easter Day - Dickinson - Gray.,
Song for Easter - Eichorn - Gray.
Legend - Tschaikowsky - Kjos.
All glory laud and honor - Gillette - Kjos
children with adult choir.
Alleluia, Christ is risen - Gillette - Kjos
children and adults, fine effect with simple means.
Alleluia - Perry - Presser very simple.
One early Easter morning - Marryott - Ditson simple and effective.
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BRIGHT IDEAS ...
Jean Maxwell has a photo-mural of her children's choir on the main wall of her new
choir room, in Meridian, Mississippi.
Louise Durham teaches her Primary children to pray by offering a simple and timely
prayer in the worship service, and having the children repeat it after her phrase by
phrase.
Kaye Sickbert has started a children's choir at her husband's airbase. When she left
California, she took out a Choristers' Guild membership for her successor, and now
writes, "I hope to make this choir a member soon."
From Edwin Karhu's Choir paper, and I agree: ... "I am the mother of one of these
'Cherubs' but believe me, he fits Webster's definition of a cherub in only one particular - he is a 'child' - but by no stretch of the imagination is he an 'Angel'.
In fact, if he and the rest of the children underst'od the connotation of the term,
I'm sure they'd do their best to disprove the epithet. We dubbed the choir 'Cherub'
to connote an age group. There must be some more fitting name for this gang. Won't
someone relieve them of such a misnomer? We would like to declare this an open contest to all comers. Please give our little imps (pardon me, I mean cherubs) a new
name for their choir. No box tops or wrappers needed; just send your contribution
to the 'Voice of the Choir'."
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PINS ... Our original supply of Choristers pins is almost exhausted. If you plan to
award any this summer, get your order in by April 30, since the manufacturerE
will need time to make up a new supply. Allow us a month too, to set pearls and attach guards.
Two years ago, when Choristers Pins were first introduced, the following point system
was suggested for the awarding of pins. The system is based on at least a nine month:
season of regular weekly rehearsals.
75 credits ... for 100% attendance at rehearsals and performances
50 credits ... for 85% attendance at rehearsals and performances
25 credits ... for excellent deportment ...
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... for 100% attendance at church school ...
... for 85% attendance at church school
... for bringing a new member ...
* credit given only if new member earns 75 credits.
* no more than 15 credits granted in any one year.
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To earn a pin, a chorister must earn 100 credits for the year. The virtue of this
system is that it is impossible to earn a pin without being regular, and it is
impossible to earn one by attendance alone.
For each additional year with 100 credits, a pearl is set in the pin. For the first
year of the intermediate or high school choir, a guard is awarded, and for each additional year with 100 credits in that choir, a pearl is set in the guard. Awards
should be made at the close of the choir season, in a public ceremony.
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FESTIVALS ... Children's Choir Festivals are increasing in number. Some are worth
the effort, and some not. As Eric DeLamarter said of the summer program of the
Chicago Symphony at Ravinia, "Some are concerts, and some-er not." To a great extent, it is the degree of preliminary planning that determines the value of a festival. A fine festival is impossible without a great deal of preliminary work. Here
are a few lessons learned from the multiple festivals we held in Los Angeles a few
years ago:
Limit the age range. (4th grade thru Jr. Hi.) the mass rehearsal is too difficult otherwise.
Contact every director in the area, outline the plan, and set a date for a
meeting of the directors.
At this meeting: select the music to be used; keep it simple.
(be ready with several positive suggestions)
set the time and place for the festival
decide on the director, and any special features
set date for next meeting
At second meeting: (at same place where festival is to be)
get acquainted with robing plan and place
appoint a robing room for each choir
go thru the music, with the festival director if possible
pass out instruction sheet for the festival
directions for participating choirs, directors
and ministers
get exact number of children in each choir
set processional and seating plan.
Send out good uniform publicity to all the churches for their church papers
Shortly before the festival, send out a letter of final instructions
stress promptness, and
careful attention to arrangements
Consider the advisability of a reserved section for parents, with tickets that
can be used year after year.
Hold a meeting of directors shortly after the festival, to
evaluate the festival, and
suggest improvements.
For a Spring festival, the music should be in rehearsal in the Fall.
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WE'RE GROWING ... From Jan. 1 to date (Jan. 20), we have gained 21 new members from
Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota,
Mississippi, New York, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Virginia, Washington, D. C., West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
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Nine states are still not represented. Can you help to bring them in? They are:
Arizona, Delaware, Maine, Montana, New Mexico, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South
Dakota and Utah. Let's have them on our roster before the next Letter comes out.
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SECULAR MATERIAL ... The recent requests for secular music came just at the right
time, because I have been looking for music to use with a new grammar school choir
I am just organizing. The children come from definitely underprivileged homes and
have no musical background whatever. There will be about 15 boys and 15 girls from
the 4th to the 6th grades. In selecting the music there were three considerations:
(1) the music must be worthy of public performance; (2) it must be obvious enough to
interest these children; (3) it must be comparatively easy to learn.
Accordingly, I am going to experiment with the following numbers:
Songs of the Hills and Plains - Wilson - Hall and McCreary
Good-bye 01' Paint - page 18
Home on the Range - page 22
Red River Valley - page 45
Night Herding Song - page 47
Galaxy Junior Chorus Book - Davis - Galaxy
The Deaf Old Woman
Turkey in the Straw
Old Folks at Home
To Mary in the Garden (carol)
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Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes - Crist - Carl Fischer seven short amusing songs in Chinese style
As the children develop vocal discipline, I expect to add some of the simple
classic arias such as: Where'er you walk - Handel - E. C. Schirmer
Nymphs and Shepherds - Purcell - E. C. Schirmer
Sound the Trumpet - Purcell - E. C. Schirmer - (2 part) * * *
SUMMER SCHOOLS ... Are you coming? Of course you are. Register early. The Lynchburg school by popular request is to be ten days, instead of the six days announced
in the last letter.
JULY 28 - AUGUST 6 ... Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Virginia ...
AUGUST 11 - 21 ... American Baptist Assembly, Green Lake, Wisconsin
YOU CAN COUNT ON A GRAND FACULTY AND A GRAND TIME.
WHO HAS A QUESTION FOR MARGARET KENDRICK TO ANSWER??? THIS IS A
WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO GET EXPERIENCED ADVICE WITHOUT COST ...
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Vol. 3, No. 7
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DO IT WELL ... Teaching is becoming increasingly simple, and at the same time increasingly complex, for the emphasis is changing from the teaching of assorted
specific facts, to the teaching of children. Facts to be learned are not isolated
in a vacuum of experience, but childhood experiences are made the anchor to which
necessary knowledge is fastened. Intelligent choir directors are adopting the same
techniques with their choirs. Children learn best when they are most interested,
and they are most interested when all their resources are brought to focus upon a
given project. Learning becomes enjoyable when it provides an opportunity to do,
to feel, to see, to hear, to create as well as to sing.
Such an approach demands a great deal more time and thought in preparation, but the
response is worth it. The old addage "When a task is once begun, never leave it
till it's done; be the labor great or small, do it well or not at all" may be oldfashioned philosophy, but it still holds true for our day. We are helping to build
a new world. It can't be done in our off hours.
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We continue to grow. February brought 43 new members, and we have only a few
of the back issues of the Letters left. If we have another hundred copies of each
made, will you help us get a hundred new members? We are a long way from our goal
of 1000 members, but if every one of us would pledge himself to get three new members, we would have more than a thousand. Let's try.
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EVALUATION
A group of choir directors and public school music teachers in Atlanta were asked to
list the values of music experience, for which they had personal the proof of personal
experience. The returns are thought provoking, and should encourage a more careful
evaluation of the sort of experience our choir provides.
"A child that seemed to be a misfit mentally and socially was found to have musical
talent. Succeeding in music, he became interested in achievement in the fields that
seemed impossible before."
"In working with palsy children, music has aroused an interest to do things they
haven't tried before, and has developed coordination."
"A school somewhat drab in outlook: music changed entire spirit of school and of
student body."
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"Study of music introduces a child to all arts, to history, to religion, and to
all the better things of life."
"I can walk into a room full of chattering children and begin to sing a song in a
very soft voice. Immediately the atmosphere clears, and the children are singing
with me. Peace is restored."
"I have noticed that the children who have an opportunity to develop an interest
in music become happier, and over a period of time, it has given them greater
interest in doing other things well."
"A problem boy, after joining a boy choir, became better adjusted. By the end of
the year his entire attitude had changed."
"What I have seen music do! Interest a boy who isn't interested in much else; give
many children the great privilege of making their parents come to hear beautiful
music; give some children a chance to shine, that they would never have otherwise:
bind a grade together that was a troublesome class. This and much more."
"I know that music can bring joy and fun to a child in school - many times the only
joy a poor home-neglected child can really experience with a true sense of accomplishment."
"I've never seen a group singing under a good leader that did not look happier than
the average audience under a speaker."
"Music correlates the spiritual ideas with the practical so that a child who tends
to be shy has a way of expressing his thoughts and aims thru music. Children active
in extra curricular organizations keep away from the corner drug store crowd."
"A high school boy I know was material for the chain-gang until he started singing.
His voice has earned his own self-respect as well as that of his fellows."
"It has restored calm and quiet, harmony and peace in a room of noisy, excited
children."
"Physical well-being from correct posture and breathing: discipline to self and
constituted authority: mental alertness and sensitivity: give and take of ensemble
work: use and control of emotions: pride of accomplishment and independence of
thought and action."
"Opportunity for release of the emotional states, desires, ideas that underlie words
but cannot be expressed by them alone: provides sense of belonging - here I rise
above myself, this is my contribution: provides avenue for developing craftsmanship - growing sense of achievement: sense of continuity, connection with the past
and the future."
WHAT INFLUENCE DO YOU INTEND YOUR CHOIR TO HAVE ON THE CHILDREN?
WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ACHIEVE THOSE RESULTS?
ARE YOU CONSISTENT AND INTELLIGENT IN YOUR EFFORTS?
IS YOUR OWN PERSONALITY GROWING THROUGH YOUR CHOIR WORK?
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SPECIAL SERVICES
In "Child Guidance", the teachers' manual for the Methodist Church, some months ago,
there was an article suggesting the history of church music as a special Junior
Department program. Starting with a Hebrew melody (most good hymnals have at least
one or two), and proceeding with a Gregorian melody, a Bach chorale, a Schotch psalmtune, and a contemporary hymn, the whole program could be taken from the hymnal. A
commentary on each period by one of the choir children would add to the interest.
Why not see how interesting a service you can create from the hymnal?
Dick Helms, Kansas City, presented his choir in a special service as the final session of an interdenominational church music study. The call to worship, solo,
anthems, the entire worship service came from the hymnal. Few of us are conscious
of the resources of the hymnal.
The Twenty-third Psalm has inspired so much good music, that it too could well be the
theme of a choral service. Appropriate to the text are:
Brother James' Air - Oxford University Press No. 1139 unison
*The Shepherd - Brook - Oxford University Press No. 149 2 pt. (or unison)
The Lamb - Protheroe FitzSimons No. 5002 2 pt. (or unison)
*A Song of Innocence - Davies - Novell() (sheet music) - same text as "The Lamb"
*Flocks in Pastures Green Abiding - Bach - Oxford University Press )SC 1631 unison
*Used in the Youth Choir Festival in Dallas, Texas, March 2.
Highland Park Methodist Church - Federal Lee Whittlesey
For the subject: "Herein is God revealed to man", Dr. Whittlesey programmed suitable
music for: through Worship; through History; through the Lives of Men; through
Nature; through the Bible; through Jesus Christ.
Two other fine themes for a Choral Service: The Beatitudes - The Life of Christ
--- MUSICAL FINDS --Song-Dramas from the Old Testament - Pascal and Marks - Witmark and Sons - $0.60.
David and Goliath
Jonah and the Whale
Noah's Ark
Daniel in the Lions' Den
Unsophisticated simplicity suggestive of folk-art...Should provide an interesting and
enriching experience for both teacher and children. Can be used as a class room
project or for public performance. Obtainable on nonbreakable Columbia Records (78 rpm) - Nos. MJV-100 and MJV-101.
Song Wings Books I and II (Youth Music Series) - Birchard
These two books are the pot-of-gold-at-the-foot-of-the-rainbow for the Primary Choir.
Enough religious, educational, and special interest songs to provide years of study
and fun. In my estimation, they are practically perfect.
Follow the Music - Coit and Bampton - Birchard
A collection of easy musical games for little children.
Theory is Fun - Castelli - Boston Music Co. - $0.60.
A new approach; entertaining, educational; fine for the Choir Notebook.
Rounds and Canons - Wilson - Hall McCreary
For experience in part singing. A wide variety of types from fun songs to
fifteenth century classics. Some are good campfire numbers; others of concert
calibre. Well worth the 60O.
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To comply with the frequent request for secular numbers for children's voices, I
have asked Dorothy Guy, Atlanta, Ga., to list the numbers in her school library that
she found most interesting and rewarding. In the variety of numbers listed below,
there should be something appropriate for almost any occasion.
Unison
An Open Secret (A Spring Song) - Woodman - G. Schirmer (solo copy)
I hear a thrush at eve - Cadman - White Smith Music Publishing Company - 7637
Mighty Lak A Rose - Nevin - G. Schirmer (solo copy)
Morning - Oley Speaks - G. Schirmer - 7656
Trees - Rasbach - G. Schirmer (solo copy)
Unison with Descant
Billy Boy - Dunhill - Carl Fischer ARD 39
Drink to me only with Thine Eyes - Folk Song - Edward Arnold and Company D13
John Peel - Arr. Dunhill - Edward Arnold Co. D.16
Old King Cole - Arr. Dunhill - Ed. Arnold Co. ARD 3
The Mermaid - Arr. Dunhill - Edw. Arnold Co. D14
Ho, Mr. Piper - Curran - G. Schirmer 9726
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Allah's Holiday - Friml-Riegger - G. Schirmer 7461
A Brown Bird Singing - Haydn Wood - Chappell Harms - 4050
Blow Soft Winds - Gluck-DeBrant - Carl Fischer CM6169
Carmencita - Mexican - Kjos 1206
Chiapenecas - arr. Krone - Kjos 1201
Chimes of Spring - Lincke - Edw. Marks Co. - 602
Come to the Fair - Easthope - Enoch and Sons 2105
Cloud Shadows - Rogers - G. Schirmer 9728
Czecho-Slovakian Dance Song - B. F. Wood Co. 330
Dancing in the Snow - Ukrainian - Boston Music Co. 1579
Dark Eyes - Russian - B. F. Wood 312
Dear Land of Home (Finlandia) Sibelius - B. F. Wood 256
Donkey Serenade - Friml-Stothart - G. Schirmer 9593
I Know A Bank - Horn - G. Schirmer 4523
Mammy's Little Kinky-Headed Boy - Trinkans - Witmark 2203
0 Lovely Night - Praetorius - B. F. Wood 377
On Wings of Music - Mendelssohn - Birchard 270
Night on the Water - Central American Folk Song - Willis 6032
Piping Tim of Galway - Irish Folk Song - Wick Music Publishing Company, Minneapolis 23e
Pops Goes the Weasel - Schaffer - Witmark 2699
The Swallow - Serradel - Kjos 1215
Star Lullaby - Arr. Treharne - Boston Music Co. 6287
Stars and Stripes Forever - Sousa - John Church Co. 35233
Sundown (Londonderry Air) Arr. Wilson - Lorenz 5050
The Sandman - Brahms - J. Fischer 4032
The Big Brown Bear - Mana-Zucca - G. Schirmer 7621
Turn Ye to Me - Scotch Folk Song - Boston Music Co. 1671
Lullaby (Berceuse from Jocelyn) Godard - Kay and Kay Music Co. 315
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America, the Beautiful - Ward-Barton - Clayton Summy 4106
Cindy - American Folk Song - Witmark 2W3189 (difficult)
0 Lovely Night - Praetorius - H. W. Gray 608
La Jesucita - Mexican - Birchard 1515
The Blue Tail Fly - Arr. Childe - Kjos 6037
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AMONG OUR MEMBERS
Mrs. Coralie Sutherland, Pascagoula, Miss.
"Our choirs recently sponsored the installation of our Hammond organ, and since
October, the children have raised over a thousand dollars for this project, mostly by
concerts, selling Christmas cards, donations, and hard work."
Alice Hewlitt, Glendale, Calif.
She persuaded four of her choir-mothers to become members of the Guild, to keep
in touch with all the fine things happening in children's choirs. Welcome, Choirmothers. We hope you will be the first of many to join us. Like the old song, "The
more we work together, the happier we'll be".
Stanley De Fries, Topeka, Kansas.
He builds success out of failure. The children's choir festival planned for
March had to be cancelled because of a conflict in the auditorium schedule. Now he
plans to carry thru the plan in the Fall and writes, "The Council of Churches would
like to sponsor the festival in the Fall, and the Kiwanis club will support it too
through its 'Boys and Girls Work Committee'." The enthusiasm is growing, not waning.
Barbara Tuttle, Elizabeth, New Jersey
Barbara sent us five dollars out of the blue, and asked that we send the Choristers' Letters to a friend.
Mrs. Latta Johnston, Columbia, S. C., gave us a real surprise. She too sent a check
for five dollars, and she has had no previous connection with the Guild.
Dorothy Guy, Atlanta, Ga.
Dorothy Guy is president of a school music teachers' club. She was responsible
for seven school choirs taking part in the children's chorus of the Atlanta Seminar
on Church Music, and arranged a luncheon meeting, bringing together the association
of choir directors, (whose principal interest is church choirs), and the public school
music teachers. Atlanta is progressive musically largely because of the vision of
such leaders.
Hubert Taylor, Atlanta, Ga.
Hubert has just finished his seventh Church Music Institute. Starting from
nothing, he has built the institute to the place where it is outgrowing its quarters.
Walter Hewitt came from as far away as Maplewood, N. J., to attend. Incidentally,
he became a member of the Guild, too.
Ernestine Peebles, Delaware, Ohio.
A front page article, with a picture, features Ernestine's Choir Babysitters.
"So That Others May Sing" is the caption, and the very human story is about a group
of women who take care of children every week, so that the parents can attend rehearsals regularly. They, too, are contributing to an effective music ministry.
There is more than one way to serve.
Madeline Ingram, Lynchburg, Va.
Madeline is going to make sure that the Lynchburg Summer School is a success. Not
only is she teaching the course in Music and Materials, but has induced the Chamber of
Commerce to take us on a tour of the city, has invited us to a reception to be given
by the Lynchburg chapter, and has offered her summer home for a picnic.
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GENERAL PLAN FOR THE CHILDREN'S CHOIR SUMMER SCHOOLS
DAILY CLASSES IN:
Music Education in the Choir
The Choir and Religious Education
Choir Organization, and Vocal Training
Music and Materials for the Choir
Understanding Children
Demonstration Rehearsal with Local Choir
How to Make the Most of the Volunteer Choir
(for those who have both children's and adult choir)
AT LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA: JULY 28 - AUGUST 6
An inclusive fee of $50.00, payable to the Choristers' Guild, covers all
expenses: tuition, board and room, linens, and all campus fees.
Added Attraction: An enthusiastic Choristers Guild chapter, already planning picnics, and sightseeing tours to some of the many famous places near
Lynchburg.
AT GREEN LAKE, WISCONSIN: AUGUST 11 - 21
Tuition, $15.00. Board and room (Abbey area), from $4.00 to $4.50 a day.
All payable to the Baptist Assembly, Green Lake, Wisconsin.
Added Attraction: Margaret Palmer Fisk conducting a daily workshop in the
rhythmic interpretation of sacred music and poetry.
PLAN NOW TO ATTEND ONE OF THE TWO SCHOOLS.
Send us an envelope addressed to your pastor, and 12 cents in stamps,
and we will write to him, suggesting that the church pay your expenses
for the summer school.
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Vol. 3, No. 8
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
We are approaching the end of the third year of the Guild's existence. What is to
happen next year depends on you. If you believe in the value of this organization,
will you please send in your membership renewal NOW. Not tomorrow or next week but Now. It will be much easier to start the new season with an established membership.
Our chief point of contact is the Letters. We want them to meet your needs. You
can help make them more effective by listing the subjects you would like to have discussed.
I must express my gratitude for the way in which you have spread the reputation
of the Guild. Scarcely a day went by this winter without a letter from someone who
had heard about the Guild and wanted to become a member. All available copies of this
season's Letters have been sent out. If you have opportunity to tell others about the
Guild, please urge them to send in their memberships now for next season.
A further project we are considering is a Choristers' Guild Handbook, including
the kind of information to which a director needs ready access. Would you be interested in a Handbook, and if so, what information do you think it should include.
There is no doubt that the Guild will continue to grow, but as it grows we will
have to find some additional financing. Until the present, I have been doing the
addressing, folding, bookkeeping, filing, planning, and the increasing correspondence
alone. It has reached the point where it takes almost all my time. Membership fees
just cover mimeographing and postage costs. A part time assistant will be an additional expense. How should it be financed? Special musical services for the benefit
of the Guild? Church memberships at $10.00 a year? Outright gifts from interested
people? Will you give the question some serious consideration, and record your
opinions on the enclosed form?
But the greatest evidence of your interest will be your 1952-53 membership By Return Mail.
At a gathering of very distinguished people, the subject of religion was being
discussed. Charles Lamb intervened and said, "Gentlemen, if Plato or Socrates or
Shakespeare or Napoleon were to enter this room, we would all rise; but if Jesus
Christ were to enter, we all would kneel."
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AFTER EASTER PROJECTS
Because a number of letters recently have asked about ways to keep the choir interested and active after Easter, I sent out a questionnaire to a cross section of our
members, asking them about their after-Easter projects, their summer program, their
favorite anthems, and their suggestion for a good Mothers' Day anthem.
We are grateful for the prompt response to the questionnaire, and record the
projects and the Mothers' Day suggestions in this issue.
In the May Letter, we will tabulate the favorite anthems of our representative
directors.
Mrs. Fredrickson, Tuscola Street Methodist Church, Saginaw, Michigan. . ."The girls
in the choir learn numbers to sing for the Mother-Daughter Banquet. The choir plans
for Mothers' Day, and also for Children's Day in the church school. We will have
several parties in June, to welcome those who are eight into the Junior Choir, and
those who are 12 into the Youth Choir."
Summer project: Our Methodist Church has a fine Junior Camp which we encourage the
children to attend. They also have vacation church school. If child has regular
attendance in church school and choir, $10.00 of his fee to Junior Camp is paid by
the church.
Mrs. Vivian Johnson, Elim Evangelical Lutheran, Duluth, Minnesoto. . ."I usually take
pictures of the Junior Choirs after Easter. They love to be along for that. Last
year we gave a pageant-cantata, based on the life of Christ. I've also recorded each
voice individually, some years."
Mrs. Cecil Stewart, First Methodist, Alliance, Ohio. . ."We work toward Children's
Day when the children take the morning service all by themselves, singing all responses, etc."
Dr. Austin Lovelace, First Presbyterian Church, Greensboro, N. C. . .Summer - "We
have a vacation Bible school at which music is given a prominent part, including
time for fun songs, rounds, as well as study of hymns."
Dr. Federal Lee Whittlesey, Highland Park Methodist Church, Dallas, Texas. .
"Refresh the choirs on numbers used through the year, then present a program,
'Through the Year with the youth Choirs', for another church. Broadcasts. Surprise trip, with a picnic and a program at some philanthropic institution."
Mr. Edward Johe, First Congregational Church, Columbus, Ohio. . ."Have invited the
Junior Choir of the First Presbyterian Church of Delaware, Ohio (Ernestine Peebles)
to be our guests for 1. Rehearsal 2. Luncheon 3. Period of recreation or program
demonstration of recorders."
Summer - "Arrange a period in which to meet choir members with special interests,
abilities or needs, and prospective members, in a 'summer choir school'! This is
a fine time to help and encourage members. The time and program can be more leisurely. Briefly, it is a special interest class which allows the director time to
discover and aid individual needs."
Marvin Reecher, Boston Avenue Methodist Church, Tulsa, Oklahoma. . ,Summer - "Vacation Vocal Camp - Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for the month of June."
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Mary Louise Shore, George Washington Lee Memorial Presbyterian Church, WinstonSalem, N. C. . ."This year we are concentrating on music for the Children's Choir
Festival planned for the final Sunday of Music Week, and sponsored by the local
AGO chapter."
Mr. John Gabbert, Redford Avenue Presbyterian Church, Detroit, Michigan. . ."Hymn
Festival - combined choirs - using some of the material the choir has used throughout the year."
Ruth Rudebock, First Presbyterian Church, Baldwin, Long Island, N. Y. . ."Last year
we had a 7 weeks study of the organ, using the first 10 or 15 minutes' of each rehearsal. Introduction (with movie, 'The Singing Pipes' from the Canadian Film
Service, N. Y. C., $3.00 - a little old for them, might be better as a conclusion,
but it worked fine). 2. Pipes 3. Manuals 4. Pedals 5. Stops 6. Registration
7. Chimes and Carillons. We made a huge chart that we added pictures and information to as we went along. After week 4, each choir member was entitled to a 2 hour
organ lesson if he wanted it. Most of them did and enjoyed it tremendously (I have
100 kids!). I had planned this year to do a similar project on the hymnal, studying
its parts, and making a miniature hymnal. I haven't worked it out yet though, and
so many have asked about organ lessons - I may repeat the organ one."
Mr. Lyman Bunnell, Immanuel Congregational Church, Hartford, Conn. . ."Usually sing
in Junior Choir Festival in May. Always give an operetta in May or June. Have used
Birchard's simplified 'Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance, Mikado', also 'King Puddinhead'. In June, the music for Children's Day is a special project. We always have
a choir picnic when school is out. The Junior Boys' Choir has an overnight camp
trip."
Mrs. Harlan S. Kirk, Methodist Church, Appleton, Wis. . ."Hymn worship service in
May, in which we use the hymns, scriptures and anthems learned during the year. I
use some as solos, and duets. A grand time to present the choir awards."
Mr. Donald Kettrirg, East Liberty Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, Pa. . ."The most
successful project we have tried is a Litany service at the end of the choir year.
This is a festival service with all the choirs of the church participating, and
closing with a Litany in which each choir in succession sings a response, and then
at the end all the choirs join in something like the Sibelius 'Onward, Ye Peoples'."
Mr. Alwyn Howell, Southside Baptist Church, Jacksonville, Florida. . ."We have a
church music festival for our five choirs in May. This takes a great deal of our
time, and the members look forward to it. Awards and certificates are presented
to those making a good record during the year."
The question "Do you know a good Mothers' Day anthem" brought only a limited number
of suggestions:
A Prayer for Motherhood - Norman - Lorenz - No. A 131 satb or sa
Carol for Mothers - Lovelace - H. W. Gray satb: ssa: sa. New last Season
Responsive Service for Mothers' Day - Voris - O. Ditson - No. 14171
satb: must be adapted for children
Now Thank We All Our God - Bach - E. C. Schirmer
Mothers' Day Hymn - Barnes - J. Fischer - No. 8087 satb
We Thank Thee Lord for Mother Love - from Junior Choir Church Year Book - Flammer
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Last month we suggested the Twenty-third Psalm, and the history of church music as
two subjects for special musical services. Whereupon Mrs. Ingram of Lynchburg,
Virginia, and Mrs. Cotton of Milwaukee sent copies of recent programs built on these
themes.
Mrs. Ingram - theme: Twenty-third Psalm - morning service
Hymns: He leadeth me and Savior Like a Shepherd Lead Us
Anthems: Brother James Air
God is My Shepherd - Dvorak
Scripture: Twenty-third Psalm Choric Speaking
Mrs. Cotton - The Singing Church - Hymn Festival sponsored by AGO
Prelude: Chorale Preludes on Gregorian Chant - Demessieux
From the Hebrew Service - "The God of Abraham Praise"
A mediaeval Latin Plainsong Hymn - "Of the Father's Love Begotten"
The Hymn-prelude-"A Mighty Fortress is Our God"
Martin Luther's Great Reformation Hymn- "A Mighty Fortress" - arr. Mueller
A Psalm Tune from Calvin's Psalter - "All People that on Earth do Dwell"
(as lined-out by a precentor)
A Psalm Tune from the Scottish Psalter "Dundee" - "God Moves in a Mysterious Way"
Finest Hymn of Isaac Watts, father of the English Hymn - "Our God, our Help in
Ages Past"
Offertory - Bach - the Greatest Master of Church Music -"Cone, blessed Rest"
Charles Wesley's Most Famous Hymn - "Jesus, Lover of My Soul"
A 20th Century Hymn - "This is my Father's World"
Postlude - Chorale Prelude on "Palisades" Sowerby
* * *
Do you want an inexpensive book of games and stunts? Then send 300 to the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C., and
ask for a copy of "Handbook for Recreational Leaders".
Three simple games suitable for rehearsal:
1. One child hums a line of a song, or claps the rhythm of a song; choir
guesses name of song.
2. Child calls the name of another child, then repeats the words of one line
of a hymn or anthem. If the child whose name is called, can repeat the
following line, he may choose another hymn for another child to guess.
3. If the children have been learning to
make a "do I look like this" game out
guesser; the other children decide on
ask questions that can be answered by
correctly on the blackboard.
Who knows any others?
recognize musical signs, they can
of it. One child is chosen as the
a musical sign, and the guesser must
yes or no, until he can draw the sign
* * *
AMONG OURSELVES
Donald Mathis expected a maximum of 60 for his after school program. Instead,
120 enrolled, and he takes care of all of them. He started the program in Peoria,
and now finds that it works equally well in Chicago. If you would like one of the
folders on the Fun and Friendship Club, send a stamped self addressed envelope to
Donald Mathis, Faith United Church of Christ, 9201 South Justine St., Chicago 20.
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Four of our members, Mrs. LaVahn Maesch, Mrs. Leonard Warner, Miss Freda
Kopplin and Mrs. Harlan Kirk, of Appleton, Wis., have been influential in establishing the annual Junior Choir Festival in their city.
Dr. Whittlesey had one boy in his choir who was troublesome. How did he meet
the situation? Nagging? No, he drew the boy into conversation, found that he was
keenly interested in coins. At the next rehearsal, Dr. W. presented him with one
from his own collection. At the next encounter the boy said "Guess what!
I was
offered $5.00 for that coin you gave me. But I didn't sell it. No-sir!" The next
step will be a visit to a famous collector in a nearby city. There is no longer a
behavior problem.
Marvin Reecher reports that his annual Choir Jubilee netted the choirs over
$1000.00. This fund pays for scholarships at summer music schools, for young people
who will assist Mr. Reecher in the music program of the church.
This happened in a public school music class in Texas...A little girl came to
her teacher at the beginning of the period and told her that her grandmother was to
be operated on at that very hour. The teacher said "Go back to your seat and say a
little prayer for your grandmother". Then she thought better, and said to the class
"Rachel is worried because her grandmother is very ill and is being operated on
right now. Suppose we all stop for a minute and say a prayer for her." Lillian
Thompson, the teacher, told me later that she had never seen any group of people
as quiet and as sincerely in prayer as that class of children.
* * *
Do you know of people who should attend the Choristers Guild Summer Schools? Then
send us the names and addresses, or let us send some of the folders for you to distribute. Just let us know how many you can use.
** *
Remember that we should have your order by
April 30, if you are planning to award Choir
Pins. Check should accompany the order. . .
$1.00 each...for ten or more
$1.25 each...for less than 10
$1.00 for guard and for each pearl.
** *
TIPPING and TITHING. . .Now it came to pass on a Day at Noon that the Editor was a
guest of a certain rich Man. And the Lunch was enjoyed at a popular Restaurant. And
the Waiters were very efficient. And the Food was Good.
Now when the End of the Meal was at Hand, the Waiter brought unto the Host the
Check. And the Host examined it, frowned a bit, but made no Comment.
But as we arose to depart, I observed that he laid some Coins under the Edge of
his Plate. I know not what Denomination the Coins were, howbeit, the waiter who stood
nearby smiled happily, which, being interpreted, means that the Tip was satisfactory.
Now this Parable entereth not into the Merits or Demerits of Tipping. But as I
meditated on the Coins that become Tips throughout our Nation, I began to think of
Tips and Tithes. For the proverbial Tip should be at least a Tithe, lest the Waiter
turn against you.
And as I continued to think on these Things, it came unto me that few people who
go to Church treat their God as well as they honor their Waiter. For they gave unto
the Waiter a Tithe, but unto God they give whatsoever they think will get them by.
Verily, doth Man fear the Waiter more than he feareth God? And doth he love
God less than he loveth the Waiter? Or doth the Waiter do more for him than his God?
Truly, truly, a Man and his Money are past Understanding!
- News at the Crossroads 5
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CHORISTERS'
GUILD
MEMBERSHIP
RENEWAL
I enclose $2.00 for my 1952-53 membership.
Name
(Please Print)
Street and No.
City and State
Position
Approximate membership in church
Choirs
Name
number
number
age range of boys of girls
How can the Guild be more helpful?
What subjects should be discussed in the Letters?
What suggestions have you for raising funds?
What should be included in the Choristers' Guild Handbook?
CHOir.IS4—firdAS / (z-jJ
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May 1952
Vol. 3, No. 9
1951-52 CHORISTERS' GUILD MEMBERSHIP
This list is included in this Letter for the benefit of the numerous members who are
interested in organizing seminars, festivals, study groups or Guild chapters, and
want to contact the other members of their vicinity.
It also indicates, by the absence of their names, the people who should be members,
and might be, if You told them about the Guild.
Anschicks, Mrs. R. D.
Archibald, Mrs. R. B.
London Arms, 302 Northern Blvd 406 Pine St.
Albany 4, N. Y.
West Monroe, La.
Arington, Mrs. B. M.
Glade Springs, Va.
Allwine, Harry H., Jr.
4107 N. 43rd St.
Omaha, Nebr.
Abrahamson, Aina
Luther College
Wahoo, Nebr.
Ailes, Mrs. Marian V.
1307 W. Tennessee
Midland, Texas
Allison, Mrs. J. V.
15 Riverview Place
Lynchburg, Va.
Autrey, Miss Lucile
604 S. Main St.
Moultrie, Ga.
Armstrong, Mrs. Harry
435 Kirk Road
Dtcatur, Ga.
Buchanan, Edward L.
1409 Central Ave.
Ashland, Ky.
Ashburn, Mrs. Leonard
9021 Granby Drive
Norfolk 5, Va.
Bedell, Ernest
4101 Grove Ave.
Richmond 21, Va.
Arehart, Mrs. C. L.
222 E. Washington St.
Charles Town, W. Va.
Berry, Mrs. Miriam
123 E. Harvard Ave.
College Park, Ga.
Brown, Mrs. Elaine
Berger, Lillian H.
Temple Univ., Dept Music Ed. 379 Vernon St.
Broad and Montgomery
San Francisco 27, Calif.
Philadelphia 22, Pa.
Bradley, Mrs. Prentice
Barnes, Mrs. Marguerite
88 South St.
906 N. E. 80th Ave.
Pittsfield, Mass.
Portland, Oregon
Bronseth, James R., Jr.
Barkley, Mrs. Richard
4541 Minnehaha Ave.
631 West Great Falls St.
Minneapolis 6, Minn.
Falls Church, Va.
Britton, Elizabeth
Benson, Mrs. Regina
15 Johnson Ave.
406 Whitlock Ave.
Binghampton, N. Y.
Marietta, Ga.
Barcafer, Temple J.
2225 Stevens Woods Lane
Dallas, Texas
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1/ -s
Ball, Rachel
803 N. Madison
Dallas, Texas
Bentley, Mrs. R. D.
1143 Oak
Lawton, Okla.
Cumming, Mrs. J. R.
Box 182
Griffin, Ga.
Blackwood, Philip T.
102 W. Charlemont Ave.
Kingsport, Tenn.
Bowen, Mrs. K. B.
10951 Hermosa Ave.
Chicago 43, Iii.
Collomore, Mrs. Dorothy
Haddam, Conn.
Bristol, Franklin
401 Tuckahoe Blvd.
Richmond 21, Va.
Brooks, Mrs. Charles
First Presbyterian Church
Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Berry, James A.
1000 Colorado St.
Austin, Texas
Cordes, Ida Kitching
14600 Glastonbury Rd.
Detroit 23, Mich.
Bunnell, Lyman B.
65 Warwick St.
West Hartford 7, Conn.
Copeland, James R.
1304 Claremont Ave.
Richmond 27, Va.
Brooks, Mrs. Genevieve F.
5 Scarsdale Rd.
West Hartford 7, Conn.
Crumrine, Mrs. M. M.
82 S. Wade Ave.
Washington, Pa.
Burggraf, Lural
Box 265
Albany, Oregon
Colquitt, Mrs. Coy
Decatur Rd.
Lawrenceville, Ga.
Bull, Mrs. L. H.
163 E. Linn St.
Belief onte, Pa.
Cartlidge, Anna M.
1587 Lee St.
Charleston, W. Va.
Browne, Jean
2700 Garland Ave.
Richmond 22, Va.
Camp, James
1021 N. W. 37th St.
Oklahoma City 3, Okla.
Boggs, Frank
2023 Euclid
Dallas 6, Texas
Cole, Helen R.
414 Sunset Dr.
Wilson, N. C.
Bancroft, M. Maude
4 Walnut St.
Worcester, Mass.
Constable, Marian
64 Smith Ave.
Bergenfield, N. J.
Blough, Mrs. Richard F.
409 Colgate Ave.
Johnstown, Pa.
Cleaveland, Harlan
First Methodist Church
Monument Square
Battle Creek, Mich.
Belgum, Mrs. Harold
1117 - 14th St., S. E.
Minneapolis, Minn.
Curtis, Mrs. Dora
3431 N. Rockhold Ave.
Rosemead, Calif.
Baker, Mildred R.
P. O. Box 28, Baptist Seminary Crossley, Mrs. Julian M.
Louisville, Ky.
260 Orange St.
Macon, Ga.
2
Chalmers, Mrs. Charles
2715 Peachtree Rd., N. E.
Atlanta, Ga.
Collier)Shelby
Wayland College
Plainview, Texas
Chaney, Jess M.
9124 Santa Monica Blvd.
Beverly Hills, Calif.
Crawford, Mrs. Sherman
812 Washington
Lawton, Okla.
Clark, Larrie M.
1917 Lovers Lane
St. Joseph 54, Mo.
Cook, Oliver
312 N. Church St.
Charlotte 6, N. C.
Clopton, Maurice N.
618 E. 15th St.
Okmulgee, Okla.
Cooksey, Nola L.
1020 Lamar Ave.
Houston 2, Texas
Cheesman, Virginia
Pelham Court Apts.
6809 Emlen St.
Crain, Margaret L.
1703 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia 3, Pa.
Davis, Brookes
Princeton, W. Va.
Doering, Mrs. E. C.
114 Main St.
Cromwell, Conn.
Farrell, Mrs. Florence S.
De Weese, Edward, Jr.
458 Ponce de Leon Ave., N. E. 939 F. St.
San Fernando, Calif.
Atlanta, Ga.
Fredrick, Mrs. E. D.
2295 N. 10th St.
Beaumont, Texas
Davison, Mrs. Virginia
1324 Taper St.
Long Beach, Calif.
Fry, Paul B.
1034 E. Main St.
Albemarle, N. C.
Fetherlin, Mrs. G. Herchel
636 E. Beau St.
Washington, Pa.
De Fries, Stanley
135 Fillmore
Topeka, Kansas
Fink, Lawrence D.
4367 S. Lincoln
Englewood, Colo.
Frerichs, Mrs. Robert T.
Rural Church Center
American Baptist Assembly
Green Lake, Wis.
Davis, Mark
402 High St.
Bethlehem, Pa.
Franck, Mrs. W. F.
19 Scuffle Hill
Martinsville, Va.
Davis, John, Jr.
117 Baylis, S. W.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Fischer, Gertrude
347 Linden Ave.
Newport, Ky.
Durocher, Lillian K.
1829 W. 103rd St.
Chicago 43, Ill.
Foster, Mrs. Audrey
1318 N. 60th St.
Davis, Rosemary
5123 Truman Rd.
Kansas City, Mo.
Flanagan, Andrew L.
114 Leila St.
Johnstown, Pa.
Day, Gletis O.
7626 Mayfair St.
Dearborn, Mich.
Fox, Lillian
321 West 10th
Sedalia, Mo.
Dunlap, Katherine
123 S. Franklin St.
Reidsville, N. C.
Fuller, James E.
Box 205, Baptist Seminary
Louisville 6, Ky.
De Hart, George
Box 6
Midland, Texas
Fredrickson, Mrs. Eskil
1115 Tuscola St.
Saginaw, Mich.
Elliot, Mrs. H. Palmer
1576 Beall Ave.
Wooster, Ohio
Fohrholtz, Mrs. Howard A.
52 Springside Ave.
Pittsfield, Mass.
Estes, Mrs.
569 Darien Way
San Francisco, Calif.
Foulkes, Mrs. Robert H.
1632 Elberon Ave.
E. Cleveland 12, Ohio
Ehlers, Retta Wooden
904 Woodland Ave.
Duluth 5, Minn.
Floyd, Mrs. Eugene
226 Bay State Rd.
Boston 15, Mass.
Elliot, Donald H.
Trinity Presbyterian Church
Felder at Hull St.
Montgomery, Ala.
Fritz, Rev. Clifford M.
6o8 Tenth St.
Watertown, Wis.
Gotwald, Robert M.
Monroe St. Methodist Ch.
Monroe St. & Rosedale Ave.
Toledo 6, Ohio
Goldsmith, Harvey
First Baptist Church
Forest City, N. C.
Green, Paul
Immanuel Baptist Church
2nd & Zanthus Ave.
Tulsa 4, Okla.
Griffis, Barbara
Congregational Church
Portland, N. Y.
Giles, Mrs. Dorothy H.
3
P. O. Box 242
Tappan, N. Y.
Gottschall, Miles B.
28 W. William St.
Delaware, Ohio
Giles, William
102-104 N. Gay St.
Mt. Vernon, Ohio
George, Mrs. R. L.
4312 Lynd Ave.
Arcadia, Calif.
Guy, Dorothy
1250 Beach Valley Rd.,N.E.
Atlanta, Ga.
Garrett, Lily C.
10002 Lawyers Lane
Columbus, Ga.
I17
Goeller, Mrs. Lauretta
1136 E. Palmer
Glendale 5, Calif.
Harrison, Mrs. Welch
Box G. G.
Pryor, Okla.
Howell, Aiwyn
Southside Baptist Church
Jacksonville, Fla.
Getz, Clarence
Gloversville, N. Y.
Halserson, Grace
1420 Clairmont Ave.
Detroit, Mich.
Hall, Harwood V.
2815-39th St., N. W.
Washington, D. C.
Gerig, Mrs. David
2229 Muskoday
Ft. Wayne, Ind.
Howie, Mrs. Carl
Fort Ave., Ext.
Lynchburg, Va.
Harman, Mrs. A. A.
1603 Pleasant Dr.
Dallas, Texas
Green, Mrs. James B., Jr.
1241 Briarwood Dr., N. E.
Atlanta, Ga.
Hanson, Julie Ann
306 Oak Grove, Apt. 306
Minneapolis, Minn.
Hoyt, John R.
1401 N. W. 25th St.
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Gabbert, John
17226 Redford Ave.
Detroit 19, Mich.
Hanna, Mrs. Charles
58 Elm St.
Potsdam, N. Y.
Hodgson, Mrs. Ivan
1522 - 24th St.
Detroit 16, Mich.
Green, Mrs. Margaret
1420 Florida Ave.
Richmond 3, Calif.
Hall, Mrs. W. H.
922 Urban Ave.
Durham, N. C.
Hessell, Elaine
146 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston 16, Mass.
Groves, J. Harold
Edenton St. Methodist Ch.
228 Edenton St.
Raleigh, N. C.
Henry, Louise
Greeneville, Tenn.
Hutton, Iverson I.
2016 - 31st St.
Meridian, Miss.
Humphreys, Mrs. Robert L.
Lansing, Kansas
Hoiland, Dr. Richard
1703 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia 3, Pa.
Hickson, Mrs. W. H.
1012 Federal St.
Lynchburg, Va.
Herschelmann, Mr. Russ
5301 Harvard Rd.
Detroit 24, Mich.
Hampsher, Harry F.
1007 Poplar St.
Murray, Ky.
Hall, Cecil E.
Church & Broad Sts.
Martinsville, Va.
Hagstrom, Mrs. Raymond
68 Holden St.
Worcester 5, Mass.
Hess, Mrs. A. V.
1320 Chase St.
Anderson, Ind.
Hewlett, Mrs. Alice A.
740 Glenmore Blvd.
Glendale, Calif.
Hewitt, Walter N.
Prospect Presbyterian Church Ingram, Mrs. Madeline
601 Euclid Ave.
Maplewood, N. J.
Lynchburg, Va.
Holby, William G.
Irby, Mrs. Ray D.
Ashland, Ky.
Central Methodist Church
Meridian, Miss.
Hoshaw, Mrs. Edward
3311 Rose Hill
Irey, Mr. Edwin
Boise, Idaho
4th Ave. Methodist Church
4th & St. Catherine
Huffman, Mrs. Gretchen
Louisville 3, Ky.
2706 Belleview Ave.
Cheverly, Md.
Johnson, Mrs. Carroll
1042 S. Prospect St.
Hughes, Mrs. Bruce M.
San Gabriel, Calif.
952 Plymouth Rd., N. E.
Atlanta 6, Ga.
Jacobs, Mrs. G. W.
233 Kings Highway
Holler, Fred
Decatur, Ga.
2865 Zealand Ave.
Baton Rouge, La.
Johnson, Roy E.
201 E. Foster
Helms, Richard
Pampa, Texas
318 E. 55th St.
Kansas City 2, Mo.
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Johnson, Ray
Baptist Temple
8th Ave. at 21st
Huntington, W. Va.
Johnston, Mrs. Latta R.
831 Poinsettia Rd.
Columbia, S. C.
Jordan, Mrs. Mae P.
1614 Princeton Ave.
Cb,rlotte, N. C.
Jaros, Doris M.
225 Fountain St., N. E.
Grand Rapids 3, Mich.
Janssen, Mrs. Eleanor
Mountain Lakes, N. J.
Johnson, Vivian A.
424 N. 59th Ave., W.
Kennerly, Mrs. Byron
Hawkinsville, Ga.
Kirk, Mrs. Harlan
619 E. Parkway Blvd.
Appleton, Wis.
Keck, Mrs. L. R.
1114 - 44th St.
Des Moines, Iowa
Kinzie, Mrs. Galen W.
3002 - 50th St.
Des Moines 10, Iowa
Kenney, Alfred
715 University St.
Fresno, Calif.
Klausli, Mr. Richard
Plymouth Congregatonal
Townsend and Allegan
Lansing, Mich.
Kerr, Wilbert H.
Cleveland, Tenn.
Knannlein, Mrs. W. J.
5323 Primrose Ave.
Indianapolis 20, Ind.
Kiphart, Mrs. Maurice W.
Everts, Ky.
Duluth 7, Minn.
Joslin, George D.
125 N. Gordon
Wichita 12, Kansas
Jordan, Mrs. Lloyd
204 Perrymont Ave.
Lynchburg, Va.
Johe, Edward
444 E. Broad St.
Columbus 15, Ohio
Johnson, Mrs. A. J.
2563 Elizabeth P1.
Macon, Ga.
Kryder, Mrs. Marjorie
8757 Shoshone
Northridge, Calif.
Kopplin, Freda
1219 tip. 8th St.
Apideton,
Kipps, Margaret
101 W. Howell St.
High Point, N. C.
Kemp, John
1001 N. Robinson
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Kane, Mrs. Earl
12 Prosper St.
New Brunswick, N. J.
Kraft, Alene
419 S. Front St.
Wheeling, W. Va.
Kendrick, Margaret
45 - 15th St., N. E.
Atlanta, Ga.
Kreinheder, Mrs. C. H.
21560 Maydale Ave.
Euclid 23, Ohio
Kritner, Mrs. Edith
1858 Fanning St.
Los Angeles 26, Calif.
Krimmel, Mrs. Mary
Princeton, N. J.
Kettring, Donald
Box 5371
Pittsburgh 6, Pa.
Kam You. Edwin T.
1229 N. W. 49th St.
5
Krause, Mrs. J. D.
15 Hawthorne Ave.
Delmar, N. Y.
Legenhouse, Mrs. John H.
Rt. 3
Osgood, Ind.
Lundquist, Mrs. Amos
110 W. 6th Ave.
S. St. Paul, Minn.
Larsin, Ruth M.
Victoria Hotel
Des Moines, Iowa
Leibfarth, Mrs. W. C.
1408 S. Gallatin
Marion, Ind.
Larson, Earl Roland
214 W. First St.
Duluth 2, Minn.
Lehmann, G. A.
500 Park Ave.
Rochester 7, N. Y.
Lowrance, R. J.
1184 Hencock Dr., N. E.
Atlanta, Ga.
Lune., Clarence B.
1750 Cclo7edo Blvd.
Denver 7, Colo.
Lefeve:', Paul
Linitoor9 Presbyterian Ch.
Linwoo2. a7,6. ':Tooe,.land Kansas Ciiy
Lb.
Lemonds, Ti'.Iiam W.
4400 N. S",i-Jrtel
119
Lovelace, Dr. Austin
517 N. Edgeworth St.
Greensboro, N. C.
Martin, Mrs. Harold E.
94 East Ave.
Norwalk, Conn.
Monroe, Mrs. Harry B.
1003 Tipton St.
High Point, N. C.
Lucky, Mrs. Carl
Box 36
Stanwood, Wash.
Moehring, Mrs. E. L.
440 Avery St.
Decatur, Ga.
Marquart, Mrs. Wesley
381 N. Grand
Orange, Calif.
Leland, Mrs. F. E.
71 Woodland Rd.
Auburndale 66, Mass.
Moesch, Mrs. Madge
108 E. Atlantic St.
Appleton, Wis.
Madriska, Mrs. Patrick
29 Howard Ave.
Lockport, N. Y.
Lefever, Howard
Indianola Presbyterian Ch.
Iuka-Waldeck-18th Ave.
Columbus, Ohio
Martin, Charles H.
3034 First Ave.
Sacramento, Calif.
Meyer, Mrs. Lucile S.
5722 Wyatt Ave.
Cincinnati 13, Ohio
Mellor, James N.
3501 Westminster, Apt. 4
Dallas, Texas
Mathias, W. C.
1000 N. Front St.
Milton, Pa.
Maaske, Mrs. Neva B.
Matson, Florence
1607 E. 7th St.
Charlotte 4, N. C.
Maxwell, Jean
P. O. Box 362
Meridian, Miss.
Morrison, W. Robert
Canton 2, Ohio
Moore, Mrs. John McCabe
2420 Edison Ave.
Granite City, Ill.
Martens, Mrs. Walter
210 Fort Hill Dr.
Charleston 4, W. Va.
Myers, Elaine
Box 1017
College Place, Wash.
McClintock, Robert
Dauphin Way Baptist Ch.
Mobile 16, Ala.
Mack, Mrs. J. B.
698 Button Rd., N. E.
Atlanta, Ga.
McDowell, Mrs. Roy R.
3011 Letcher Ave.
Richmond 22, Va.
Moore, Loraine
112 S. 10th
Salina, Kansas
McSwain, Elaine
P. O. Box 6
Derita, N. C.
Murrow, Mrs. Cecil
828 Grandview Ave.
Des Moines, Iowa
McNeill, Mrs. Esther
2213 Greenup St.
Covington, Ky.
Mogck, Oliver A.
3417 Humboldt Ave., S.
Minneapolis, Minn.
McBride, Mrs. Lucille
190 Highland Ave.
Galesburg, Ill.
Murphy, Mrs. O. O.
663 - 17th St.
San Bernardino, Calif.
McNutt, Mrs. Adelaide
5224 La Roda Ave.
Los Angeles, Calif.
Livingston, Mrs. Lester
500 Wood St.
Johnstown, Pa.
Lewerenz, Arnold
4151 Ramona Dr.
Riverside, Calif.
Lane, Hallie C.
Mineral Ridge, Ohio
Ludwig, Mrs. Fredrick
Postville, Iowa
Laib, Mrs. Charles R.
3912 Trevor Ave.
Cincinnati 11, Ohio
Lewis, Mrs. J. A.
306 Sylvester
Webster Groves 19, Mo.
Mitchell, Robert Hughes
P. O. Box 637
Walnut Creek, Calif.
Mathis, Donald E.
9211 S. Justine St.
Chicago 20, Iii.
Martin, Phyllis
207 W. West St.
Sturgis, Mich.
Miller, Helen J.
1453 N. 60th St.
Monroe, Corinne
18 Loring St.
Worcester, Mass.
48 Shoreview Ave.
6
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McCormick, Martha
804 Grand Ave.
Kansas City 6, Mo.
McDonald, Mylus
Southern Baptist Seminary
2825 Lexington Rd.
Louisville, Ky.
McMahon, Aileen
3505 St. Johns Dr.
Dallas, Texas
McClung, Opal
307 Walnut St.
Princeton, W. Va.
Northrup, Harriet
116 E. Creighton
Fort Wayne 5, Ind.
Nordness, Louise
Dorm. 13, Room 36
Richland, Wash.
Neuenschwander, Mrs. M.
718 W. Main St.
Berne, Ind.
Newton, Mrs. J. C.
Osbrink, Kenneth L.
4704 Taylor Blvd.
Louisville 15, Ky.
Quinones, Mrs. M. A.
280 Park Ave.
Lewiston, Ill.
Oslund, Mrs. Esther
Quimby, John S.
217 McDonald Ave.
Charlotte 3, N. C.
6333 - 25th Ave.
Kenosha, Wis.
Pinkerton, Lloyd
201 E. Washington Blvd.
Ft. Wayne, Ind.
Peters, Frances C.
2 Quinlan St.
Lynchburg, Va.
Percival, Mrs. Mildred
2971 N. Verdugo Rd.
Glendale, Calif.
Peebles, Mrs. Ernestine
145 W. Williams St.
Delaware, Ohio
Rudebock, Ruth
Baldwin, N. Y.
Rose, Charmione
High Point, N. C.
Reecher, Marvin
1301 S. Boston St.
Tulsa, Okla.
Richardson, Mrs. Jeffers
405 Hazel Ave.
Endicott, N. Y.
Ritchie, Roberta
Prophet, Mrs. George
452 Broadway
Troy, N. Y.
5 N. E. DeSpain
Pendleton, Oregon
Phipps, Mrs. William P.
Davy, W. Va.
Raney, Mrs. Richard M.
Box 107
Osborne, Kansas
Peter, Mrs. B. K.
106 Greenbrier Court
Beckley, W. Va.
59 Monterey
Phillips, Mrs. Dwight
Box 6003
Ft. Worth 15, Texas
Rulifson, Mrs. LeRoy
3301 S. E. Madison
Portland 15, Oregon
Perry, L. G.
1509 Christine Ave.
Anniston, Ala.
806 South St.
Perry, Mrs. Clayton H.
225 Shadowmoar Dr.
Decatur, Ga.
Rice, Mrs. Edward
5820 West Blvd.
Pfohl, Henry
Reynolds, Mrs. W. R.
Mitchellville, Iowa
777 Virginia Cl.
Atlanta, Ga.
Nogle, Francis A.
701 S. Noble St.
Lebanon, Pa.
Nelson, Mrs. Clarence
534 Kedzie Dr.
East Lansing, Mich.
Neal, Mrs. R. F.
3021 Westminster
Dallas, Texas
Newell, Mrs. T. D., Jr.
2400 E. Fifth St.
Charlotte 4, N. C.
75 Hicks St.
O'Brien, Mrs. Gladys
1101 Lindsay St.
Gainesville, Texas
O'Keefe, Betty
820 W. 15th St.
Pine Bluff, Ark.
Riddle, Carroll C.
Mobile 17, Ala.
Rothenberger, Velma
Lafayette, Ind.
Brooklyn 2, N. Y.
Petersen, Mrs. Ruth
171 S. Mayfair Ave.
Daly City 25, Calif.
Rush, Mrs. H. Lowry
Rush Memorial Hospital
Meridian, Miss.
Ratchford, Wilma
2929 Selwyn Ave.
Charlotte 7, N. C.
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Riley, James N.
Qambel Hinged Co.
210 S. Wabash Ave.
Chicago 4, Ill.
Maynard Memorial Church
3768 Watseka Ave.
Shelton, Elizabeth
108 Rogers St.
Bluefield, W. Va.
Roman, Mrs.
Buena Vista, Colo.
Schiffler, Doris
Mozart Park
Wheeling, W. Va.
Schatzman, Mrs. Hattie
1716 Scott St.
Covington, Ky.
Smith, Mrs. Richard M.
1728 Kilian Rd.
St. Cloud, Minn.
Simon, Mrs. W. F. A.
436 Chestnut St.
Wyandotte, Mich.
Smith, Mrs. Nat
1201 S. L. St.
Lake Worth, Fla.
Schmidt, Elsie M.
27 Cannon St.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Spencer, Mrs. Rose M.
5 Beechwood Ave.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Stephen, W. J.
1909 Nabers
Vernon, Texas
Ramsdell, Mrs. R. B.
2601 Central Ave.
Middletown, Ohio
Rhein, Mrs. Victor
430 Ransom Ave.
Ripon, Wis.
Sayger, Jane
21 Gravely St.
Martinsville, Va.
Simm, Marcile
29 Polk St.
Oshkosh, Wis.
Smith, Mrs. Gertrude
18017 Meyers Rd.
Detroit 35, Mich.
Sheldon, Mrs. Everitt
198 Western Ave.
Brattleboro, Vt.
Sloop, Mrs. Winifred
631 N. Zeyn
Anaheim, Calif.
Stewart, Mrs. Cecil
501 E. Milton St.
Alliance, Ohio
Shimer, Mary
61 W. Main St.
Canajoharie, N. Y.
Sigafoose, Margaret
214 Bland St.
Bluefield, W. Va.
Smith, Mrs. George
116 N. Church St.
East Point, Ga.
Schauer, Mrs. H. E.
716 E. Jackson St.
Belvidere, Ill.
Smith, Olive
344 Park Ave.
Johnstown, Pa.
Stone, Mrs. Philip M.
Savage, Frederick P.
2090 Pacific Ave., Apt. 703 5434 Burnet Rd.
Austin, Texas
Scott, Donald
College of the Bible
Lexington, Ky.
Schonlaub, Mrs. W. O.
108 Washington St.
Kentland, Ind.
Shore, Mary Louise
1960 Georgia Ave.
Winston-Salem 5, N. C.
Seibert, Mrs. John
510 Palliser St.
Johnstown, Pa.
Schroff, Mrs. A. J.
199 N. Main St.
Milltown, N. J.
Shubert, Oliver E.
214 Woodland Ave.
Oberlin, Ohio
Spain, Mrs. Foster
91 Avery Dr., N. E.
Atlanta, Ga.
Starbuck, Elizabeth
605 W. Arch St.
Portland, Ind.
Snell, Frederick A.
142 Market St.
Williamsport, Pa.
Switten, Mrs. Virginia
202 Moore St.
Princeton, N. J.
Stampfli, Howard G.
Vance Memorial Church
Woodsdale
Wheeling, W. Va.
Staples, Eva
317 N. Main St.
High Point, N. C.
Sutherland, Mrs. B. L.
Box 371
Pascagoula, Miss.
Sischo, Marion J.
2119 Genevieve St.
San Bernardino, Calif.
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Slike, Walter
132 - 2nd St.
Manhattan Beach, Calif.
Stitt, Mrs. J. H.
302 Bennett St.
Bridgeport, Ohio
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Settle, Mrs. B. C.
1781 Valley Brook Rd.
Decatur, Ga.
Thompson, Lillian
4301 Overhill Dr.
Dallas 5, Texas
Williams, J. O.
1526 - 5th Ave.
Bessemer, Ala.
Tambert, Rev. Carl V.
233 S. Kenwood
Glendale 5, Calif.
Upton, Deborah
79 Woburn St.
Reading, Mass.
Wiedower, Esther
2810 Leeward
Los Angeles, Calif.
Threatte, Mrs. Bernard
888 Adair Ave., N. E.
Atlanta, Ga.
Valenta, Betty M.
1014 Holland Rd.
Schenectady, N. Y.
Weeks, Mrs. William H.
Candor, N. C.
Tuttle, Barbara B.
465 Morris Ave.
Elizabeth 3, N. J.
Westby, Mrs. George
1233 - 43rd St.
Des Moines, Iowa
Turner, Ruth
1112 Locust St.
Texarkana, Ark.
Williams, David V.
913 S. Boulder Ave.
Tulsa, Okla.
Trautman, Mrs. Edwin
202 S. Railroad St.
Myerstown, Pa.
Williams, Mrs. Irving, Jr.
524 Oak Ave.
Norfolk 2, Va.
Tyler, Virginia
1413 E. Lakeview
Pensacola, Fla.
Warner, Mrs. Leonard
729 E. Washington St.
Appleton, Wis.
Taylor, Rev. Hubert
201 Washington St., S. W.
Atlanta 3, Ga.
Wagner, Virginia F.
P. O. Box 600
Norfolk 1, Va.
Toskey, Amy Leslie
338 S. Euclid Ave.
Oak Park, Ill.
Work, William J.
Limestone & Smith Sts.
Gaffney, S. C.
Tandy, Mrs. Joe B.
Box 538
Ozone, Texas
Tutchings, Everett
520 Park Ave.
New York 21, N. Y.
Todd, Rev. Herrick
132 W. Park St.
Grove City, Ohio
Thomas, Edith Lovell
622 W. 113th St.
New York 25, N. Y.
Thalman, Mrs. W. A.
802 W. Cherry St.
Carbondale, Ill.
Wooster, Alvin A.
P. O. Box 626
North Adams, Mass.
Welsh, Mrs. Charles
4031 N. E. Wistaria Dr.
Portland 13, Oregon
Welliver, Mrs. Harry B.
716 Ninth St., N. W.
Minot, N. D.
Whittlesey, Dr. F. L.
3300 Mockingbird Lane
Dallas 5, Texas
Washington, Mrs. Lawrence
181 Stanford Ave.
Menlo Park, Calif.
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Walston, Harriet
3231 Oakland Ave.
Catlettsburg, Ky.
Watkins, Mrs. Carolyn B.
130 W. Dixie Ave.
Marietta, Ga.
Waid, Mrs. E. B.
214 Adair Ave., S. E.
Atlanta, Ga.
Wigent, Mary
326 E. Wayne St.
Ft. Wayne, Ind.
Williams, Lenora A.
3510 Monroe St.
Columbia, S. C.
Woodruff, Harvey L.
Rollins College
Winter Park, Fla.
Weikel, Dexter
323 George St.
S. Williamsport, Pa.
Wake, Mrs. Arthur
252 McWane Circle
Lynchburg, Va.
Waring, Peter
457 Main St.
Hartford 3, Conn.
Wick, Rolland E.
4106 W. Superior St.
Duluth, Minn.
Waddell, Dorothea
90 Clinton St.
Whitesboro, N. Y.
Werner, Mrs. Lynne
3339 Buckner Lane
Paducah, Ky.
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Whitney, Mrs. Gerald
Box 1
Athena, Oregon
Williams, Mrs. George W., Jr. Weegard, Ruth
401 Copenhill Ave., N. E.
Box 161
Atlanta, Ga.
Valdese, N. C.
Watkins, Mrs. T. Cole
1822 Harvard St.
Alexandria, La.
Wolgemuth, Mrs. W. A.
661 - 18th Ave., S. W.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
2046 Dunwoody St., N. E.
Wheeler, Mrs. R. J.
802 Carolina Ave.
Gastonia, N. C.
Wilson, Mrs. F. M.
728 Demuth St.
Johnstown, Pa.
White, Dan O.
425 Tuckaseegee Dr.
Charlotte 8, N. C.
Williamson, Bernard
97 N. Princeton Circle
Lynchburg, Va.
Wilson, Mrs. Florence C.
326 Ave. "A", S. E.
Winter Haven, Fla.
Zepp, Mrs. Reginald
Rt. 2
Toneytown, Md.
Waters, Paul E.
Court St. Methodist Church
Rockford, Ill.
Weertz, Mrs. F. J.
1731 Northwest Dr.
Des Moines 10, Iowa
Zimmer, Marion
325 E. Franklin St.
Appleton, Wis.
Wallace, Rosalyn
161 S. Main St.
Danville, Va.
Williams, Mrs. G. C.
354 Ninth St., N. E.
Atlanta, Ga.
Zeiss, Mrs. Evelyn
1108 Hope St.
S. Pasadena, Calif.
Winters, Mrs. Donald
2800 Lexington Rd.
Louisville 6, Ky.
Woods, Dorothy
Atlanta, Ga.
Ward, Thomas Welding
Zablodil, Mrs. Francis
1527 Hepburn Ave.
730 N. Maryland
Louisville 4, Ky.
Glendale, Calif.
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RESPONSE TO THE QUESTION - "What subjects should be discussed in the Letters" has
already brought a wealth of suggestions that should help to make the 1952-53 Letters
far more helpful than ever before. If we could manage in one season to treat the
following subjects adequately, the Letters would indeed be valuable:
Source material, such as that in the 23rd Psalm
Experiences of other directors relative to rehearsals, programming, music
Help on teaching the art of reverence, and other character building suggestions
Vocal exercises for children; best vowels, how much time, what kind, etc.
How to organize a Chroisters Guild in a small town, for all the directors
Overcoming conflicts with school and recreational activities.
A ministers column: what they expect of the music
Training the non-musical ear
Vocal and rehearsal techniques
Methods of evaluating awards
Anthem lists for seasons of the church year
A rehearsal plan, by the week, season, year
Organizational aids
Types of recognition services
Musical Games
Hymnology
Outline for teaching theory
Special projects
Special services
Parties and entertainment
Good recordings
How to train satisfactory choir-mothers and fathers
How to organize and run a summer camp
Hymns (one for each month) with suggestions for their presentation
Relationship between minister, organist, church school staff and director
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SUMMER CAMPS
The choir program does not need to stop with the close of the school year. In fact
there are many churches where the best work of the choir could be accomplished during
the summer, when there is more free time, and the program can be more extended and
more informal. What might be an impossible undertaking for one church might be accomplished thru the cooperation of several churches.
Summer camps can be carried out in the church building itself, or in cooperation with
a community park, or even on the farm of some good friend. Much can be done with
little, with the help of some ingenuity. The important thing is that the children
learn something worth while, have fun in learning it, and have a chance to become
aware of God's great nature.
Here is the chance to enjoy the wide range of teaching methods:
films, music games, nature study, creative hobbies, comradeship, devotional
services, plays, rehearsals culminating in a public performance.
Of course it is work; but it is the kind of work that keeps the mind and body and
spirit young.
FROM THE MOUTH OF BABES
One of my husband's Juniors asked him why if Christmas was celebrated on the same date
every year, Easter couldn't be too. He couldn't answer. Neither can I
Can you?
RHYTHM FUN
Secret Signals - One child taps a rhythm, second child imitates it. If right, he
qualifies for membership in the secret society, and gives a new signal to the next
child.
If your children are familiar with the looks of some rhythmic patterns, instead of
tapping out the answer, they may write it on the board.
KEEP THE ADDRESS
Every few days someone writes to inquire where they can get "The Successful Children's
Choir". It is published by H. T. FitzSimons Co., 615 N. La Salle St., Chicago 10, Iii.
WANTED - A GOOD ANGEL
After hand addressing 'woo summer school folders, I am unmistakably aware of the need
of some kind of automatic addressing device. Some investigation uncovered a hand
operated machine (ELLIOT ADDRESSERETTE) which can be bought for a little over $60.00.
Perhaps you are in a large church that may have an unused one hidden away in some
forgotten closet. Perhaps you know where we could buy a used one cheap. Perhaps you
know someone who would donate one to the cause. At any rate, we need one desperately.
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An Intelligent Question seeking an Intelligent Answer
"Dear Mrs. Jacobs: I shall appreciate any suggestions from you or other members,
about how to make the youth choirs more attractive than the numerous competing activities in the community. I feel perfectly sure of the interest and loyalty of those
who come. But it is rather disconcerting when an intelligent child, who has sung with
us for two years, announces that she can no longer do so because she has to go to
Brownies. (Those are her very words - she has to,). Obviously Brownies must have
something that we lack, and I'd like to know what it is. I shall be on leave of absence in Europe for May and June, but there will be all summer to work on the problem.
I shall be grateful for any light you can shed. Very sincerely, Philip T. Blackwood"
Here's a good opportunity for pooling our experiences!
Have you sent in your renewal ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
If we have an imposing membership list to show them, perhaps we can interest publishers
to sponsor single issues of the Choristers' Letter. It would be a great financial help
if they would but they will be interested only if we can show them a large and established membership. Yours will help. The sooner you send it, the more it will help.
Tomorrow is better than next week, but TODAY is better than tomorrow.
Thank You
To all those who returned the information questionnaires sent them. To those who have
voluntarily increased the amount of their checks for membership dues. To those who
have sent suggestions for the improvement of the Guild. To all those who have interested others in joining the Guild. To those who have sponsored seminars and festivals.
To all of you for your share in deepening the influence of the children's choir.
SUMMER IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER
Lynchburg Summer School * * * July 28 - August
6
Green Lake Summer School * * * * August 11 - 21
Sharpen old methods * * * * * and learn new ones
Greet old friends * * * * * * and make new ones
COME TO SUMMER SCHOOL
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June 1952
Vol. 3, No. 10
LET'S LEARN FROM THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
The other day, I spent an hour in a second grade class. There were 42 children in the
room; the teacher kept them calmly at work. I thought how distraught some of us would
be to take care of that many second graders for just one hour, and this teacher has
them six hours a day, five days a week. What is their secret?
For my special benefit, they started with a music lesson. The teacher very quietly,
but with a tone of expectancy, told them to take their music books out of their desks
and to find page 42. "When you find the page, raise your hand." The book was "The
American Singer, Book II". The children followed the song while they listened to a
recording of it. Then they sang it with the recording, and then without. It was evident that the teacher enjoyed the music; so did the children. Then the children wanted
to sing some of their favorites. For some they used the books; others they acted out.
The attitude was not learning, but enjoying. When the singing became somewhat raucous,
they were reminded softly to sing softly, and the next song was one that suggested
gentleness.
The next lesson was spelling, and strips of paper were passed out to the children.
Again, as soon as they had finished writing the word, they raised their hand. The lesson finished, the children automatically lined up single file around the room, and one
by one filed past the teacher to have their papers corrected. For each one there was
a word or a pat of commendation or encouragement. As each one went back to his desk,
he began to study the poems neatly printed on the blackboard.
The poem for Mother's Day was a lesson in appreciation, family attitudes, spelling,
and reading and writing all at the same time, but to the children it wasn't a lesson at
all - just a poem that they were going to use when they were to make a beautiful Mother's
Day card tomorrow.
There I reluctantly left them and went to the first grade room, where the children
put on a movie for me that they had made themselves. The story was about three little
goats who got into all kinds of trouble. The story unfolded itself on a long scroll
that two boys transferred from one cardboard roller to another like a camera film.
Each episode: of the story, printed in large letters, was illustrated by drawings the
children had made. The episodes were connected with songs that all the children sang.
The story was read by individual children, each reading one episode. Ever so often the
children would turn around to make sure that I was enjoying their movie as much as they
were.
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Wouldn't that be a wonderful way to teach Bible stories, or the history of the
church, of the life of Christ, or any number of other study projects?
In the second grade room, I had learned a number of things: the value of a quiet
voice, the time saved in making routine matter habitual (passing papers, correcting
spelling, raising hand, etc.) and that the fine art of appreciation is caught not
taught.
If more of our rehearsals were conducted as these two classes were, and the parents
were invited occasionally to a "Come, See", there would be less complaint about the
lack of parental cooperation. Of that I am sure.
And if the rehearsal room were more attractive to the children, their parents would
not have to insist on attendance. The school I visited is a very poor school, and then
are no funds for extras, but the rooms had a number of pictures attractive to children,
at eye level. There was a "science corner" and one space was devoted to an interest in
reading. There was a small shelf of loan books, and on the wall there was a colored
paper pocket for each child with his name on it. Some were filled with bright colored
paper markers; each bore the name of a book the child had read. Some pockets were full
others had only one. The children were encouraged to tell to the class the story thchad read. Just when the interest was keenest, the teacher would say, "Oh, you'd better
not tell them any more - they may want to read the story themselves, and if you tell
them more, it will spoil the surprise."
This same teacher has a large scrap book of poems she has collected. She calls it
"The Highway of Magical Beauty" and the poems are classified under the headings:
Animals and Insects, Mother Goose Rhymes, Flowers and Trees, Good Health and Safety,
Months-Special Days-Seasons, Nice Manners and Things to Do, Prayers and Lullabys,
Everyday Life-Play-Home-People, Humor-Nonsense, Miscellaneous
And she has a book
of short stories, everyone of which the children know and love. It is called "Favorite
Stories", by Cooper and put out by Southern Publishing Co. of Dallas.
That morning I almost wished that I could be a child again, and go to school to
that teacher, in that room.
BLESSED ARE THE GENEROUS
Mrs. Sherman Crawford has the music in the Beal Heights Church of Lawton, Okla. The
church has only 400 members, and is straining every reserve to improve its equipment.
Yesterday the mail brought a check from Mrs. Crawford for $25.00, the offering at a
special musical service. She enclosed a program. On the back there was a paragraph
about the Choristers' Guild; and she remembered to make a note of the publishers before
sending the program. Thanks to Mrs. Crawford who keeps the doors and windows of her
life open wide, we are able to buy the used addressograph that we so much needed.
WHAT OF THE SUMMER
No more rehearsals until September: Three months to forget about the choir, or
three months to plan and collect material for a finer season than ever before. I do
SO urge you to attend one of the summer schools. Although the classes will bring you
more information and inspiration than you can possibly guess, that is only the beginning of the rewards of attending. The greatest value of all is the give and take of
a group of people all meeting the same problems and building toward the same ends.
After ten days of such association, you will go back to your own corner, your mind
teaming with plans, your courage high, your notebook full of music and methods. Both
Green Lake and Lynchburg are places where we can meet and study together as an informal group. It will be worth any sacrifice to spend ten days of the summer in either
school.
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The enclosed folder is put out by the American Baptist Assembly. We have several
hundred of them at our disposal. If you have an opportunity to distribute some of
them where they would count, please write me for as many as you could use.
ALL IN THE FAMILY
Howard Stampfli is awarding 153 choir pins to his exceptionally faithful choirs, at
Vance Memorial in Wheeling, West Va., and then leaving for Berkeley, California where
he intends to do some graduate work along with some part-time choir work.
J. N. Riley, formerly of Gamble-Hinged, has recently become sales manager of FitzSim-)ns
Company. He asks permission to use the membership list of the May Letter as a mailmg
list for Junior Choir material. I'm sure no one will object to that.
Donald Kettring has been writing a fine series of articles on hymns and hymn-singing,
for his chwch paper "East Liberty Presbyterian Church Week".
Barbara Tuttle sent in some excellent suggestions for Palm Sunday and Mother's Day,
which we will reserve for next season. If I told you now, you would forget long
before Palm Sunday.
Somehow or other the name of Mrs. Haskell Boyter was omitted in the membership list
last month. The address is 1135 Lanier Blvd., N. E., Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. Boyter is a
very important member of the Guild...And if you want your choirs to become important
in the thinking of your church people, come to Lynchburg and take her course in Primary Choirs. It will open your eyes WIDE, as last summer's students well know.
For her Easter program, Dorothy Guy used Kodachrome Slides, obtainable from Church
Craft, St. Louis, Mo. It is worth investigating, if you have a projector.
Jean Maxwell, Meridian, Miss., sent in a copy of the program that her choir presented
in four different communities. AND- she listed the publishers.
The Muhlenberg Press, Philadelphia, Pa., publishes service folders that would be good
to use in the choir scrapbooks. For instance, the Palm Sunday folder has the first
stanza of "All Glory, Laud and Honor", printed in color on the cover, and some
interesting historical facts about the hymn on the back. Alice Hewlett used it for
her Palm Sunday service.
Mrs. Victor Rhein of Ripon, Wis., whose choir will be the demonstration group at Green
Lake this summer sent a copy of an exceptionally well chosen program. The selections
indicate that we will have a superior group of children to work with and observe at
the Green Lake session.
Howard Swan, director of music at Pasadena Presbyterian Church, presented a Choir
Recognition program for the Los Angeles chapter of the Choral Conductors Guild. The
program included a number by each choir, with a member of each explaining the purpose
of the choir and its place in the church. Following the program, Mr. Swan and his
assistant, Mary Pickering, gave short talks, and conducted a tour of the church including the new radio studios, chapel and choir rooms.
Hubert Taylor, Atlanta, Ga., and his choirs have just completed a color television
film which is to be shown at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church next
month. It was filmed by the Protestany Radio Center in Atlanta.
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Alford are holding a summer choir school at their church in Boise,
Idaho. The schedule is from 9 to 11:30 every Friday morning during the summer, and
includes rehearsals for a performance of "Pinafore", general theory, movies, note-book
work, and games.
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George De Hart, Midland, Texas, showed his approval of "church memberships" in the
Guild, and sent $10.00 to make his church the first GUILD-CHURCH.
Is there anyone, planning to attend the A.G.O. convention in San Francisco, who would
be willing to see that Guild folders are distributed to those attending?
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Grace Halverson, Detroit, Mich., "One interesting
aspect
of my work at Divinity Lutheran where I have
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been for 18 years, is the presence in my adult choir
of all former Junior Choir members. One bass boasts
They
are a very closely knit group with high ideals".
that he has sung all four parts.
Lyman Bunnell, Hartford, Conn., "We have 22 junior boys and 16 junior girls. I think
the most important point in getting the boys is to have them in a separate group.
They are proud to belong to a BOY'S choir, but are afraid it's sissy to belong to a
junior choir that is usually predominantly female. --- Many people ask me for advice
on junior choirs. I always tell them to get your book, read it carefully and do
everything that it suggests".
James Berry, Austin, Texas, "If all rehearsals are held after school, when the children
are longing to get out, losses are likely to be higher than if held at other hours. I
believe I have solved that one by holding my 4th thru 6th grade choir rehearsals just
after our church family dinner on Wednesday. The two groups meet at the same time; the
boys rehearse while the girls have a period of supervised recreation. At the close of
the first period, the two choirs change places".
Mrs. Reginald Zepp, Toneytown, Md., "I took over the children's choir last June, starting with a membership of 25, and an age range of 6 to 14. By Christmas the choir had
grown to 40. I divided, and made a Junior choir and a Primary choir, and now have 24
in each. My Junior choir rehearses for 45 minutes before my Adult choir, and. I have
them stay to rehearse the hymns with the Senior choir.--- I have taught the Primaries
action songs, such as Yankee-Doodle, Baa-Baa Black Sheep, Sing a Song of Sixpence, etc,
as published in 'Rime, Rhythm and Song' by Hall and McCreary Co."
One of the questions in the questionnaires
sent to a cross section of our members was
"What are your favorites among the anthems you use"? The following list is the result.
In case of duplicates, the anthem was listed under only one director's name.
*** Franklin Bristol, St. Giles Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Va.
Loving Shepherd - Old French - The Belfry Book - Remick Music Corp. u.-sa
If with all your hearts ye truly seek Him - from Mendelssohn's Elijah u.
How bright appears the morning star - Anthems for Jr. Choir - Westminster Press
*** James Berry, First Baptist Church, Austin, Texas
Anthems for the Junior Choir Book I, Westminster Press
The shepherds had an angel arr. Curry u with descant
In Thee is Gladness
arr. Curry u
Hosanna
Gregor
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Blessed is He that cometh from Gounod's Messe Solenelle
Praise ye the Lord
Jones
u or sa with descant
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Anthems for the Junior Choir Book 2, Westminster Press
David Williams
God my Father
u with choric speech and descant
Curry
Hosanna to the Son of David
The Treble Clif Chorister, Hall and McCreary
u, optional descant
Unto Him will I lift up my eyes Zingarelli
(this is a very good book) J.B.
The Junior Choir Church Year, Flammer
We thank Thee Lord for mother love Rutenbeck
In heavenly love abiding, Mendelssohn - many hymnals
*** Alvin Wooster, First Baptist Church, North Adams, Mass.
If with all your hearts ye truly seek Him - Mendelssohn - G.Schirmer #5896
Brother JamLs Air - arr. Trew - Oxford Univ. Press #1139 u
Father Most Merciful - Franck arr. Deis G. Schirmer #7580 sa with cello
The Belfry Book - K. K. Page Gamble Hinged Co. u and sa
*** Mrs. Winifred Sloop, First Presbyterian Church, Anaheim, Calif.
Ah, dearest Jesus - Bach arr. Bitgood sa
We, thy people praise Thee - Haydn arr. Curry sa
0 Savior Sweet - Bach arr. Dickinson u
Christ went up into the hills - Bitgood sa
Let all things now living - Welsh arr. Davis u with descant
(publishers not given; most of them in Anthems for Jr. Choir, Westminster
Press, I believe) R.K.J.
*** Mrs. Retta Wooden Ehlers
Christ Childs Lullaby - arr. Carl Mueller - G. Schirmer sa and adult
Children of the heavenly father - Swedish arr. Schneider - Flammer u and adult
Crusaders Hymn - arr. Krone Kjos u with descant
Dearest Jesus, holy Child - Larson - Summy sa
Easter Carol - Holler - H. W. Gray u with descant
Eternal source of every joy - Bortniansky Birchard sa
Father, we thank Thee - Hurlburt arr. Wilson - Bourne Co. sa
Friend of little children - Larson - Schmidt sa
Flute Carol - French arr. Couper - J. Fischer sa
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild - Larson - Schmidt sa
Hosanna - Bitgood - H. W. Gray antiphinal
Jesus, our good Shepherd - Brockett-Larson - Birchard sa
Lead us, heavenly Father - Holler - Gray u
Lullaby, little Jesus -• Magney - Gray sa
The loving Savior - Holler - Gray u
Let all thiigs now living - Welsh - Davis E. C. Schirmer u with descant
0 Lord of heaven and earth and sea - Larson - Schmidt sa
A song of praise - Larson - Belwin sa
Shepherd of tender youth - Larson - Schmidt sa
Suffer little children - Coburn - G. Schirmer u
There's a friend for little children - Holler - Gray u
We come with songs of gladness - Larson - Proart sa
Whence is that goodly fragrance - French arr. Baker - Birchard u with descant
Ye fair green hills of Galilee - Larson - Belwin ssa
At Thy feet, our God and Father - Larson - Proart sa
(Mrs. Larson is minister of music in this church, and a member of the Guild)
*** Edwin Karhu, First Methodist,
Create in me a clean heart I see God - Mencher Bourne, Inc.
A Mother's Day Prayer - Thompson
Oklahoma City, Okia.
Mueller sab
699-7th Ave. N.Y. ssa
Summy
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(3t
*** Mrs. Davison, First Congregational, Long
Mother's Day - p. 109 in Singing Worship
Jesu, grant me this I pray - Kitson - Oxford
In faith I calmly rest - Bach arr. Dickinson
Adoration of the flowers - Clokey - Birchard
Robin and the Thorn - Niles - G. Schirmer
To Thee, 0 Lord - Rachmaninoff - J. Fischer
Beach, Calif.
- E. L. Thomas - Abington-Cokesbury
Univ.
- H. W. Gray
combined choirs
*** Alwyn Howell, Southside Baptist, Jacksonville, Fla.
Thee, holy Father, we adore - Arr. Curry - Westminster sa
Lord and Master, lead us onward - Nagle - Westminster sa
Lead me, Lord - Wesley - Hall and McCreary sa
List to the lark - Dickinson - Gray #68
As long as children pray - Youse - Bourne #2006 sa
Savior, teach me - Savage - Presser u
0 lowly sacred stable - Barnes - G. Schirmer 6602
0 Savior sweet - Bach - Gray #198 u or #211 sa
Teach me to pray - Jewitt - Music Pub. Corp. w1810 sa
*** Mrs. Fredrickson, Tuscola St. Methodist Church, Saginaw, Mich.
A Child's Song of Christmas - Graham - Ricordi, two treble groups
Numbers from "Whole World Singing" - Thomas - Flammer
*** Mrs. Vivian A. Johnson, Elim Evangelical Lutheran, Duluth, Minn.
Above the clear blue sky - Lutkin FitzSimons #5008 sa
Come ye blessed of my Father - Mueller - Flammer #86037 sa
Hear my prayer - Stickles - Schroeder #115 sa
Lord we have gathered in Thy temple - Sykes - Presser #21311 sa
Love came down at Christmas - Mueller - Flamer #86036 sa
Praise my soul the King - Farnes - Choral Press #2333 sa
Sweet the moments rich in blessing - Sykes - Presser 421488
*** Mrs. Cecil Stewart, First Methodist Church, Alliance, Ohio
Give ear unto me - Marcello - Gray #1522 sa
Jesus in the manger - Shimmin - Oxford Press #1071 u
For the beauty of the earth - York - Carl Fischer CM549 u or sa
Dear Christians, praise God evermore - Kindermann - Concordia LW5O u, 2 violins
The Inn at Bethlehem - Dickinson - Gray sa with baritone solo
*** Dr. Austin Lovelace, First Presbyterian Church, Greensboro, N. C.
Let all the world in every corner sing - Porter Methodist Hymnal
Come together let us sing - Bach - E. C. Schirmer #1001 u
Silver Lamps - Brook - Oxford Univ. Press #1134 u
Christ the Lord is risen today - Eichhorn - Gray #2124 u with descant
Song for Easter - Eichhorn - Gray #2057 u
As Joseph was awalking - Shaw - E. Arnold #120 ss
Jesous Ahatonhia - arr. Willan - Farris Co., London #1589
In Bethlehem - Shimmin - E. Arnold #625 u with descant
A song of praise - Thiman - Banks and Son #1193 u
The Shepherds Noel - Ingham - Banks #1289 u with descant
A Christmas Vision - Baynon - Banks #1429 u
*** Dr. Federal Lee Whittlesey, Highland Park Methodist, Dallas, Texas
A Child's Thanksgiving - Baynon - Oxford Univ. Press u
God Who touchest earth with beauty - Mueller - Morris u or sa
God watches over all the earth - Kettring - Gray u
An Awakening - Robson - Novello u
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*** Edward Johe, First Congregational, Columbus, Ohio
Psalm 84 - Hernreid - Concordia CH60 u
For the beauty of the earth - York - C. Fischer CM549 sa
Rise up 0 men of God - Scull - Novello 1140 u or ss
Prayer of the Norwegian Child - Kountz - G. Schirmer 8238 sa
Long hast thou stood, 0 church of God - arr. Davis - E. C. Schirmer 1765 u and desc.
Through all the year - arr. Ritchie - Birchard #30 u with descant
*** Marvin Beecher, Boston Ave. Methodist, Tulsa, Okla.
Hasten swiftly, hasten softly - Kountz - Galaxy sa
Rise up early - Kountz - Galaxy sa
Rise, hope of ages - Treharne - Huntzinger, Inc.
Sing songs of praise - Gaul - Gray u
*** Mary Louise Shore, Augsburg Lutheran Church, Winston-Salem, N. C.
Be Thou my vision - Gillette - Kjos 8006 u and descant
Blessed are they - Staley - Flamer 84307 satb with sa
Jesu, joyaunce of my heart - arr. Akerman - Novello 75 sa
Give ear unto me - Marcella - Gray 1522 ss
*** John Gabbert, Redford Ave. Presbyterian, Detroit, Mich.
I so often wonder - Jones - Fischer 522 u
Little Christ Child, sweet and holy - Williams - Flammer - 86072 sa
Angels ever bright and fair - Handel - Presser 21370 ss
*** Ruth Rudebock, First Presbyterian, Baldwin, L. I., N. Y.
Your song to Jesus raise - Robson - Novello H.C.22 u
A festival chime - Hoist - Galaxy #8 satb, use as u
Savior, teach me day by day - Holler - Gray 1835 u
Our Shepherd - Holler - Gray 1593 u
The Lord is my shepherd - Smart - Gray 1512 sa
Make a joyful noise - Mueller - Flammer 86032 sa
Far-off lands; Song of the Saints; Twinkling Stars - Episcopal Hymnal
I love to tell the story; All beautiful the march of days - Presbyterian Hymnal
*** Mrs. Harlan Kirk, First Methodist, Appleton, Wis.
There is a green hill far away - Gower - Hymnal
Junior Choir Church Year Book - Rutenbeck - Flamer
Great Songs of Faith - Krone - Kjos
*** Donald Kettring, East Liberty Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Gloriot Forever - Rachmaninoff - Boston Music Co. 1030 sa
Jesus, blest Redeemer - Grieg-Black - Gray 1687 u
The Shepherd's Psalm - Mueller - Flammer 86042 sa
1952 - 1953
HAVE YOU SENT IN YOUR MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL? 1952 -
1953
About 85 of our 400 members have already sent their dues. If the other 315 realized
how much it would simplify the matter of buying paper, and arranging for mimeographing, and making addressing plates!
if you realized, you would send yours in
right now, before you even finish reading this Letter. Then you won't have to use the
excuse you hear so often from the children "I forgot".
There are already 50 new memberships, coming from the four corners of the United States
and even from Alaska.
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PREVIEW for SUMMER 1953
I have already started the wheels in motion for something VERY SPECIAL for next summer,
and want the Choristers' Guild members to have the first chance to share it.
The Royal School of Church Music at Canterbury, England has agreed to hold a special
two weeks course for us next June, with classes on the boy voice, choir organization,
liturgical music, and history of church music. Another two weeks will be spent in
visiting the famous cathedrals and choir schools throughout England. The choir schools
are still in session thru June, and we will have a chance to see them in full operation.
As a group of American church musicians, we will be given an intimate insight that
would be impossible under any other circumstances.
Preliminary plans call for crossing the Atlantic by ship, with plenty of time to get
acquainted enroute, and to absorb some interesting information on the places and the
people we are to visit.
The cost will be kept as low as possible - from previous experience, I should judge
between eight hundred and nine hundred dollars - The total time about six weeks.
Steamer reservations should be made this summer, because of the enormous demand for
low-cost passage, and the number will have to be limited. This is your chance to be
first on the list. A deposit of $10.00 puts you at the head of the list. If the
response from the Guild is not enough to form a minimum group, the invitation will be
extended to church and school musicians in general. But you have the first chance.
I am definitely interested in the Canterbury Summer School, and enclose my check
for $10.00 to reserve a place in the group.
Name
Street
City and State
Position
I prefer to travel by ship
I can leave on June 1
I can be away six weeks
plane
: not before
: not longer than
Make check payable to:
Ruth K. Jacobs
and send to
204 N. Second St.
Memphis 3, Tenn.
-8-
(date)

Notes - Choristers Guild

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