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NEW YORK, APRIL 20TH, 1381.
No. 6
SCENE FROM THE THIRD ACT OF OFFENBACH'S LAST WORK, " LES CONTES D'HOFFMAN."
erick Archer. Mr. Browne is engaged at an increased salary at the Clinton
" LES CONTES D'HOFFMAN."
Congregational Church, where he was formerly engaged as organist.
UR large picture represents a stirring scene between Antonia and Dr. Avenue
The selection of singers in Plymouth Church, which of late years has been
Miracle, devotees of music, and characters in Jacques Offenbach's latest in
hands of Henry Camp, the musical director, has been made this year
opera, "Les Contes D'Hoffman," an opera recently produced with great suc- by the
the Music Committee. Miss Hattie Simms, the present soprano, goes to
cess in Paris after its author's death. We have already given a complete the Washington Avenue Baptist Church at an increased salary. Miss Emma
account of the opera in this paper.
F . Howe, of Boston, has been engaged in place of Miss Simms. Miss Stuts-
man, who has led the alto voices for several years, has not been re-engaged.
CHANGES IN CHURCH CHOIRS AND ORGANISTS.
The Music Committee, regretting the necessity of parting with Miss Stuts-
E organists and soloists of the various churches of this city and man, will give her a complimentary concert in May. Mrs. Norman is the
JL Brooklyn date their engagements from May 1, and by the beginning new alto. George Werrenrath has been re-engaged as tenor, and Mr.
of April most of the changes have been decided upon and contracts made for Morowski will be the bass soloist.
At Trinity Church, the boy choir will remain under the charge of the
the ensuing year.
The most important changes occur this year at St. Francis Xavier's organist, Arthur H. Messiter. The only change will be that C. A. McPher-
Roman Catholic and St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church, this city, and son will lead the tenors.
Samuel P. Warren, the organist and director of music of Grace Church,
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. At St. Francis Xavier's it has been decided,
upon entering the new edifice, adjoining the old one in West Sixteenth will make no change in his quartette, which consists of Miss Ida W. Hubbell,
street, to change the musical arrangements. A chorus choir, with a quar- soprano; Miss Anna Drasdil, alto; George Simpson, tenor, and Adolph
tette of leaders, will replace the quartette which has hitherto furnished the Sohst, basso.
The instrumental music at St. Thomas's Church will be furnished for
music. The services of Dr. William Berge, the organist of the church for
over thirty years, and of the quartette employed by him, have been dis- the ensuing year by George W. Warren, the director and organist; P. A.
pensed with, and Edward J. McGoldrick has been selected as organist and Schucker, assistant organist, and A. F. Toulmin, harp player. The double
conductor. His choir has not been entirely selected, but Miss Rockwell chorus of forty voices will be led by Miss Marie C. Schelle, solo soprano;
will probably lead the soprano voices, Miss Kenyon the altos, and Mr. Perin Miss Emily Winant, solo contralto; Frederick W. Jameson, solo tenor, and
Dr. L. L. Danforth, solo bass. These, except the first named, are reen-
the bassos.
At St. Mark's, in which Frederick F. Mixller is organist, the leading- gagements.
There will be a change in the case of the soprano soloist of the Church
singers have all been changed the last year. Mr. Miiller has thought that
his choir showed a lack of harmony. Since the announcement of the of the Holy Trinity, but no selection has been made yet. The other mem-
changes this lack of harmony has extended to the relations between himself bers of the choir will remain as at present: Mrs. G. W. Delano, contralto;
and the former leaders, although he wishes it understood that the members M. L. Bartlett, basso; A. R. Parsons, organist, and George G. Rockwood,
of the church Music Committee (and not he) are responsible for the changes. tenor and leader.
St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church will have the services next year of H.
The quartette for this year will be Miss Bella Cole, soprano; Miss Crane,
Bialda, organist; Henrietta Conradi, soprano; Octavie Gomelin, alto; H.
alto; Herbert L. Keyes, tenor, and M. M. Weed, basso.
In Plymouth Church, also, some feeling has been aroused by the exten- Romeyn, tenor, and a basso who has not yet been engaged.
At the Church of the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, no change has been
sive changes made. Henry Eyre Browne, the organist, gives place to Fred-
O