chur hgoers wl States » declared to id-fash nents have been prot late the disposition ainst greater is not, say good people, ' citing to mothers’ time church i the contrary LEAT INT SEN EATTEEC SCX bureaus have been established epe- elally to carry on negotiations look- ing to the engagement of choir sing ors Some singers are so much in demand that they sing even three « hur and an amusing lengths to which to secure coveted forded constructed after ginging out similar engag unobsers Hp 3 hurch down urch the great average f« music {8 an img ant, not to essential, f srcises WW though, is in some ‘ularly faghionable have the musi cal numbers completely overshadow the sermon prayers and sverytl But for all that there exists wide differen opinion part musie shou pl services there ing the year church goers fitting and should don of worship sion is, of evotional ex plain about, position the this tor pext to tb vocalisls, in making the Easter mugic Organ These monste with thelr deep tones rich mendous volume seem to provide background for ths lody of the Easter ant me surch that is very A the iden! soar ing me Nowadave every ambitious aspires to pipe organ 1 af ¥.1 but here again t possible i ¥ ex churches to decide for $i iB by no means of agant anniversgar most joyous church that the ¥i obsery. ance shoul : ne Joicing and prails in song § tently the pastors and musical di rector 8 of down ind doy more Easter 1 I 1 ms t} other rose i the pasts 4 i ) est inter * % 3 13 tha g hes Easter Church m which fin its heat tion on Easte natural all churches up and attention to an to those and with ratl h wis of the keen announce their exemnlifi undergone marked development during the past d It is i0zZen well withir he memory of tion wh was congregation singing by the many of in small and rural districts, and just here ba it confessed that good many peo ple who to this day declare that it is more devo tional and inepiring than the solos of the high est salaried singers. But, be that as it may, the soloiets have supplanted the congregation as singers in practically every city ehurch and In many of those in the smaller towns. The first entry of the soloists into this fleld cama when one, two, or a quartette of singers In each congregation who possessed the best voices were induced to specialize to the extent of pre paring one authem for rendition each Sunday, as well as. in effect, leading the congregational singing. Or, in some churches where the con gregation was not strong vocally or the members were diffident about engaging in the chorus sing ing, there was organized a choir of anywhere from eight to sixteen members that bore the whole burden of the musical responsibility just as do the vested choirs In many of the Epis copal churches. Under this plan the singers have almost invariably been members of the church where they sing and as a rule they have given thelr services free or have received very modest sums for their services, While the above mentioned plan or one in which cholr and congregational singing is com- bined is still in vogue in thousands of churches all over the country, a further step In musical development has been taken by most of the prominent ard wealthy city churches. In thede places of worship one may hear on Easter morn ing music of as fine a quality as can be listened to in any grand pera bourse. The secret lies in the fact that in these fashionable churches the music is provided by highsalaried musicians who are engaged solely for their musical ability and without reference to anything else. Indeed. since good volces have come to be demanded above all else we find that not once in a dozen cases 18 a highly-pald choir singer a member of the church in which she sings. Mayhap she is not a member of any church. There are also well-known instances in which Catholic singers appear regularly in Protestant churches and vice versa. Similarly the pipe organist of the twentieth century fashionable city church is chosen solely because of his musical ability and not because he is a fellow-churchmsn, which be probably is not. Even more odd in the eyes of some folk with old. time ideas is the system of recruiting the orches tras of the leading churches. But, perbaps, te pause for a moment, the reader had not realized that an orchestra Is now considered essential in every fashionable church. Such is the case, how. ever, and in a majority of cases the musicians } the pres music in our ch This chorus worshipers is still in we the smaller churches, particularly those towns there are a who comprise a church orchestra are employed during the week in the orchestra of some local theater. And these orchestras: have to bold re hearsals for their church work, just as they do for their theater work. Just before Easter the rehearsals are unusually exacting, for the orches tra in each church is called upon to play the ac- companiments for vocal selections that are un usually numerous and exceptionally elaborate in character. Like as not, too, there will be flute obligatos and violin obligatos. Indead, in some churches a violin solo is now a feature of every Sunday program, and even cornet solos are not unknown in such environment. The Easter music In a fashionable church ia likely to cost a pretty peany-—almost as much as the special floral decorations, mayhap, and that is saying a good deal. For one thing the orches tra is a pretty expensive luxury, which can be appreciated when we figure that there are pre sumably seven or nine men who receive, say, $4 or 85 per Sunday. The organist, if be is an accomplished artist, receives perhaps twice as much as any member of the orchestra. After all, however, it is the vocal soloists who run up the expense bills in these churches which are always crowded--partiy, let us suspect, because the music is so fine. The cost of church singing of the professional class hes advanced In recent years even more rapidly than the cost of living. Thefe are yet to be found professional singers of some ability who are singing In churches for $6 per Sunday, but all the more prominent soloists have ad vanced far beyond thet figure for their services Indeed, there are church soloists in New York and other large cities who receive salaries of $5,000 a year, and in some instances such salaries are pald by churches that have never been heard of by the average citizen outside of the city In which they are located. For her $100 a week A cholr “star” is required to sing once and more likely twice on Sunday and is supposed to attend at least one rehearsal —say on Friday. However, she has plenty of leisure for teaching music. if #he cares to do so, or for accepting outside con: cert engagements If the condition of her voles will permit. Indeed, she can make of her church singing simply a “sides line” The Easter season sees the culmination of an ever-existing rivalry between churches for solo iste of marked ability, for, be It known, choir singers of the first rank are not much more numerous than operatic of the first emi nence. Of late regular or employment s designed clally with to the iiremenis pre which It 8 to De sented by the instaiied beginning work upon ch the builider mu architecture of the chur presented in the fresc other features of the regan is made up of parts and the great sonorous sound on E case of the largest organs, ea thirty two feet in length The Easter season always brings into especial song service,” anoiler compara activities. pre prominence the tively Such 1 > La developmen of burch wonid wholly musical in most churches recent ‘ i a service ag ils Dame imply one form or another and that in course, song services are held in churches all through the year, but those at Easter have espe cial significance and present more than ordinar The moet popular bour In the southern cities where Easter The First Easter Day BY STANLEY WATERLOO. 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