' Musical Straws '

New Zealand Tablet, 16 July 1908, Page 22

' Musical Straws '

The world keeps moving. So does the Oxford Movement — in unexpected places, too. Through .ritual many reach .the truths that religious ceremonies express oj- symbolise. It is, of course, no surprise to see the ' Aye Maria ' (Hail Mary) advertised as a vocal solo for last Sunday at the Anglican .ProCathedral, Dunedin. But our Philadelphia contemporary, the ' Catholic Standard,' prints, in its jssue of April 25,' ,1908, following curiously interesting list of ' Musical Straws' (from Easter Programmes in Local Protestant Churches '.: — • , ' Fiftieth Baptist Church. —Gounod's .St. Cecilia Mass, morning and evening. ' Wharton street Memorial Methodist and St. Paul's Presbyterian Churches. —Union service, in which the " Gloria " from Mozart's Twelfth Mass was sung. ' Union Methodist Church.—" Inflammatus " from the

" Stabat Mater." 'Calvary Methodist. — Mozart's Twelfth "Gloria." - ' Bethany Presbyterian. — Haydn's " Gloria," march " Ponti-

ficale."

1 Second Presbyterian.—" Te'J^eum," " Resurrexit." ' Oxford Presbyterian. — " Tantum Ergo." ' West Green Street Presbyterian. — " Gloria." ' St. Peter's P. E., Germantown.— " Te Deutn," " Kyrie' " "Gloria," "Sanctus." ' " -.'

'St. Luke's Reformed Episcopal.— " Te Deutn," " Gloria in Excelsis," " Jubilate," " Gloria Tibi," " Sursum Corda," " Sanctus," " Gloria Patri," " Benedictu Anima'jMea." . ' Park Congregational.—" Regina Coeli." ' ,