Part of long article discussing the decoration and music planned for 1Christmas Day worship services across the city. “The music will be classical rather than operatic, and will include a new mass especially composed for the occasion. Professor Schmitz will preside at the organ, and the solos will be rendered by Madame Chome, Miss Wirtz, H. Schmitz and Mr. Sohst, assisted by a volunteer choir of forty voices.”

“…and the musical exercises, under the direction of Professor Gustavus Schmidt [Schmitz], with Mme. Chome as first soprano, supported by a large and well chosen choir, were exceptionally fine.”

“…During the service Mandanici’s Mass, in G major, was rendered very nicely by the choir and chorus attacked [sic] to the church, under the conduct of Mr. G. Schmitz, the organist, and several solos and trios were sung, of which only one or two can be noticed. At the offertory Verdi’s ‘O Yesu Dei’ was sung by Mme. Chome and Messrs. Schmitz and Sohst; at the ‘elevation,’ Mrs. Gros [sic] sang Proch’s ‘Ecce Panis,’ Mr. H. Schmitz playing the accompaniment upon the French horn.”