Quigley Preparatory Seminary - La Petit Seminaire Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Through the Gregonan Plarn Chant chorr to whrch every senror belongs the senror class becomes acquannted wrth the plarn unaccompanred chants whuch have been tradrtuonal In Church lrturgy smce ancrent tImes It IS our duty to srng the proper of the Hrgh Mass on Sundays and Holy Days In the Cathedral d It frttrng and proper that we who are to be the prrests of the archdrocese should srng as semmarrans In Holy Name Cathedral the frrst church of the archdrocese The drffrcultres but wrth good reason the musrc dedrcated to the pralse and worshrp of God should be as perfect and as exalted as possrble The culmrnatron of the Gregorran chorr s year of worlc comes In the servrces of Holy VVeelc To spend trme In the preparatron and Slnglng of the chants IS sometrmes a SGCTIFICS but one for whIch we wrll be rrchly rewarded both In the Mayorsemrnary and In the prresthood ln the Gregorran chant many new frelds of melody are opened up because there are erght regular and SIX extra modes of scales Instead of the two to whrch our modern melodrc system IS lrmrted The themes of the srmple chants are often extracted and around them are burlt much larger and grander works for polyphonrc chorr and even for full orchestra Our whole system of both musIcal tone and musrcal notatron sprang up In large part from the Gregorran To the srmple beauty of the notes are added the lofty Ideas expressed In the words The chorr really prays In song wrth a drfferent prayer and song for every drstrnct part of every Mass Under the leadershrp of Father Chambers the chorr has Improved Itself even further and wrll Contlnue to do so FfHHHIHN PlHIl lIHHNl IHUVH

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e Le Petrt Semrnarre n w rn s thrrty frrst year as the otfrcral publrcatron ol the school began as a srngle typewrrtten copy rn 1912 and contrnued thus for the next three years ln 1915 Raymond O Brren former Sprrrtual Drrector at Qurg ley Semrnary and present pastor of Blessed Sacrament Parish edrted Number One Volume One of Le Petrt Semrnarre From the quarterly edrtrons nn whrch form rt orrgmally appeared consrstrng ol student edrtorrals poetry essays and hctron wrth a specral graduate edrtron rn une the yearbook became an annual rn 1933 because ol the Increased cost ol produc tron For the growrng magazrne The three key men rn the productron of thus yearbook were the Edrtor Busrness Manager and Photographer As the Edrtor ulrus Klose had the responsrbrlrty of plannrng the book :ts theme drvrsrons Fr Thomas V Lrske and assrsted by the wrrters of the staff Bob Sponder Paul Schwartz Tom Henry and Tom Lynch The brographers thus year were Donald Kulleck and George Dyer Clrltord Bergrn and Tom House formulated the Class Chronrcle ohn Serdel as Busrness Manager dr rected the hnancral work Hrs job was to see that surfrcrent money was rarsed through the sale of ads and patrons by the students ln thus he was ably assrsted by Anthony Chylewskr The heavy responsr brlrty ot recordrng the money and handlrng the general hnances was aptly handled by the Treasurer Richard Feller As the Photographer and Engraving Editor Ray Adams had the task of takrng and mountrng all the prctures Hrs long experrence proved rnvaluable Tom House assisted Ray rn thrs large task upervrsrng and co ordrnatrng all these actrvrtres Father Lrske drawrng on hrs vast experrence with the magazine has gurded the start through Its edrtorral and business problems Hrs ten year servrce wrth the yearbook actually one thrrd of nts existence has been longer than that ol any other moderator Mentron of the yearbook cannot be made wrthout thrnkrng ol the guldrng Force behrnd rt Father Lrske Th It . , . li! O . , . , I - , , .. .-.. .. , 1 , , I J A . , . and arrangement, directed in this task by A f I 1 I ' J I 1 I 1 I' , . , S v t - . . , f , .

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EHlHlHHHl Back In 1918 Hrs Excellency Arch bishop Mundelern requested Father Phrlrp Mahoney and Abbe Bourget to organuze a boys chorr lor the Archdrocese f Chrcago to sung at the Holy Name Cathedral The boys were prcxed From the hrst and second year students at Quigley Within a lew months they sang at the Cathedral at the Cclemn Hrgh Mass under the name of the Qt George Choral Socrety For twenty sux years the boys have been slngung at the Cathedral and they have become world famous vnce a boy s soprano vouce wrll fade and drop soon after he has reached four teen years of age or often before the chorr at Quigley has to be reorganazed every year Thus means that the hard job of tramrng new boys must be carrred on eac and every year 1931 changes occured rn the char Father Edwrn Hoover alter many years of musucal trarmng In Europe became the conductor of Savnt George Choral Socrety ln the same year Monsugnor Morrrson changed the name ol the chour to the Cathedral Chorrsters It rs strll known by that very name Father Meter who succeeded Father Hoover rn 1941 has followed rn Father Hoover s footsteps by contrnurng to brmg fame to the chorr On March 7 ol thus year the chorr sang wrth orchestral ac companrment the Massa Solemnrs F Nrcola Montana In honour ol Chrcagos newly elected Cardunal who had just recently returned from Rome lncudentally the orchestratuon for thrs Mass was drawn up specrally by Nrcola Montanr hrmself For the Cathedral Chorusters Also present at the Mass were the semmarran chorrsters from Mundelern the prrests chorr and the already mentroned symphony orches tra lhrs certarnly rs vrewed as one of the greatest days nn the history ol the chorr X..