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

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ing that the composition was com- posed expressly for its premier per- formance to be sung at the Solemn Pontifical Mass which was said commemorating the Centennial of Holy Name Cathedral Monsignor Meter also studied Gregorian Chant completed his studies, he returned to Quigley and took up the direction and leadership ofthe Cardinal s Cathedral Chornsters from this we can under stand why the choir always sounds so flawless We can understand that since Plas Chant Cho Ca dinal s Cathedral Cho sters At the Cathedral e ery Su day Missa Solemnis he studied in France under Dom Ga yard at the famous center of Sacred Chant LAbbaye St Pierre Solesmes par Suble Besides these World fa mous places Monsignor also studied at Marialaach in Germany Montser rat in Spain and at Quarr on the lsland of Wight in England He also had a course in directing under Bruno Walter here in America When he had Monsignor has heard and played none but the best music all his life he chooses none but the best music for his choir to sing Monsignore Refice has written many beautiful Masses and most of them are in the choir s repertoire Some of them are the fol lowing MissaJubilaei Missa in Hon orem Beatae Teresiae ab lnfante Jesu Missa Regina Martyrum Missa si

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Tenors hit high ones with eose. Bosses mouth their vowels. Monsignor Meter's Glee Club, est Mother Fairest Bring Flowers of the Fairest More particularly she is praised by the two choirs of our little seminary the choristers in their Masses and hymns dedicated to her the Gregorian choir in the propers of the Masses of her feast days The Cardinal s Cathedral Choristers Quigley is indeed fortunate in hav ing for its music director the Very Reverend Monsignor Charles N Me ter whose talent has made him one of the foremost clerical figures in the field of music Monsignor Meter has the singular privilege of directing the O choir in singing the compositions of the very men under whom he studied in Rome He studied at ll Pontificio Instituto di Musica Sacra with some of the finest masters of church music Abate Feretti Abate Sunol Mcnsig nore Rafaelle Casimir: and the re nowned composer of Liturgical music Monsignore Licinio Refice On the occasion of the centennial of the Cathedral of the Holy Name Mon signore Refice composed one of his most splendid works Omnes Gentes Quascumque Fecisti Venient lAll Nations Whomsoever You Have Made Comel and dedicated it to Monsignor Meter and his Choir add Q s K fx, . 11 tn . . . . . . . 1 1 . ,1 . . - 1 . . . . . I, . . . . . . . . . . . 11 - . , 1 , 1 1 1 1 - - 1 1 . 1 . 1 ' . 11 ' 1 ' . . . 1, ' 1 ' 1 1 ' - w J

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in Honorem Beatae Mariae de Mat- tias, Missa in Honorem Sanctae Clarae Assisensisg and Missa in Hon- orem Assumptionis Beatae Mariae Virginis. The choir also sings two of Pietro Yon's Masses, Missa Solemnis, and Missa Regina Pacis. Other Masses include: Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli 1 and two of Nicola Montani's Masses: Missa Festivag and Missa Solemnis, which the choir has made world famous. Yon has also written music to the sequentia of the Easter Mass, Dominica Resurrectionisn, and in setting Victimae Paschali to music, he has captured the hearts of director, chorus, and audience: it is for this reason that each Easter the choir sings this beautiful sequence. A few years before he died, Cardinal Archbishop Mundelein was visiting Rome when one day he walked into the Sistine Chapel. The choir hap- pened to be practising a new Tu Es Petrus . lt had been composed by Perosi, a celebrated composer of church music. The cardinal was so impressed that he asked the director whose it was. The director, upon tell- ing the composer's name, revealed the fact that the composition was not permitted to be sung elsewhere than in the Sistine Chapel. However, this did not discourage the cardinal from seeeking permission to use the piece: hence, he went to the Pope, At first the Pope was reluctant, but He finally gave permission to Cardinal Munde- f Dcnly in chapel Messo Cantoto Fr Wogc k reheo ses fourth yeor 'S 1