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

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trauned young boys a selected group of professuonal men sungers and the skullful requurements of an organust found un Dr Axel Norder what else wull you fund but musucal perfectuon9 The Gregoruan Chant Chour One of the most strukung features about the Hugh Mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Name us uts Plaun Chant or Gregoruan Chant Chour fo al though Gregoruan chant must be sung at Hugh Mass there are few churches that have thus kund of chour The Quugley Plaun Chant Chour under the durectuon of Reverend Ruchard J Wou cuk pours forth thus beautuful church musuc The chour uses the Luber Usualus the book whuch contauns the renov ated notatuon of chant reorganuzed and expurgated by the monks of Solesmes Thus us the authentuc Greg oruan chant used un the Church ut us thus chant whuch plays necessaruly an umportant role un all the Church s sol emn ceremonues Hustorucally chant provuded the unspuratuon for the burth and development of harmony and fugured musuc Monsugnore Refuce us an excellent example of a present day musucuan who has used thus foun taunhead of musucal unspuratuon Father Woucuk receuved hus munor semunary traunung at Quugley Prepara tory Semunary and most of hus knowledge of chant from Monsugnor Joseph Kush at the major semunary of Saunt Mary of the Lake Mundeleun lt was evudent to everyone at the magor semunary that he had a very strong love for and apprecuatuon of Gregoruan Chant He organuzed small glee clubs for varuous specual occasuons whule he was at Saunt Marys and every tume one of hus groups per formed they were warmly receuved 34 It was futtung therefore that he was placed at Quugley to teach chant Workung wuth the senuors he has struven to produce a musuc worthy of the great Sacrufuce of the Mass for thus we are very proud of hum The results at the Hugh Mass at the Cathe dral on Sundays are most gratufyung and one us even forced to remember that all the musuc us sung a cap pella that us wuthout any accom panument whatsoever Yet preparung for the Sunday Mass us not hus enture uob Begunnung early un the thurd quarter he starts to pre pare the senuors for Holy Week at the Cathedral They perform approxu mately seven tumes three of these tumes they sung the Duvune Offuce at the famous Tenebrae servuces Thus us the Duvune Offuce whuch the pruest must say dauly There often aruse extraordunary occasuons when the Last year for example at the Cate chetucal Congress he durected the chour un the mystucally beautuful Salve Reguna all un attendance found the performance unspurung Once a year at the Quugley concert too Father Woucuk and Monsugnor Meter pool resources to provude the vastly entertaunung musuc Monsugnor Meter durects the orchestra and the glee club Father Woucuk durects a small specual group of the Schola Cantorum and also the accorduon band Through the Communuty sungung her prauses the chorusters sungung Masses and hymns deducated to her and the chanters sungung to her on her feast days and Sundays the Blessed Vurgun Mary us actually play ung an unfluentual role un the luves of each and every Quugley semunaruan . . Q r - . , . - . . .' choir is called upon to sing the chant.

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Iein to have the piece sung by the Cardinal's Cathedral Choristers. Our choir then, is the only choir in the world other than the Sistine choir which is permitted to sing Tu Es Petrus and this is but one of the unique privileges accorded to the choir One of the striking things about the choir is the fact that though the average choir boys voice lasts but about a year and a half the choir year who are acceptable, by putting them systematically among the older mem- bers of the choir: in this manner the boys gradually learn the many Masses and hymns For the most part the singing done is in four parts there fore the boys are divided into altos and sopranos As the older boys voices begin to change they are dropped and in this way the choir is constantly kept fresh As for the ten ors and bassos Monsignor has hand Fothe s stll eheo sng Mo sgno goes nst e ol in and year out stays perfect never revealing the fact that voices are changing Each year Monsignor audi tions the freshman and in the begin ning of the year he instructs those picked twenty men who are both pleasant voiced and well schooled in liturgical singing When you combine a well taught musician director a group of well I

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UNI fi Each year the heavy odor of cold cream and the dazzlung glare of stage lnghts takes on a new slgnufncance for about a dozen of our confreres These are the fellows who call themselves the Quigley Players What they do IS generally known why they do ut IS not Certaunly It IS not the purpose of the semlnary to produce other Charles Laughtons lnor as some wag suggested IS ut the asm of our make up men to produce other Ethel Barrymoresl Just as cer talnly It IS not the place of the priest to plrouette before has people Why then should there be such a group? The nmmedlate answer of entertain ment IS not sufflclent to explain the long hours of practice spent by a group of amateurs who have no par ticular desire to glve an amateurlsh performance There have been occa sions when one could flnd the sem: nary bulldrng black as pitch with the exception of a blazung stage on whnch a group struggled to accomplnsh a convnnclng scene The questnon re curs why do they do lt? 3 my The reason they glve IS this A priest wall always be before h s people Hrs greatest nmplement IH his work of llftnng the Ideals of others n xt to hls life Itself will be hs speech Men luke Hitler know well the magic force of the spoken word and have used at to produce dssas trous results The prnest must luve and speak as a sign of contradlc tlon to these men Nor has the sem: narnan chosen to swell the ranks of those who amuse and divert the world Rather as a priest of the fu ture h wnshes to asslst and guide has people In the awfully real drama of scends both of these Through the expressiveness of the spoken word he 5 Tbgfgjfffm 'JJ lg 35 A Q ' QUL 0 N x x . . I i e 1 . . ' . i' . . life and death and love, which tran- ' - ' 5 I 22303 . . .- Lf' Jr-X . . . . Q, X4 . . . 6 Q I N . . . 1 Cf 0 I ' ' T ' 'V Rl NL