St Clare High School - Je Me Souviens Yearbook (Woonsocket, RI)

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XIF SOUN IE Music for the Klng The reed organ in chapel had sung its last chord, For fifty years it had fulfilled its duties bravely. meeting all the exigencies of the moment. from sol- emn marches for feast days. to sad dirges for the departed. with its subdued but not unmelodious plaintive strains, And now. its successor had arrived: the pipe organ everyone had been looking forward to since the present chapel was built, but which had been considered as one of those vague possibilities best envisioned in a remote future-until three years ago. l-ast November, the hopes of all music lovers in our convent were realized, A small Casavant was to be installed. The little reed organ was definitely ushered out of its place. but the new organ was not so easily ushered into place. ln fact, it was quite a few days before we saw it as it stands now. 2:1 +R--

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SG Ill Tht first lHlll'l1'IllOHS yu hid of IIS mrrly tl yytre huge striw plcktd critts shtptd ltlst long toflms yxhlth lmtd the hallvmy lttdmg to thaptl Mort than ont of us held htr brtath as she Bled through tht mrrow passage way and trttd hard not to thlnk of subttrrtnmn vtults The chapel too was partly trtnsformtd IFIIO 1 workshop yxlth panels md boxts Ind plpes strtyxn tbout D1 by day yyt xutntssed Hllll nxt md 1dm1r1t1on tht sluleton of the orgm btmg pl-.ttd togtthtr Fmally tt stood tomplttt ready to breathe tts lnsptr mg mtlodxts through sxx hundred and mntty tvso prpts commandtertd by tltvtn stops A modest organ as organs go but a gem for our chapel The formal mauguratlon yy as marked by a concert gxytn by Mothtr St Omer dt Luxtull Chottt tomposltlons ol Bath Dtthler Yon and othtrs soft and cltar tn quallty tht strlng tones swttt ind pure as well as the mdr Vltlllill md ptnttrallng sound oi tht oboe all wtre dtmonstrattd ln such seltc tlons as Yon s Pastoralt Rtmsky Korsakovs lt Vol du Bourdon md t Hltrs It Ruxsstau ll mustt tltyttts tht soul md l7flI1gSUI'lL ln tune. yylth Qlotl yyt tan only rtyoltt it tht tequtsntton our tonxtntth.Jptlh1sm.1dt tnxts new C asavant Jumor Mosuout R HAft1s1toUc11 41 A REFUSRI l here was no YOICL dld call Ht wnll not ltnd hrs tar Must C od r ent from tll A mtrt 1Hrtttnsttoht.1r A btrth Ht xx mls 1 blt It may bt worth tht pun I hit try lrom C hrlst s sweet 1 s ann lt s Ill tn y Botkcxxttr 4 -H+ fc- 'XII2 MIS Q UV THIS . , ' , - - 1 ' 1 ' 1 1 r 1 1 4 - 1 1 1 I H I A H K HL L i H H ' X' V L it H I K V L Y' L H X' L Hs K I HA H Y 5 l L 3? Y V' Y H Y' Hk'L'H V. 1 Y H t L A I V V H A H H H L ' 1 .1 ' 1 4 1 1- r ' H 11 1 1 i 1 . D ' H Y l Yl H N delighted the hearers and revealed the organ at its best. The high silvery' tones, U' 5 I I V H I H B HH A H' 3 H ' '- L 1 1 ' A 1 1. 1 1 1 k 1 ' R 1 1 , D-tl'-'q l .K H H Y 5' H 1 I . H ' H Y- i Y H ' V x 1 . '3 ew, ' 1 H H H H 'H H 'J t A . - 1 . A : Ag ' ,' . ' 'aini J. 1 ' 1 L , ' 1