Word: choiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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World Music Festivals (Sun. 1:05 p.m., CBS). Haydn's The Creation by Amsterdam's Toonkunst Choir...
...Nerve. This was no small thing to say, for St. Mary's Paulist Choir is one of the best in the world. It was well known in 1914, when twelve-year-old Eugene O'Malley first thought of joining it. He had read about its triumphal tour of Europe two years before, when it sang before Pope Pius X.* For years young O'Malley had been practicing the piano and going to almost every concert and opera in Chicago. At his tryout he sang Gounod's Ave Maria straight through with such solemn precision that Father...
When Father Finn took a group of boys to New York City in 1918 to form a new choir, O'Malley went along as his assistant director. He spent his spare time at the Metropolitan Opera and his spare cash on Victrola records. On the side he served as choirmaster of St. Gregory's Church, and staged concerts in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria. He was just 17 then. "I had a lot of nerve," he admits...
...that this music can only be sung by boys and men, and I wanted to find out how to train them. That was my chief problem, and I think I dug it up." Exceptional voices are not the secret of what Father O'Malley has accomplished with the choir (he has been with it ever since he was ordained in 1928). If a boy can sing America with a good tone and wants very much to join, O'Malley promptly puts him in the probationary group. Nor does the secret lie in anything he tells them ("The less...
...choir supports itself tidily with society weddings, big-name funerals and concert tours. Last week's anniversary concert netted a cool $9,000. The choir also furthers the special concern of the Paulists-to propagate the Roman Catholic faith among other Christians. Many non-Catholics are drawn to St. Mary's by the music, and several Protestant choir members have become converted...