New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
GregOrian Chant
Congress To Be
Held This Week

The order Of ceremonies for the
three days Of the international congrc IS
Of Grcgorian Chant, to be held in st.
Patrick's Cathedral, New York City,
under the auspices Of his grace, Arch
bishop Hayes, on June /, 2 and 8, has
just been announced.
At 1890 a. m, Tuesday, June /,
solemn votive mass Of the Holy Ghost
will be celebrated by Archbishop Hayes.
The Missa do Angels will be sung.
Three thousand five hundred children
from the parochial schools of New York
and Brooklyn will sing the Common,
and the Proper will be sung by seventy
five scminarians from st. Bernard's
Seminary, Rochester, The entire BODY
of the cathedral will be filled by the
children, except for a few seats, which
Will be held sln reserve for special pa
irons. Entrance tickets to the cathc-
dral Will be distributed as long as they
last Early application for these tickets
IS desirable because they are limited in
number.
At 2:30 p. m. Tuesday, June /. in
Cathedral Hall, there will be a Joint
lecture given by Dom Mocquereau and
Dom Gatard on "Tke Pontifical Ideas
OF the RESTORATION Of Gregorian Chant"
At 5 o'clock, Tuesday, June 1, ves-
pers-The Antiphons of vespers will be
sung by the scminarians from st. Ber-
nard's Seminary, Rochester. and the
Psalms will be sung by 300 seminarians
from Baltimore, Cleveland, Dunwoodie.
brooklyn, Metuchen, N. j., and Notre
Dame, Ind; also, 200 women of rcli-
glous communities, 200 volunteer sing
crs from New York, Brooklyn and the
Bronx, and 150 students from colleges
and academies in New York, Brooklyn
and suburbs.
At o'clock, Tuesday, June /, there
will be Complne. The singers will be
the same as at vespcrS.
The order of ceremonies for the sec
ond day, Wednesday, June 2, will be
as follows:
At 10:30 a. M, solemn requiem mass
the Missa Pro Defunctis viii be sung
in memory Of those who died in IT,
war. The Common of the mass and
the Sequence will be sung by $50 semi
narians from Baltimore, Rochester.
Cleveland, Dunwoodie, Brooklyn, Provi-
dence, Metuchen, N. J and Notre
Dame, Ind and $50 children from
academies and schools in Albany.
Philadelphia, New York and Brooklyn
- in all, 1,040 voices.
At 2:3O p. m, in Cathedral Hall,
there will be a lecture by the Very
Rev DR.. T; E. Shields, dean of the
Sisters College of the Catholic Uni
versity, Washington, D. c., on "The
Place of the Liturgy in the Education
Of Children" And another lecture by
the Rev. DR.. Edwin j. A. Ryan, Of Dun
Woodle Seminary, on The Nestnants
Of the Roman Rites and Their His
torica! Development"
At $3.50 p. m, IN Cathedral Hall,
monstration OF school music by chill
Gren from the Annunciation and Our
Lady Of Lourdes schools.
At 5 p. m, vespers of the Feast OF
Corpus Christi. The Antiphons and
Psalms will be sung by the same Il nc Singers %rs'
as at vespers on the first day
At D. m, Compline, and thc singers
WI! be the same as at vcspcrs.
Order of ceremonies on the third
day, Wednesday, June 3
At 1880 a. m. mass for the Feast
of Corpus Christi, the Blessed Virgin
Mary mass, Cum Jubilo. The Common
will be sung By ,273 voices, made IN
of 400 seminarians, 200 women of re-
mics and schools and Professor Nichola
Montani's Paleatrina Choir from Phila-
dclphia. The Proper Of the mass will
be sung by eighty seminarians from St.
Mary's Seminary, Baltimore.
The Archbishop's Committee Of Ar
rangements is composed of the Very
Rev. Monsignor James II. Mclean, the
Very Rev. MonsignQr Edwin NJ Sweeny
and the Rev Dr.. Joseph N. Mcmahon.
Ihe lay patrons in charge of finance
are John G. Agar, James Byrne, Bourke
Cochran, Joseph 2. Grace, William
Guthrie, Adrian Isclin and Clarence
Mackay; Mrs. Nicholas Brady, Mrs.
Winthrop Chanler, Mrs. John C. Moore.
Mrs. Herbert D. Robbins, Mrs. William
T. Sheehan, Mrs. Cornelius Tiers ANA
Mrs. Cabot Ward