The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-28
FIR, FlNN'S CH0RISTERS INTERESTING GROUP
 0F TALENTED BOYS

The concert to be given nezz- Sun
 day afternoon at 2:3O, December @rd,
 in the Majestic theatre by Father
 Finns PapItst chOristers. under the
 auspices of Park City Council No. 6,
 is awaited w--h much interest by
 many hundreds of local music lovers.
 Not only the marvellous music tut
 the interest at which this group If
 talented boys create has a magnetic
 power which i- s e1u ec-ed will draw
 people from many different cities of
 The state.
 Father Finn's gent s as a choir
 conductor has been universally rec
 o@EiZcd. When he took his choir to
 Rome in 1912 he stepped on the way
 lt Paris. where there was an inter
 aatfOnal com petition The choir won
 first prize in the first division. and
 Father Finn was decorated with the
 palms of the French Academy.
 While the members of most chCirs
 assemble once or twice a week for 0-a ct:ce. the Paul'st Choir boys are rehearsod every day of the Sch0Ol year. Their re@ular academic studies occupy the morning IT'D t0 o'clock; then they have a long recreation pc ~i9d. after which -Le choir reh ParSal bcEirs. Tt is this method that ac- counts not only for -h= perfection cs the choral work and the marvellous quality of the boys voices. and also ~he unlimited -epertory which the ! hovs have acquired after years of this sort of traiutr@.
 The r--ulber= of tha Pau1fzt Boys +'0oir live -0@ether in a resideUce school @t Fort WGEhin"tOn TetChtS.
 New. York. Of the 70 bows who. are at tho school the majority have | .rat~ homes other than in and around i [ew York. One solo boy for in stance. comes from California end other live in Chicago. N1ichigan. ! Maryland. Massachusetts. New Jer- ~ey, and elsewhere. Generally speak 1 ing. the boys enter the choir and | therefore the school around nine and | -E Et,.- ~aU1afD until IT or IS There is only 1 one other choir school If the kind iu he r g. and this school is supported
 " or7L-vn22.rnt Tn the present case
 ~~~+ad in the main by tho concert 0~n+n@~ of the boys themselves. S0 continuous is the attention paid 70 the voices of the boys in the PauIfst ave "e@u'ated SO ae to prevent injury 10 heir sir"f02 voices Any strain mon the voice caused by shouting ~hOws itself It the daily evening re 'raa~saI and the b0- has to stand "st6e. This being the case, 1t very -1 17CDn h7DDanH.
 Pou1fst Choir have been puzzled to F-row whether Tt times one of the soprano boys were singing or whether rhore were a r,l-7bor singing at the ~ame time. Father Finn says he long aro convinced himself that a COnsid- 0~7Nla number CF bows of about the 'am age and with the same 0Ua'itv of voice could he trained +o sin@ a ! though it were a single voice. Hay ! iT@ achieved this evtraOrdinarv re suit. Father Finn Is naturally as
 r~uch rratiffed as amused when neo- ole arc puzzled to know whether they 1 are Hs-on'u@ to one voice CT ten ! voices that sound as one
 l Last spring Father FiD0's Pau1ist ] Choir sang for President Harding at | the White House This was in ac- 1 nordance with rreCndn ont. as the ch0'r 1 has sUD~ at the White House for | every Pr5osident since it was founded. ] When the hOvs are on tour. they arc accOmnanied bv their teachers. | and have classes every day. On one long toUr which lasted A days. in | two PuUmans. they had literally school on wheels
 These bows are living uD to the ~OOd old custom of working their way through school to the untver- i sitv. Most of them are poor bows. The tickets for the concert are on eala at the MaiCstfc box office and al the Knights of Columbus club house.