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Monday evening, October 29, concert by the Sistine Chapel Choir, "from the Vatican Rome...
Professor A. T. Davison '06, organist and choir master at Harvard, and J. W. D. Seymour '17, secretary for the Harvard Alumni, are among the graduate members of the Pi Eta society who will assist Mr. G. V. C. Lord in coaching this year's Pi Eta show, it was learned last night from O. R. Rice '25, publicity manager of the production...
...advance of the orchestra relegated the choir to revered desuetude, but the insatiable interest of the present Century has rediscovered and reawakened...
...History and Personnel. For centuries the Sistine Choir of the Vatican represented the most august development of music, reaching its greatest glory in the medieval days of the unaccompanied chorus...
...Male singers only" has been its rule. The sopranos and contraltos were not the voices of boys; they were " castrati "-eunuchs imported from infidel lands. More recently, special instruction has been employed to retain the soprano and contralto tones of boys after the natural break in the voice. The choir now consists of 34 men and 20 boys. All wear white surplices over cassocks of purple and scarlet...