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...agree with the editorials, some of which are intended to be sarcastic, which have recently appeared in the Advocate, in regard to the chapel choir. The powers that be, recognizing the dislike of the students for compulsory attendance at chapel, but believing that the welfare of the college does not demand its abolishment have endeavored to make the service as interesting as possible. This has been brought about in many ways, in none more so than by the improvement in the music. The latest change is the introduction of choir boys who are trained with much care and patience...
Speaking of the choir of Magdalen College Mr. Collier says: "The two most famous-and deservedly famous-choirs in the world are the Bach choir at Leipsic and the choir of the Magdalen Chapel at Oxford. I had often heard the Bach choir and had never had an opportunity of hearing the Magdalen choir, or the "Maudlin" choir, as the name is always pronounced in England. I never heard in the Leipsic choir any such marvelously sweet and true voices as those that compose the Oxford choir. The choir is richly endowed, and so it may draw from...
There was singing by the choir this afternoon at 5 o'clock, twenty-four boys and twelve men, of course all in surplices. Besides the choir and clergy there were not more than a dozen persons present, who are only admitted by ticket, usually secured some days beforehand. The lovely, though dim and solemn, chapel is small, having seating room for not more than 200 people. The entire evening service of the Church of England was intoned and sung, and a more perfect and worshipful religious service it has never been my privilege to engage in. Two of the boys...
...pitched without," said a clergyman, having Noah's ark for his theme, and an old gase-ball player, who had been calmly slumbering, awoke with a start and yelled, "Foul !" The first bass came down from the choir...
...choir of sixteen boys which is to assist the chapel choir this year has been training during the summer under Mr. W. A. Locke, the organist, and we may expect a great improvement in the quality of chapel music...