Church Music in Toronto

...In their renditions of sacred polyphony by Ravanello, Pales- John Bassett Moore's Digest of International Law, Volume trina, etc., they showed a command of phrasing, dynamics, and VI, is entirely devoted in its 1,037 pages to some aspect or ease of technique that we have never seen equaled by even the other of this problem of intervention...

...For the first time weeks' normal course given the 300 teachers, the persistent he was alone with those who hunted with him and the supervision of the work in the schools, the calling of the Intertribe was born...

...They sang in unison and to alleviate the situation would be through an attempt to reach in two- and three-part harmony...

...A pleasant episode in their ciples of international law (May 5) and the reasons why, if demonstration was when one of their number wrote an orig- my statement is correct (that "our government, as a broad inal melody on the blackboard and the thousands of Toronto principle, has nothing whatever to do with the question of children in the audience were asked to show their resources rights of Mexicans in spiritual matters as against their own in the Ward method by singing it at sight...

...This they did government") "several of our Secretaries of State have encorrectly and nicely...

...0 the Editor:-Mr...

...London, Bishop O'Brien of Peterborough, Bishop McNally of The abstract principle of this kind of intervention has derived Hamilton, Bishop Ryan of Pembroke, Archbishop Sinnott of practical force from being embodied in various important Winnipeg, and Bishop Kidd of Calgary...

...Let those of us who still flee at formances was the demonstration of the Ward method by a times from this world which is "too much with us," group of girls from the Annunciation parish school, New ding fast to even our poor wooden doors, and if it so York...

...The numbers included .sail the seas, to seek the silence of the woods or rest our Gregorian as well as modern music, part-singing as well as cramped eyes on visions of limitless space, but when unison, proper as well as ordinary of the Mass, Benediction motets, and English hymns from the Saint Gregory hymnal...

...concern the exercise of religion of native subjects of the inter...

...entertainments of the Mutt and Jeff variety...

...tative writers on international law...

...Writing of this demonstration as it deavored to ensure religious liberty to the citizens of Mexico was given in Toronto at the Saint Gregory Convention in by treaty stipulation...

...Note that he derives the force from treaties, not we have not complete information from other centres, but we from fundamental right...

...America, if they are asking anything of the American governIt is the rule and not the exception in the rural parishes of ment, are asking for intervention...

...arouse general indignation among the citizens of a neighbor"If we called it angelic in its sweetness, simplicity, purity, and ing country, the only proper means for these latter to attempt earnestness we would not exaggerate...

...Nevertheless, its position in law is somewhat equivocal...

...The composers represented were Hamma, for the purpose of either maintaining or altering the actual Nikel, Gabrieli, Attwood, Byrd, Caesar Franck, Palestrina, condition of things within it...

...They unfold to let him in and those sad reformers who waste all their energies in deploring close back again when he has passed out...

...sent forward its chosen group of choristers to demonstrate The wilderness and the mountain top are too distant their achievements in sacred music...

...These children have been educated in music by Mother be that by any chance it fall to our lot to build a door, G. Stevens, and represent the Pius X School of Liturgical let us remember the doors that Ezekiel saw and carve Music...

...Worthy "Prima facie, intervention is a hostile act, because it conof special notice is the fact that Gregorian chant, falso-bor- stitutes an attack upon the independence of the state subjected done, and classic polyphony figured prominently on the pro- to it...

...Much has been done in the state on behalf of the subjects of another Christian state upon last five years...

...those who have heard harmonies from festival in the afternoon, and the adult choir festival in the far-off spaces have always lived behind closed doors...

...In their singing they were directed by Mr...

...was so far in advance of what everyday experience provides If religious oppression were so severe in one country as to that we could make a story about it and nothing else...

...SANDS ON INTERNATIONAL LAW to duplicate it...

...It is good to tramp the hills and Joseph's Convent sent a choir of girls...

...do as they are told...

...the garage he of everybody's attention, and also possible of attainment...

...big cities like Montreal and Quebec there are excellent adult Hence, although intervention often ends in war and is somechoirs, and it is not unusual to go into a large church in these times really war from the commencement, it may conveniently cities and hear hundreds of children singing Gregorian Vespers be considered abstractedly from the pacific or belligerent charalmost by heart...

...In the sometimes for the express purpose of avoiding war...

...But if there has before we pass on into a completely doorless age...

...Are not these doorways T HE Toronto Gregorian music festival, held during the sounding the doom of all real doors...

...We must avoid And so it is, I have wanted to write this little word using the words "propaganda" and "advertising" in connection with Church music reform because of their present-day vulgar of gratitude for the many beautiful doors of the world associations with politics and commercialism...

...foremost adult choirs...

...man know God, or know himself if he cannot go within Choirs of girls and boys represented Saint Helen's, Saint and close a door...

...evening...

...Hall, another accepted authority has, in part, this to say The evening festival was equally an artistic success...

...give more time to the study of Latin and Church music than So much for intervention in general, and Catholics in does the average Catholic college in other parts of Canada...

...With to our very bedside, or even enter our closed windows remarkable ensemble, with a freshness of tone that indelibly on the waves of the air as mysteriously as Peter Pan...

...More aeons and man shut taneous mushroom growth from the existing culture of a himself behind doors that he might be alone with him- people, but is rather the result of competent, talented, and self and out of this aloneness, behind that door, have authorized leaders exhorting and instructing the public to see leaped to birth all the great things of this earth...

...know that in Halifax and Kingston good progress has been "The treaties having for their object to secure the peacemade...

...We are called an outdoor people Michael's, and Saint Vincent's...

...The choirs feres in the relations of two other states without the consent that took part sang as trained choruses might be expected to of both or either of them, or when it interferes in the domestic sing, with good taste, pure tones, correct technique, and fine affairs of another state irrespectively of the will of the latter interpretation...

...Those their own welfare in the study of art...

...We beg pardon that treaties...

...156 THE COMMONWEAL June 16, 1926 timid nature to veritably suck us into their whirling CHURCH MUSIC IN TORONTO vortex and deposit us as rudely on another shore...

...Such capable, the low standards prevailing in this field and who despair of self-sufficient doors-so like the smooth-faced, brisk- our children ever being attracted by anything but jazz or stepping young man who made them...

...F. A. Casey (May 26) asks two perThey composed an original two-part piece from a given theme tinent questions concerning my reference to certain prinand sang it immediately at sight...

...School after school wonderful than those from Aladdin's lamp...

...It was a pleasing tableau to see, the boys in surplice and soutane, the girls in blue with red collars and cuffs...

...A chorus of 750 children taken from the thirtyvoices when any intruder at any hour, day or night, five separate schools of Toronto filled the chorus platform on can glide down a steel wire right into our house, even the stage...

...he drives in without stopping his car...

...Phillemore upholds among the arguable causes of intervention I have reason to believe, too, that before another generation that of "religious grounds" and has this to say: "The pracpasses in our English-speaking dioceses, we shall see equally tice (if it can be called such) of intervention of one Christian edifying traditions established...

...The introduction of the Ward method Rough stones closed in the first boundary that cut in our parish schools, the closing of the schools for the two the savage off from his enemies...

...past spring, was a decided success in that it gave fresh I have a friend who prides himself on his up-to-date impetus to the reform of Church music-a movement to which Canada has given worthy aid...

...It could scarcely, indeed, have had any earlier origin...

...From the point of view of the intervening power speaking provinces, I can only say that the traditions of it . . . is a measure of prevention, or police, undertaken Gregorian chant there are far in advance of our own...

...Regarded from the point of view of the state intruded upon I have been asked by The Commonweal to add a few words it must always remain an act which, if not consented to, is an about the movement in Canada generally...

...The festival gave expression home, who has just invented a new device for his to a conviction, growing among our teachers and choir masters, garage doors...

...who have followed stars, those who have seen the The festival comprised two performances, the children's beatific vision...

...ing the last three years, it is the result of employing the main I think back to the early cavemen who from a huge idea in advertising and propaganda: people generally think and pile of rocks and debris fashioned the first door...

...Boys came from Saint -for us city dwellers...

...The Junior School of Saint and that is well...

...They sang Gregorian `tunes' a treaty agreement on the subject, since no other valid ground whose rhythms had no square-cut corners, but were floating for intervention exists in the opinion of the majority of authoristrands of melody that you felt as plainly as you heard...

...0 How can we steal apart from the world when wood Canada, God Save the King, and Holy God, We Praise Thy is being turned as transparent as glass by rays more Name became acts of patriotism and faith...

...The Ward method has been introduced in the ground of religion dates from the period of the Reformatheir respective dioceses by their Lordships Bishop Fallon of tion...

...Fatal By J. E. RONAN doors for poets and dreamers-Bolshevik doors bound to crush out the intelligentsia...

...How can we hear the inner Massey Hall...

...How can friend know friend, Clare, Holy Name, Saint Mary's, and Saint Paul's schools...

...impresses the memory, they sang their choruses joyfully...

...Heinroth, who is one of the finest representatives of Mrs...

...Orlando di Lasso, Shuetky, Perruchot, and Kalinnikof...

...May, 1924, the Toronto Telegram praised it in these words: The two things are not only not incompatible, but are "The work of the eleven young singers from New York actually complementary...

...passes over an electric switch which opens his garage The festival was a public declaration of this conviction and doors as magically as doors open on the stage, and as such did much to form public opinion and public demand...

...They sang, unaccompanied, all kinds of un- Washington, D. C. related intervals from the chromatic scale during a few minutes...

...June 16, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 157 Ward's famous method...

...night comes or storms we want at least the flap of a An outstanding feature of both afternoon and evening pertent to close us in...

...gram...

...As for the French- act of war...

...The of intervention: "Intervention takes place when a state interdemonstration of the Ward method was repeated...

...In the afternoon an audience of 3,600, made up Where will poet, minstrel, and voyager find this soli- of children, teachers, religious and other adult listeners filled tude in a doorless world...

...French-Canada to have High Mass every morning of the year, Now for the arguable causes for intervention: With a and always there is at least one man-perhaps a baker or a large number of authorities against him Sir Robert Joseph butcher-who sings quite well the ordinary and the proper...

...He does not 'It was particularly a success in that it imposed silence on even see these doors...

...The young priests going out from our seminaries and able profession of religion are of two kinds: first, those which the religious from our novitiates, have zeal for this reform...

...Gregorian numbers were sung with impressive effect...

...Theodore upon ours, too, cherubim and a palm tree...

...As he enters his own driveway in his that what is worthy of the Pope's Motu Proprio is worthy car, at just the proper distance from...

...Generations whirled by and it was national Convention of the Society of Saint Gregory to meet a door that separated those within the tribe and for the in Toronto in May, 1924, the frequent press notices-all first time man found himself alone with his mate and these means and others were used according to the policy that reform in art does not spring up everywhere at once as a sponthe family came into being...

...The colleges and high schools of Quebec acter which it assumes in different cases...

...For been any significant reform of Church music in Toronto durthat is the age into which we are passing now...

...What these children did in the line of sight singing was of such an excellence that we would be COMMUNICATIONS safe in challenging 9o percent of our professional musicians T MR...