St. Paul's Choir School

at 29 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge , 02138 United States

1. Middle School

St. Paul's Choir School is a Catholic choir school located at The Church of St. Paul (Harvard Square) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1963, the middle school for boys in fourth through eighth grades is the only boys' choir school in the United States of America affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church. The Choir School educates and trains the choirboys who sing soprano in The Choir of St. Paul's | Harvard Square, a choir of boys and men. The choir sings for liturgical services at St. Paul Church and performs primarily in and around the Boston area. It is located within the Archdiocese of Boston.HistorySt. Paul's Choir School was founded in 1963 by Theodore Marier and Monsignor Augustine F. Hickey as the result of the Vatican's 1958 Instruction on Sacred Music and Sacred Liturgy De musica sacra, which declared that every effort should be made that city center churches have their own boys' choir school. St. Paul's Choir School started in September with twenty-five fifth- through eighth-grade students chosen from throughout the Archdiocese of Boston. The Choir School was designed as a four-year course for students of academic ability and musical talent, assigning two periods of each school day to music, as well as additional rehearsals with the men of the choir. The music program included sight reading, appreciation, theory, history, and instrumental studies. Under Marier's direction, the boys sang, initially with members of the Harvard Catholic Club, and later with the Schola Cantorum of St. Paul's, which had been formed years earlier by Marier to sing Gregorian chant at Mass. Harvard students also helped out with the recreation program at the Choir School.

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St. Paul's Choir School is Cambridge based place and this enity listed in Middle School category. Located at 29 Mt Auburn St MA 02138. Contact phone number of St. Paul's Choir School: (617) 868-8658