TEMPLE CHOIRBOY’S FAME.

Shannon News, 24 August 1928, Page 2

TEMPLE CHOIRBOY’S FAME.

MASTER ERNEST LOUGH’S VOICE BREAKING. LONDON, July 2. Ernest Lough’s voice is breaking. < This seventeen-year-old chorister, whose voice is known in homes all over the world, and who has been responsible for filling the Temple Church each Sunday since he became famous, will soon have to give up singing. His rise to fame was the result of the recording of Mendelssohn's “Hear my Prayer" by the Gramophone Com- r pany. The record, which was first sold last summer, was actually made in the Temple Church. More than half a million of these records were purchased in the first six months, and it is estimated that the sales have now reached a-million. The boy has not yet received any re- * ward for his services. He receives—like the other eleven choristers with whom he sings—free education at the City of London School, at which institution boys from the Chapel Royal are also taught. The Benchers of the Inner Temple made the contract with the Gramophone Company, and it is assumed that out t of their royalties ‘ some recognition may be made to the boy, or the money may go to some fund for the betterment of all the choristers’ conditions. “We have had some remarkable letters," said Mr Lough to a “Daily Express" representative. “They have come from all sorts of places —India, Cannda, the United States, South America, and even the Far East. Only last week we received a gold medal from Vienna for Ernest.”