DEPLETED CATHOLIC CHOIRS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 8, 4 March 1925, Page 43

DEPLETED CATHOLIC CHOIRS

The Australian Catholic parents haye .always been noted for the anxiety by them regarding the.musical equipment (of their children (says the 1F..-1, I!ccord). .'.Jsi no country .perhaps-more than in Australia is there so unstinted, generosity displayed \\\\ tin's matter. But it. certainty is a ma|jteV|q]P reproach and shame to find, that so few of these musical enthusiasts ever ♦find | their rightful place in our local Catholic chairs'in a.!tor life. Our choirs are suffering slagiiQ.* tion owing to lack of members,- and thl question of having the advantages' of chumh choirs are becoming seriously imperilled; 4lt is difficult In fathom the mentality..of* those' young people who have bad a musical ieduc£tiohj'and yet will not use its benefits|ilf tse due choral adoration of God. Choir ; wolrk may perhaps- tie beneath -t hem.-. Adopting this attitude they thereby display their ignorance of Ihe right thing. If things : wto as they should be, ami all,our young] Catholic ladies and men offered their service for choir work, the difficulty should be of finding suitable parts for. all,. t As, it .is norths work cannot be done in a proper uianenr owing to an appalling of momheijs.