Figure 1.--This photograph was taken in 1953 at the Eglise St. Germain. I think our chotister is being awarded his aube and Croix of St. Dominique.

A French reader who was a boy chorister in the 1950s has provided us an excerpt of his singing as a choir boy in the mid-1950s. He tell us, "Here are some extracts I sang in solo. In the chant " Pueri Concinite " the Ambitus rised till the contre-La , and in this time 1950s I was able to rise much more , till the contre-Ut. The music was my voice in 1957-58 after I came back from Austria. I studied the chant and music at a very young age. It seems I had a good voice and could reach the contre-Ut, which is usefull for certain parts! One can hear my voice amoung the PCCB choir on two or three EP records. I was a solist in the Mozart and Haendel works." Our reader has provided a MPEG-4 Movie file. Or try MPEG-4 Movie file. I have never worked with these files before and am not quite sure how they work. Apparently I have not done something correctly. If anyone knows how these files work, please let me know. I cannot get them to work. A reader suggests using the Window media format. This seems to work better. Let me know if it works for you.

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