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Views from the Choir Loft

Saint Paul’s Choir School • Open Houses

Richard J. Clark · September 27, 2019

HE ONLY all boys Roman Catholic choir school in the United States, St. Paul’s Choir School, Harvard Square, is holding open houses soon (listed below). Additionally, the school is very happy to invite boys to “shadow” throughout the school day to get a hands-on experience. Financial aid is available. This is a special opportunity to explore a unique and life-changing Catholic education.


Educate & Elevate – Open Houses Following the Great Cathedral School Tradition

AINT PAUL’S Choir School provides boys in grades 3-8 with an extraordinary learning experience. SPCS integrates a rigorous, academic day school with the performance of choral masterworks at home, internationally, and with renowned groups such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Saint Paul’s features small classes and teaches the core subjects of Math, Literature, Social Studies, and Science along with Rhetoric, Latin, and Music Theory.

PDF • Download information here!

Boys who enter Saint Paul’s Choir School need only an interest in singing. Choral instruction, rigor, and practice shape them into the beautiful chorus and choristers Saint Paul’s is known for.

SPCS CORDIALLY INVITES you and your son to our Open Houses and vocal auditions on the following dates:

• Thursday, October 24 from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
• Sunday, November 3 from 12:30-2:30 p.m.
• Thursday, January 30 from 5:30-7:30 p.m.

For more information, click here to see our website or
click here to email Patrick Moran, Director of Admissions.

N A MORE PERSONAL NOTE, my son has begun his studies at Saint Paul’s Choir School. While he loved his previous school, he was thrilled to begin St. Paul’s. As parents, our interest in Saint Paul’s is just as much academic as it is musical (perhaps more). With academics—bolstered by new Headmaster, Dr. Thomas Haferd—coupled with unique performance opportunities, the boys are sought after by excellent high schools and colleges.

Most importantly, the boys are immersed in the traditions of the Catholic Faith, attending, and singing at Mass six days per week. They are guided by the Pastor and Senior Chaplain, Fr. William Kelly, who also graduated from St. Paul’s having studied with the school’s legendary founder and visionary, Theodore Marier. Notably it was at St. Paul’s where Fr. Kelly first considered the priesthood. (At the time it was called the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School. “St. Paul’s Choir School” is the original and current name.)

The greatest thing Saint Paul’s has to offer is its bedrock of Catholicism. Thomas Carroll, Superintendent of Schools for the Archdiocese of Boston implores that Catholic Schools embrace their Catholicism as their greatest strength. He writes in the Boston Pilot:

Some Catholic school leaders wrongly believe that they should de-emphasize faith as they seek to market their schools in a broadly secular society. This is a mistake. Given competition from free district schools and free charter schools, a Catholic school will not prevail by positioning itself as a tuition-charging secular (non-religious) school. Our schools can “go further with faith.” What Catholic schools offer is something more transcendent than any secular school can ever offer. This is our strength, not a weakness.

Opinions by blog authors do not necessarily represent the views of Corpus Christi Watershed.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Catholic Education, Saint Pauls Choir School Harvard Square Last Updated: January 1, 2020

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About Richard J. Clark

Richard J. Clark is the Director of Music of the Archdiocese of Boston and the Cathedral of the Holy Cross.—(Read full biography).

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    PDF Download • “Polyphonic Extension” (Kevin Allen) for Gloria III
    EVIN ALLEN was commissioned by Sacred Music Symposium 2025 to compose a polyphonic ‘middle section’ for the GLORIA from Mass III: a.k.a. “Missa Kyrie Deus sempiterne.” This year, I’m traveling from Singapore to serve on the symposium faculty. I will be conducting Palestrina’s ‘Ave Maria’ as well as teaching plainsong to the men. A few days ago, I was asked to record rehearsal videos for this beautiful polyphonic extension. (See below.) This polyphonic composition fits ‘inside’ GLORIA III. That is, the congregation sings for the beginning and end, but the choir alone adds polyphony to the middle. The easiest way to understand how everything fits together is by examining this congregational insert. Feel free to download the score, generously made available—free of charge—to the whole world by CORPUS CHRISTI WATERSHED:
    *  PDF Download • Gloria III ‘Middle Section’ (Kevin Allen)
    Free rehearsal videos for each individual voice await you at #24366. Related News • My colleague, Jeff Ostrowski, composed an organ accompaniment for this same GLORIA a few months ago. Obviously, the organist should drop out when the polyphony is being sung.
    —Corrinne May
    “Booklet of Eucharistic Hymns” (16 pages)
    I was asked to create a booklet for my parish to use during our CORPUS CHRISTI PROCESSION on 22 June 2025. Would you be willing to look over the DRAFT BOOKLET (16 pages) I came up with? I tried to include a variety of hymns: some have a refrain; some are in major, others in minor; some are metered, others are plainsong; some are in Spanish, some are in Latin, but most are in English. Normally, we’d use the Brébeuf Hymnal—but we can’t risk having our congregation carry those heavy books all over the city to various churches.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Yahweh” in church songs?
    My pastor asked me to write a weekly column for our parish bulletin. The one scheduled to run on 22 June 2025 is called “Three Words in a Psalm” and speaks of translating the TETRAGRAMMATON. You can read the article at this column repository. All of them are quite brief because I was asked to keep within a certain word limit.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

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    Antiphons Don’t Match?
    A reader wants to know why the Entrance and Communion antiphons in certain publications deviate from what’s prescribed by the GRADUALE ROMANUM published after Vatican II. Click here to read our answer. The short answer is: the Adalbert Propers were never intended to be sung. They were intended for private Masses only (or Masses without music). The “Graduale Parvum,” published by the John Henry Newman Institute of Liturgical Music in 2023, mostly uses the Adalbert Propers—but sometimes uses the GRADUALE text: e.g. Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June).
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    There are lots of different guides to postures for Mass, but I couldn’t find one which matched our local Latin Mass, so I made this one: sit-stand-kneel-crop
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    The Funeral Rites of the Graduale Romanum
    Lately I have been paging through the 1974 Graduale Romanum (see p. 678 ff.) and have been fascinated by the funeral rites found therein, especially the simply-beautiful Psalmody that is appointed for all the different occasions before and after the funeral Mass: at the vigil/wake, at the house of the deceased, processing to the church, at the church, processing to the cemetery, and at the cemetery. Would that this “stational Psalmody” of the Novus Ordo funeral rites saw wider usage! If you or anyone you know have ever used it, please do let me know.
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