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Show The World's Greatest Choir. Russia boasts of the world's greatest choir. It is in the Cathedral of Alexander Alex-ander Nevski in St. Petersburg, and is attached to a convent erected in honor of the patron saint in Russia. Its members mem-bers are all monks chosen from the best voices in all the Russian monasteries. mon-asteries. When a fine singer appears among the novitiates, he Is sent to the monastery of Alexander Nevski, where he is trained as carefully as an opera singer and remains there, doing nothing noth-ing except assisting at the music at j mass in the morning and vespers In I the afternoon until he becomes aged, when he retires on a pension. Some of the voices are of marvelous strength and sweetness, and it is said that some members of the choir can shatter a thin glass into fragments by singing into it, so powerful are the vibrations of their tones. The monks are all vegetarians. veg-etarians. They never eat meat. The rules of the church forbid them to shave, and their hair is worn like a gregationalist. . . ' - |