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The boys receive a general education in conformity there with the official programs, CM1 with 3rd. The musical and vocal training is ensured by five professors. It includes instruction in polyphony, the musical theory and of the individual and collective courses of song. The choral training required an enormous effort on the boys' part. A reader tells us, "At the PCCB boarding house, the boys in the 1950s had 3 hours of music training each day, focusing heavily on chant. Soloists received even more training. When one considers that the boys also had school work you can see the tremendous effort that the choristers put into the program. You can see that the children had little time to play with their frends. Thus was my exoeriece as well, but I must say that I never sufferd from it." The staff is carefully chosen and extremely competent. The children take part in trips only after one period of preparation. The teachers accompany the choristers when they go on tour and conduct lessons on a well established half-time basis which requires real discipline on the boys' part. The life of the Small Singer finishes with adolescene and the change of voice, about 13 or 14 years of age. The boys then continue their studies in a school of their choice. A small moment of nostalgia, quickly surmounted, can accompany this departure, but the Small Singer approaches a new rich existence of an experiment and an exceptional broadmindedness.
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