At Easter, 1935, Professor D. had to make a journey, and asked a priest friend to come and say Holy Mass in his stead. Afterwards at breakfast the young priest, whose name was Father Wasner, said : “ You really sang quite well this morning, but... ” and he explained in a few words several important things to us, and then and there at the breakfast table, made us repeat a motet, conducting it from where he was sitting. None of us knew then just how lucky we were : This was the birth of the TRAPP FAMILY SINGERS