Word: ballas
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Many another Budapest alumnus or graduate student sings in the chorus. Oldest member is Basso Karoly Balla, 44, vice president of a Budapest insurance company. Youngest is Tenor Laszlo Nagypal, 21, a student at the Royal Hungarian Franz Liszt Academy of Music. Thirty-three-year-old Viktor Vaszy directs the chorus. He also directs the Budapest Symphony Orchestra and is known in Hungary as a composer of distinction. He likes to boast of the time the chorus sang Mass with Pope Pius XI during Holy Year (1925). The Pope was so pleased that he gave them a large gold cross...