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Mozart was never one of the Wiener Sängerknaben but Haydn and Schubert had their first musical training in the choir school as did Clemens Krauss, natural son of an Archduke and a ballet dancer, who now directs the Vienna Opera. Haydn and Schubert had to leave the choir when their voices broke. The Habsburgs would not have their boy sopranos castrated although that was common practice elsewhere in 17th and 18th Century Europe. With the fall of the Habsburgs the choir disbanded, but six years later Father Josef Schnitt, a priest at the Former Imperial Chapel, reorganized...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Serge Koussevitzky, will give a concert this evening at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre in which Jesus Maria Sanroma is to be the soloist. The program is as follows: Haydn, Symphony No. 6 in G major, "Surprise" (B. & H. No. 6)-Hill, Concertino for Piane and Orchestra, Op. 36-Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64. This concert is one of a series given each year by the Orchestra in Sanders Theatre...
...given at the opera house but extremists reconcile themselves to it on the ground that Pinkerion. the naval officer who deserted Butterfly, was a capitalist. All religious music is banned. Spirituals are popular but Russians hear them only after references to the Lord are eliminated. A performance of Haydn's Creation was forbidden even after new words were written. The music stayed essentially religious. A concert dedicated to Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven was advertised lately as "The Dawn of Industrial Capitalism." When Dancer Ruth Page was in Moscow last year the Government asked her to come on stage riding...
...Haydn," Professor Hill, Music Building...
...Dierrell Quartet will play selections from string quartets by Haydn. Music Building...