Word: ngerknaben
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...season will not be quite as joyful as usual in Vienna this year. For the first time in living memory, the voices of the city's world-renowned Choir Boys will not be heard in the Hofburg chapel this Christmas. Seven Masses, traditionally sung by the Sängerknaben, have been canceled; so has the State Opera's year-end performance of Puccini's Tosca. The reason: a 30-year-old federal law forbidding children under 14 to work for pay. The law was designed to prevent mine operators and the like from exploiting youngsters...
...avail. The ban does not affect all the SĠngerknaben choirs. Three out of the four are usually touring abroad; one will be in New York City next month. But the silence will shatter a tradition that goes back to 1498, when Emperor Maximilian founded the group. Amending the legislation will take time. Says Choir Director Walter Tautschnig: "I have spent Christmas at the Hofburg chapel for almost 50 years, from choirboy to director. It almost breaks my heart to miss...
Nevertheless, in the grey, red-&-gold Burg chapel, where once the Emperor followed Mass, Viennese still congregate every Sunday, and they are joined-in cosmopolitan peace-by some occupation officers who have a taste for prayer and music. There, violins and the sweet young voices of the Sängerknaben still make the most beautiful music in the honor of God that is made anywhere...
From Vienna. In Manhattan's big Carnegie Hall-a bit too big for their frail, clear trebles and altos-last week 20 Wiener Sängerknaben, aged 10 to 12, began a U. S. tour which will take them to the west coast and back. The Vienna Singing Boys, famed 439-year-old choir from Austria's old imperial palace give U. S. audiences Dixie and the Star-Spangled Banner in English, chaste church music, operettas in which they rouge and dress up as laundresses, guardsmen, 18th Century gentlemen and ladies...
...symphony as a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt. Last summer he completed a Requiem Mass for his mother. At its world premiere in Vienna last week, the performers alone would have made it notable. A chorus from the Society of the Friends of Music united with the Wiener Sängerknaben Choir to sing with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. As leading soprano, Dusolina Giannini soloed eloquently for her dead mother...