Word: ngerknaben
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Boys. When a special bus bumped into Ripon, Wis. one afternoon last week, 20 world-famous little boys got out of it. Though they had traveled 300 wet, slippery miles from South Bend, Ind., the Wiener Sängerknaben (Singing Boys of Vienna) were erect and lively as they marched into their hotel. There they stripped to the waist, scrubbed their faces, brushed their teeth, composed themselves for a short nap. That night they made the little college town gasp at their sweet voices and expert phrasing. Students, teachers and farmers from 100 miles around listened reverently to da Vittoria...
...Singing Boys date back to 1498 when Emperor Maximilian I founded a choir to supply music for his chapel. After his death other Habsburgs subsidized the choir. It became one of the foremost groups in Europe. Haydn and Schubert were sängerknaben until their voices changed. The Habsburgs would not have their boy sopranos castrated, though this practice was common enough in 17th and 18th-Century Europe...
...Vienna choir had to disband. Six years later Father Josef Schnitt, a priest at the Former Imperial Chapel, reorganized it, for two years fed, clothed and educated the boys out of his own pocket. By 1926 Father Schnitt's savings were gone and the Wiener Sängerknaben went on tour...
...their fifth U. S. tour the Wiener Sängerknaben still eat heartily, still complain that they are not allowed chewing gum. They range from 8 to 13. After the Ripon concert they were to go to New Castle, Pa. thence to Hamilton...
...Wiener Sängerknaben are one of the oldest Christian choirs still singing, the choir of the Pius X School of Liturgical Music is one of the newest. The school was founded by a stylish little woman named Mrs. Justine Bayard Ward, 57-year-old sister of the late Senator Bronson Cutting. In London, at 25, she became a Roman Catholic. Profoundly interested in Catholic liturgy, she studied at the Benedictine school in Solesmes which Pius X, then Pope, considered the best school of plain song extant. In 1918 she gave $100,000 to build a liturgical school in Manhattan...