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...Wiener Sängerknaben...
...allowed to prowl through the rooms which belonged to Archduke Rudolf, Franz Josef's son who died mysteriously at his hunting lodge at Mayerling. Rudolf's rooms have not been preserved as a museum for tragic memories. They are occupied by 40 lively boys, the Wiener Sängerknaben (Singing Boys of Vienna), a choir which Maximilian I founded in 1498 to supply music for his chapel...
Without the Habsburgs to subsidize them, the Wiener Sängerknaben have had to do what they could toward supporting themselves and last week 22 of the boys ranging from 9 to 12 arrived in the U. S. for a transcontinental tour. On the pier at Hoboken, N. J. they stood solemnly to be photographed in their sailor pants and reefers. They romped and spun tops while customs officials skimmed through their 22 valises in each of which bathrobe, towel, comb and handkerchiefs were packed exactly alike. Then, after sight-seeing Manhattan, the boys set out for Washington where...
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...
...advantage of the Independents' liberality to exhibit political propaganda. Critics noted that the founders of modernism are already sufficiently venerable to have direct copyists. Director Warren Wheelock produced a solid canvas of "Men Working'' in precisely the mood and manner of rotund Diego Rivera. Artist Dmitry Wiener exhibited an angular confection entitled "Exotique" (see cuts) that only lacked Pablo Picasso's acute sense of color to be exactly like the great Spanish experimenter's latest abstractions. Depression caused one novelty in this year's show. Artists loudly announced that this year they would barter...