THE VIENNA BOYS' CHOIR

Evening Star, Issue 22203, 4 December 1935, Page 8

THE VIENNA BOYS' CHOIR

CAPTIVATE ENGLISH AUBKNGES Plans are now open at the D.I.C. for the Vienna Boys’ Choir season, which commences on Saturday night at Hha Majesty’s. Four evening performances are announced, with matinees on Monday, Tuesday, and AVednesday, at 2.30. Last year on a triumphal tour of the Europen capitals the Vienna Boys Choir sang to an English audience for the first time at Queen’s Hall, London, and achieved an instant success. Commenting on the opening performance,«The Times ’ said: “These Sangerknaben appeal to English audiences, no doubt partly because their singing i« so unlike that of English boys; and f possessing a style of our own m hoys singing, we .are the better able to appreciate that of other people, but still more perhaps because their training, so far from curbing spontaneity of expression, liberates it. Whether .my are singing polyphonic motets of the sixteenth century, or arrangements by Brahms and otllers of/oik songs,.->r transcriptions of the waltzes of Johann Strauss, they seem genuinely impelled by the style of the music Ihey delighted the audience with liberal selections in all these different styles. After the interval the choir became an opera company, and exchanging its , sailor siflts for the costumes appropriate to an eighteenth century Court, they sang and acted with remarkable spirit and skill. Theirs is an artistic entertainment of a very high order.”