EMINENT CONDUCTOR

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20786, 22 April 1939, Page 17 (Supplement)

EMINENT CONDUCTOR

WITH VIENNA BOYS’ CHOIR Dr. Georg Gruber, the eminent conductor of the Vienna Mozart Boys’ Choir, was born in Vienna, graduated in 1926 a-t the State Academy of Music and •became in the same year conductor of the Haydn Basilica Cho ; ir. In 192 9 he was appointed professor of the Catholic People's University, and in 1930 Director of the Boys’ Choi rs ’ O rga nisa t ion. During 193 6 - 37 he was the conductor of the Vienna Male Choir this Choir is the oldest

and most important of its kind in Europe). In 1936 he conducted the Bach-Mozart Festival at the Colon j Theatre in Buenos Aires, also orchestral concerts in Rio de Janeiro and Sao j Paulo. In 1937 he conducted the j Brahms Festival at the State Theatre | in Mexico City. j Teh London Times says: "Mozart’s j boyish opera ‘Bastien and Bastienne’ ! was certainly charming, and the young j interpreters brought to it a boyish I directness that was wholly appropriate !to the little comedy. They conjured ! up a picture of Mozart’s Vienna which | aJI English people love ’’ j