FAMOUS BOYVS’ CHOIR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1939, Page 2

FAMOUS BOYVS’ CHOIR

TO VISIT MASTERTON. Masterton music-lovers will welcome the announcement that the famous Vienna Mozart Boys’ Choir is to £ ive a concert in the Opera House on Fi iday week, May 26. The personnel of the choir, which comprises twenty choristers, is largely identical with that of the Mozart Choir which visited Great Britain in 1937, and earned unstinted praise from London and provincial critics. The “Liverpool Daily Post” said: —“The audience which greeted the Vienna Mozart Boys’ Choir at the Central Hall last evening enjoyed one of the greatest musical treats it is one’s lot to remember. Under the direction of Dr. Georg Gruber, who is evidently a choir-trainer,-conductor and musician of the first genius, they gave us a programme so rich in variety, so brilliant in execution, ’ and so entertaining in every way, that one can only feel sorry for those who missed it. To Dr. Gruber one can pay the highest tribute of saying that these boys sing as though they loved both him and the music. The whole atmosphere of the performance was enchanted. The programme to be given here will be thoroughly representative of all types of Viennese music, from the gems of the 16th century down to the popular waltz airs of Johann Strauss. There will also be selections of folk songs of the world, arranged by Dr. Gruber, who has collected them in all the countries he has visited. Plans for the Masterton concert will be opened on Tuesday morning at W. G. Perry’s.