NEW ZEALAND BOY
TO GO TO VIENNA JOINS THE FAMOUS CHOIR A Palmerston North boy has broken mto the jealously guarded ranks of the Vienna Mozart Boys’ Choir. He is Lawrence Elman Day, aged 12, son of Mr L. S. Day, who is a violin maker residing at Palmerston North. Dr. Georg Gruber, director of the choir, granted the boy an audition on Saturday after a matinee performance. By Monday night all arrangements were in train for taking the boy to Vienna. A power of attorney making Dr. Gruber the boy’s guardian has been drawn up. Mr B. R. Woodcock, one of the tour managers, stated that Lawrence Day had received about two years’ training from a Palmerston North teacher and though he needed further training his voice, a soprano,
was like a bell. Dr. Gruber, he said, was excited by the discovery.
The boy would go to Australia, said Mr Woodcock, and tour there with the choir for three months, and would then journey on to Vienna, where he would not only receive a thorough training to equip him to take his part in the choir, but would also be given a complete education.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20821, 3 June 1939, Page 17 (Supplement)
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195NEW ZEALAND BOY Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20821, 3 June 1939, Page 17 (Supplement)
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