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The Vienna Boys' Choir Performance on the 17th

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Little angels from Vienna, Austria come to Busan. The Vienna Boys’ Choir that is proud of heavenly voice will have performance in Busan. Arturo Toscanini praised them as Heavenly voice given from God. Their unique, elegant, clear ringing voice will send us hopes for the New Year. The Vienna Boys' Choir meets Busan audience at the big hall at Busan Citizen’s Hall at 7:30 on the 17th. It has performance tour in six cities in Korea including Busan.

The Vienna Boys' Choir is one of the oldest boys' choirs existing in the world. For nearly five hundred years they have been a symbol of Austria. A founding document of Maximilian I in 1498 called the first dozen boys to the imperial court as members of the newly formed court music band. Since then the Vienna Boys' Choir has been a fixed attraction in Austrian musical life. Countless famous Composers and Conductors like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart have worked with the Choirboys. In 1921 the Boys' Choir was turned into a private Organization and has been giving concerts around the world since 1926.

Today, there are 4 boys' choirs, who constantly tour the world. The choristers are aged 11 to 14 years, attend school together and receive an excellent musical education. After graduation majority of them work at art related field and keep the tradition of living together with art. For this Busan performance the choir shows quintessence of chorus with various repertoires such as Ave Maria by Arcadelt, Hallelujah by Schubert, Elijah by Mendelssohn, etc. In addition folk songs from all over the world as India, Hebrew, Mexico, American native, Zulu, Australia, etc. For further information call 051-248-2011.

 

The source of news : Busanilbo, Thursday January 13, 2005, 9:16