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...Singing Boys date back to 1498 when Emperor Maximilian I founded a choir to supply music for his chapel. After his death other Habsburgs subsidized the choir. It became one of the foremost groups in Europe. Haydn and Schubert were sängerknaben until their voices changed. The Habsburgs would not have their boy sopranos castrated, though this practice was common enough in 17th and 18th-Century Europe...
...Tuesday evening in Jordan Hall, the new chamber music group organized by Bernard Zighera is to give its second concert. The remarkable program opens with Haydn's "La Reine" Symphony and continues with a Concerto for Strings written by the modern composer Jereszy Fitelberg. Bartlett and Robertson, two piano artists, are to play Bach's Concerto in C minor and Mozart's Concerto in E flat, and the concert concludes with d'Indy's Concerto for piano,l flute, cello, and string orchestra. This promises to be a very unusual and worth-while evening...
Handel's great oratorio, the "Messiah," is being given by the Handel and Haydn Society in Symphony Hall on Sunday evening, December 20. For those who will be around Boston at that time and have not heard this famous work, here is an excellent opportunity to hear a good performance...
...Stradivarius Quartet, an admirable chamber music group, is to give a concert in the central court of Fogg Art Museum next Tuesday evening. Bach's Passacaglia in C minor, arranged by Alfred Pochon, Beethoven's Quartet in D major (Opus 18), and Haydn's Quartet in B flat major (Opus 64, No. 3) are to be performed. The San Carlo Opera Company is opening a week's engagement at the Opera House next Monday evening with "Carmen." "Aida" will be given the following night and the repertoire for the rest of the week includes "Lohengrin," "Madame Butterfly," "Rigoletto," "Faust...
Egbert W. Fischer 1G and John S. Morgan '39 also earned places in the finals by their conductorship of Haydn's Second Symphony in D Major and the second movement of the same composer's Surprise...