Vienna Boys Choir
Theatre - Performance
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Sunday, December 13, 2009 3:00 PM-5:00 PM |
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| Suggested Audiences: | Elders, Adult, College, High School, Middle School, Elementary | |
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Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts 2 Southbridge St. Worcester, MA 01608 |
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| Cost: | 43.50-$55.50 | |
| Description: | WOO Card/Student Discounts available. Swipe your WOO card to earn points! Members and groups $5/$4 discounts! Today there are around 100 choristers between the ages of ten and fourteen, divided into four touring choirs. The four choirs give around 300 concerts and performances each year in front of almost half a million people. Each group spends nine to eleven weeks of the school year on tour. They visit virtually all European countries, and they are frequent guests in Asia, Australia and the Americas. Together with members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna State Opera Chorus, the Vienna Boys Choir maintains the tradition of the imperial musicians: as Hofmusikkapelle they provide the music for the Sunday Mass in Viennas Imperial Chapel, as they have done since 1498. Gerald Wirth took over as the choirs artistic director in 2001. The choirs repertoire includes everything from medieval to contemporary and experimental music. Motets and lieder for boys choir form the core of the touring repertoire, as do the choirs own arrangements of quintessentially Viennese music, waltzes and polkas by Strauss, Lanner, and Lehar. In recent years, they have performed with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Oslo Philharmonic and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Recent guest conductors include Pierre Boulez, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Mariss Jansons, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti (honorary member of the Hofmusikkapelle), Kent Nagano, Seiji Ozawa and Simone Young. |
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| More Information: |
Website: http://www.thehanovertheatre.org/shows/showDetail.php?showID... E-mail: info@thehanovertheatre.org Entered by: The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts |
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