Vienna Boys Choir
Date:     Thursday - Nov 5, 2009
Contact: hpac@andrews.edu

Thursday
November 5, 2009
7:00 P.M.
Reserved Seating Tickets $35
Andrews University Student Tickets $10
Please Note: Children 5 years of age and under will not be admitted to this concert out of respect for other audience members and the artist.

The brilliant Vienna Boys Choir, Wiener Sangerknaben, with its roots dating back nearly half a millennium ago, is performing at the Howard Performing Arts Center on the campus of Andrews University on Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

The choir is composed of boys between ages 10 and 14 perform music by Bruckner, Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert. Their repertoire includes an encompassing range of music, including medieval, motets, lieder, as well as contemporary and experimental music.

A major part of the boys' studies in music and performance are children's operas. In 2004 the Vienna Boys Choir performed in the premier of Raoul Gehringer’s Moby Dick, based on the novel by Herman Melville. In 2006, they performed Marchen Matrix by Titus Hollweg and Emanuel Schulz.

The young boys are chosen from over 250 boys who attend the Wiener Sangerknaben school where they study music as well as general education. Upon turning ten years of age, the most talented of the students are selected to be in one of the hundred choristers that make up the Vienna Boys Choir. The choristers are divided into 4 touring groups of equal standing that perform over 300 concerts total and for nearly half a million people each year. The groups travel world wide including every country in Europe, and the Americas, Asia, and Australia.

The Vienna Boys Choir dates back to 1498 when Emperor Maximilian I moved his court and musicians from Innsbruck to Vienna and requested six young boys to be part of his court musician group.

Call the box office at 888.467.6442 for tickets!