One of the world’s most prestigious choral groups will be making Estevan one of their tour stops on Nov. 23.
The Vienna Boys Choir, founded in 1498, will be on stage in St. Paul’s United Church starting at 7:30 p.m. Advance tickets for the event are available at Henders Drugs.
The choir’s history is heavy with decades of travel and music. It features the brightest and clearest young voices of Europe.
Emperor Maximillian I moved his court and its musicians to Vienna just prior to the 14th century giving instructions that there were to be six singing boys among the musicians. Thus, the choir was founded as the Vienna Hofmusikkapelle that became the Vienna Boys Choir.
There are about 100 young choristers today between the ages of 10 and 14, and they are divided into four touring choirs that give up to 300 performances each year in front of more than 500,000 people.
Their repertoire includes everything from medieval to contemporary and experimental music.
The choir has its own arrangements of quintessentially Viennese music such as waltzes and polkas by Lehar, Lanner and Strauss.
The concert is being brought into the Energy City by the Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Councils and their Stars for Saskatchewan programming arm. OSAC presents over 300 live community and school concerts during the course of the year with approximately 75,000 people in the province enjoying the results of their programming.
Assistance is provided by Saskatchewan Lotteries, Saskatchewan Arts Council, Canadian Heritage and the City of Estevan.
