The Goderich Signal-Star, 1965-03-25, Page 16toiunil
The world-faanotis- Columbus
B•oyclictir wilt thighlight the
1965-66 season for the Goderich
Community Concert Association
it was learned this week.
Mrs. C. I-1. Edw•ard, Concert
Campaign Chairman, made the
annotincement as she launched
the official mernber§hip drive
for next season.,
"This Concert will have a tre-
rnentiqus,--app-eal
hinging our campaign on this
quality booking," she said. "We
are hoping to raise our 'mem-
bership to 600 this' year as top
bookings are. an expensive
The choir origine'ted as a corn-
muoity enterprise in Columbus,
Ohio, led by He'rbert• Huffman,
then.' minister of (music at the
Broad Street Presbyterian
(hurch. Assisted by the Ki-
wanis Club and the Broad Street
Church, he founded the COI,
umbus Boychoir School in 1940
with an enrolment of 30 boys
from ithe city.
' Almiist at once 'the choir at-
4trac-ted----attention---fer--beynord
the city limits and after local
and then national 'radio per-
forman,ces, the boys captured
the hearts and critical praise of
New Yorkers when they made
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T� ivSe
their. metrepolitan debut in
Town Hall in. 1943.
Annual sell-out tours, which
carried the Chair to packed
Wises throughout the United
States and Canada, endeared
the bays to millions. Concerts
were given in• Carnegie Hall,
the Academy of Music in Phila-
delphia, and' 'virtually every
principal auditorium • in the
eountrY. '" •
-JyMvg-wi4the
New York Philharanonic, the
Philadelphia orchestra, the NBC
Syniphony under Tovseanini, and
the Bach-. Ariaroup:--,Ther•
made a :him for MO called
"America's Singing Boys° which
told the story of the BoYiebeir
and its school in 8,000 theatres
at .home and abroad. The State
Deivrtanent included the Bev -
choir School iri'one of its filans
for •diStribution • around the
world.
In 1950 the school moved to
Princeton,'N.J., to occupy the
,former Lambert estate; known
as "Albemarle." Here, an a
lovely, spacious residential
en-
virornnent, the schooloffers an
pportunity for coinedanus-
Leal and academic training of
high standard to qualified boys
regardless of religious ocr social
backgrem4: Regular academic
instruction in grades four
through pine is afforded, along
with a full program of activ-
ities, pipits spending their days
muleh as they Would in any
school,. .
The 'curriculum differs from
thatoof other .§choolts only in
its emphasis•on music, the daily
schedule ineltaing three hOurs
of .rehearsal. Provision is also'
made 'for individual lessons and
practice tin piano and other in-
truments--- - •
Enrolment an the ninth
grade is normally small, for by
.tbat time hayshave become
=Wavering t errors- -or' baritorieS'
instead of the true sopranos.
and altos demanded by the Boy -
choir.
School Routine'
Even ,While on 'concert tour,
the - 27 selected singers from
the student :body of 70; accom-
panied by teachers, have e near-
ly normal school routine, Their
specially outfitted bus, the
"Schoolhouse on Wheels," be-
sides a five-octalve Natio and a
kitchenette, contains desks at
the Seats and 'a public address
st- 11 so tha.Lregular---seheol
classes can be conducted while
under way.
'The bus is parked at stop-
over hotels and serves as a class-
room annex. In this manner
the boys keep abreast In their
studies while enjoying the
and educational benefits of 'bra -
yea and while tbrinv.ng Antsiiea1
pleasure to audiencea throUgh.-
out the country.
In the 'spring of 1956 Herbert
Huffman, musiteaa director and
hep4 of the school since the'
founde4 `the instrtutlon 'decid-
ed to turn his attention to other
pursuits, and his anantle. fell en
the Shoulders of bis antr_Apa_117.
ist-anitt-rasdo'fite driector fiar
the previous eight years, Donald
T. Bryant. At the same time
a new headmaster was aippint-
&Un thereon of Dr. T.- Rob-
ert Bassett. Dr. Baksett was
succeeded in the Spring •of 1961,
by Mr. Lauren D. Rhine. Mr.
Rhine carne to the school With
experience inacbninistrative
work in independent schools.
A. major new laurel. was add-
ed in 1967 when the Boychoir
was chosen (by the State Depart-
ment and ANTA (American Na-
tional Theatre and Academy)
as 'the first •youth group to re-
present the , United States
abroad under, President Eisen-
hower's—In H:terrratior,F0gram
for Cultural • Presentations.
Travelling by plane, the !Choir
toured 17 Semth and Central
American countries over a span
of 11 'weeks, singing to over
40,000 people not 'counting radio
and, television audiences. • A
high point an the tour . was
reatehed When the 27 bays un-
der their director Donald 'Bry-
ant 'appeared in Buena Aires
in a. joint concert with Argen-
tina's National Symphony .Orch-
estra before 4000 at the world's
largest opeo, house and receiv-
ed a standing 'ovation. •
Rave notices' ainaeared in
local papers .all along the way
7fEe--8,liate—D e -
parlament from foreign service
offi...eefs testified to the triumph-
ant success, of the tOur.---Addir,
Fiona' recognition 'cam (froin
the National Patel -glow' of
1V1usic Olulbs in the • form of.an
award, for effective presentation
of American Music in other
coilntries.
Radio .City
Still another thistorpanaking
event occurred in the winters
of 1958-69, 195960, when a
group of .30 Boychair singens
performed in the Christmas
show at Radio City Music Ha11;
the engagement ran for seven
wee S'
was on. a transcontinental tem -
when the show opened, the boys
who participated were members
of the resident or training choir,
mostly youngster S in 'the 4th,
5th and 6th 'grades. Classes
were conducted an their dress -
tr-
Art
ant. wdon between, shews
other timethe bon
taken. to points of• ettnet
catiooal and recreational
est n New York City.
Television has featuref
130ych•air 41%1;4
"Omnibus," Steve Allen,
Go•dfreyfi and the Bell
phone Hour, and its 'Ohi
carols on film:and .cu,se
keep •Ageggsf„,...orrAroa
scores of' stations- acrw
country. The bops have',
formed' with Leonard
at_aslA_Ire„ New York alhilh.
le, with Eileen. Parvell,',
Peerce, Frank brieff'and.0
of the Bach Aria GrOtta;'''
Eric Leinsdorf and the
University Chorus, with
Waning and his Music
shop ,gronp at, Shawnee,'
and many ''other top.
They sang at the 75th fbi
dinner for Harry S. '
and Several times enterta
the .guests ,of New Jersey's'
ernor 'and 'Mrs. Robert
at their mansion 1 Prin
• ' Ullar-45ee*.
bums,: "Festival of Sangs,ha
To The World," and "8f
for the Joy of. It," have.
selling well in all parts -0
world, including Australia,
an and Europe as Wed' as,
United States.
Year
The following is a translation dew panes; -Jacques scrape
of an article which appeared' floors; as to Pierre, the tenor
in Figaro, the leading news- he isn't sure what he wants t
paper of Paris. It deals with a do. "Of course," joke the otth-
, group of French troubadorirs ers, The is from Corsica."
who have won international ac- In addition to the re -establish -
claim and will_ be appearing at ment of the Chateau, the com-
the final presentation of the
season' for the Goslerich, Com -
triunity 'Concert Association on Audition's Sought
Saturday.
Lice 13th century and another
It has 37 roams, aiower of By, Talented
of the 16th—in brief, a genuine,
historic ehateau. That is the youngsters
very iniposing deeor chosen by
Varel and Bailly and their Com- W: M. Cameron, director of
•
pally, the Ch'anteurs de Paris, music for public schools, has
to spend quiet vlac‘ations and described the forthcoming- ap-
find their own France all over pearance of the Columbus 'Boy-
agaio,
!choir as a 'ill:ague experience"
s pany Wallis to bring back the
, brilliance it o•ncehad to the
o open-air theatre which is at the
end of the park. "It is the
only lath -century open-air thea-
tre in all of the Ile -de• -France,"
says Charly .Bailly. "Our dream
would be to give concerts there.
We would call on our friends
Jacques Charon, Jacqueline
Francois, Aimee • Mortimer,
Dario Moreno, etc."
The dream is that Leveville
will become a ,ncl,v rendezvous
of., artists. •
The prse;nt-day reality is that
the Varel and Bailly Chanteurs
de Paris are working madly, to
prepare thesongs for their next
tour which. will include the
Goderich 'Community ,Concert.
, -
On tourfor the, pat six years, !for local youngsters.
they have travelled over the • Far talented youngsters, be -
roads of the United States nine 1 tween the ages of nine and 14,
months out of the 12. A sue- ! will be eligible for auditions •to
cess? They have become ex- I join itheirattR wh..en_dt_ap.pnars..
--Trem-elypcp r-,there-TF5e-T3FO-1 as fie highlight of the 1965-66
mature
grams'say "Vail -ITU -and Buy- season- of the Community Con- •
yee"). They have enchanted cert.
Elsa Maxwell, the Mayor of . "I am sure there will be a •
New york and, among others, !number of .local youngsters who Hearing Aid
the public of Las Vegas' and' of ;will be thrilled to „take this
the WaldoLf-Astoriain record opportunity for an audition
fil ns with such a prominent choir,"
They have jut reconquered .3aid Mr. Cameron.
Paris and now, in the shade if ' Donald Bryant, Musical Direc-
. the Chetau de Leveville, thby for of the Boychoir, will be on
are holding war C 0 UnCIHS but stage immediately after the
also they are recuperating a concert to hold auditions for
kittle. This is 'their retreat, a boys interested in entering, the
retreat that seems to have some- ; Columbus' Boychoir' School in
thing of the life of ,a family Princeton. The audition ,is
"pension" about it. For each brief, -a simple- test designed
of the eight singers comes with to .discover potential or innate
his family and his children (ad- musialal.ability.
together "they have tripled the Talented boys will be invited
population of Bailleu-Levegue to apply for admission to the
which has only 10 inhabitants). school, which provides a regular
They carrip everywhere in the course of ,study in grades four.
house. At the present time to nine, in addition to musical
they are busy redoing the din- training and concert experience.
big room. They all take part —
in it under the direction of an
architect from Chartres who
watches over it all ta that the
'restoration may :be 'carefully'
done and the pat preserved.
"Think of it, the Prince of
Conde was imprisoned here for
several ',months," •Andre Varel for dead. and disabled animals
explains proudly. "The cells
are still here in the sub -cellars.
There is 'even a walled room,
but to tell you the truth, we
are not that curious...."
The division of work is care-.,
full. Ronny prefer.--, to do the
plastering; Cesar cuts the, win-
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PROCLAMATION
Goderich
Community Concert Week
March 29 to Apr
• 630MIVIUNITir CONCERTS GROW IN
POPULARITY EACH YEAR
PLAN TO JOIN MARCH 29 to APRIL 3
This is only one of three outstanding
1)rograms to be. presented 'during the
19654M6 season.
All Concerts Will Be Held In The Goderich District Collegiate Auditorium
MARCH 29 TO APRIL 3
• Thk$0,94 Ow efforts Of The Goderich Community:Concert Association, residents
of Goderich, the surrouridititiircivinihhis and (iffier Comnitinifiet MAW teititity ate -
afforded the opportunity to attend fine concerts.
Entertainment is designed to,provide music that willz appeal to all,
Therefoi* the Municipal Council of .the Town of Goderich has directed that
the week of! March 20 to April 3 be proclaimed "GODERICH COMMUNITY CONCERT
WE'EK".
Compliments of" .„-
GODERICH ELEVATOR & TRANSIT CO,
524-086
FRANK WALKOM
Mayor
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