In 1702 the president of Budapest University was getting ready to open the institution for its 66th year. To sing at that occasion he invited a group of students who had been harmonizing in taverns and public squares. In more than two centuries that followed this first formal recognition, the Budapest University Chorus extended its fame far beyond Hungary, is today hailed as one of the finest choirs in the world. At the invitation of the Yale Glee Club, the 42 men who make up the present chorus arrived last fortnight in...
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