Music: Choirs

From Vienna. In Manhattan's big Carnegie Hall—a bit too big for their frail, clear trebles and altos—last week 20 Wiener Sängerknaben, aged 10 to 12, began a U. S. tour which will take them to the west coast and back. The Vienna Singing Boys, famed 439-year-old choir from Austria's old imperial palace give U. S. audiences Dixie and the Star-Spangled Banner in English, chaste church music, operettas in which they rouge and dress up as laundresses, guardsmen, 18th Century gentlemen and ladies.

Goodwill. At the top of Manhattan's Empire State Building one day last...

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