Vienna Boys Choir brought down the house with a program of folk songs — and drums

If your vision of a boy choir sound is ethereal weightlessness, it’s not the Vienna Boys Choir you’re thinking of. Although the English have cultivated that light floating singing, the Viennese have gone in for hearty brightness — a straight vibrato-less production that penetrates rather than soars. This is the sound that a Vienna Boys Choir touring group of 23 singers brought to their performance at Georgetown’s St. John’s Episcopal Church on Sunday in one of their trademark programs — mostly sacred music in the first half and mostly folk songs in the second.

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