After the speeches the Philharmonia Orchestra performed Schut's Symphony in C. Major and same time a massed military orchestra gave a in the "Heldenplatz" of the Imperial Palace, As the "Fortnight" opened on Sunday all the churches had special music and were crowded to the doors. In the evening the first of & series of chamber music and songs composed by Schubert was given by the Gottesmann quintetto ud different soloists in the courtyard of the little house in Nussdorfor Street where Schubert was born, These concerts proved to. popular that four additional had to be added to the five originally arranged. The "Forellon (trout) Fountain" at the end-of the enclosure enhanced the significance of the Furellen Qu.n-fette, which-was usually found on these programmes, One of the most delightful fen. tures of the fortnight was the series Of simultaneous out-of-door concerts given by groups from the Austrian Workers Choral Unions, who sang choruses in the different parks of the city, not forgetting any spots emnnected with Schubert, such a his statue in the Stadt "Park, another park named for him, the' var-fous houses where he lived or the haunts he frequented. In the early evening all these choruses met at the Town Hall, where they were Joined by the trumpeters of the State Opera, There, on the steps of the Town Hall illuminated for the occasion, the joint chorus of four thousand sang to the multitudes crowed round them.
The programmes of the open air theatre in the Palace Ganiens were dedicated to Schubert, whether the numbers. were vocal" orchestral oF dance, Especially appropriate were the concerts given by the "singing boys" of the former Imperial Choir Institute, to which Schubert him-elf belonged in his time.. Besides their usual services in the Palace Chapel, now ofen to the public, they ang Schubert's early operetta "The Faithful Sentinel, written while he was himself one of the boy:
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