Almost Angels
Despite his father's opinions, a working-class Austrian boy joins the Vienna Boys' Choir and proves to be unusually talented. However, the head chorister becomes jealous and will do everything in his…
Almost Angels
Despite his father's opinions, a working-class Austrian boy joins the Vienna Boys' Choir and proves to be unusually talented. However, the head chorister becomes jealous and will do everything in his power to ruin his rival's performance. Supported avidly by his mother and more reluctantly at first by his father, a working-class Austrian boy joins the Vienna Choirboys, where he proves to be unusually talented. The standard initiation ordeals which new boys must endure at the hands of their seniors are intensified in his case because he has aroused the jealousy of Peter, the head chorister, by singing a solo which Peter had long sung himself. The fact is that Peter's voice is breaking, and with a broken voice often comes a broken heart. But, encouraged by the director and all the boys, Peter begins to develop in a new role as composer and conductor. —Paul Emmons <pemmons@wcupa.edu> Despite his father's opinions, a working-class Austrian boy joins the Vienna Boys' Choir and proves to be unusually talented. However, the head chorister, Peter, becomes jealous and will do everything in his power to ruin his rival's public performance. —mattyscatty50 Set against the majestic backdrop of Vienna, Austria, comes a heartwarming tale of friendship, loyalty and perseverance. Despite his father's objections, 12-year-old Tony joins the famed Vienna Boys' Choir, but the working-class youth struggles to fit in and Peter, an older boy jealous of Tony's talent, will do everything in his power to get him thrown out, including an attempt to ruin Tony's public performance.
Almost Angels
Comedy,Family,Music
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Despite his father's opinions, a working-class Austrian boy joins the Vienna Boys' Choir and proves to be unusually talented. However, the head chorister becomes jealous and will do everything in his power to ruin his rival's performance. Supported avidly by his mother and more reluctantly at first by his father, a working-class Austrian boy joins the Vienna Choirboys, where he proves to be unusually talented.
The standard initiation ordeals which new boys must endure at the hands of their seniors are intensified in his case because he has aroused the jealousy of Peter, the head chorister, by singing a solo which Peter had long sung himself. The fact is that Peter's voice is breaking, and with a broken voice often comes a broken heart. But, encouraged by the director and all the boys, Peter begins to develop in a new role as composer and conductor.
—Paul Emmons <pemmons@wcupa.edu> Despite his father's opinions, a working-class Austrian boy joins the Vienna Boys' Choir and proves to be unusually talented. However, the head chorister, Peter, becomes jealous and will do everything in his power to ruin his rival's public performance. —mattyscatty50 Set against the majestic backdrop of Vienna, Austria, comes a heartwarming tale of friendship, loyalty and perseverance.
Despite his father's objections, 12-year-old Tony joins the famed Vienna Boys' Choir, but the working-class youth struggles to fit in and Peter, an older boy jealous of Tony's talent, will do everything in his power to get him thrown out, including an attempt to ruin Tony's public performance..