Steiner, who's 15, feels better about admitting girls into the choir.
#Locked heart all boys full#
He and his friend Maximilian Steiner relax after a full day of classes in the choir's boarding school. SCHMITZ: Thirteen-year-old Johannes Ferber hasn't yet warmed up to the idea of choir girls taking classes alongside the choir boys. I'm a bit skeptical as to how well the school will function with girls. JOHANNES FERBER: (Through interpreter) I was quite surprised to hear they're letting girls into our school. That last part will change starting this week. They're all holding books of sheet music in front of them. SCHMITZ: They're all dressed in navy suits, white shirts and ties. SCHMITZ: On this evening, the choir sings music from Beethoven to celebrate the composer's 250th birthday. REGENSBURGER DOMSPATZEN: (Singing in German). And through the next thousand years, its members have sung the music of countless composers, each one's life going by in the relative blink of an eye, their work living on through these voices. SCHMITZ: A few centuries later, this boys choir was established. They represent the Regensburg Cathedral, whose gothic spires have dominated the city's skyline since the year 700. The boys range from 8 years old to teenagers. ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE: The Cathedral Sparrows seem to be chirping all at once on their bus ride from their boarding school to a concert venue in their Bavarian hometown of Regensburg. And the decision to allow girls into the prestigious choir and school is part of an effort to leave behind a troubled history. The choir is known as the Regensburg Domspatzen, or Cathedral Sparrows in English.
One of the oldest boys choirs in Europe recently began admitting girls for the first time since it was founded more than a thousand years ago.
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