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Deanna Durbin and the Vienna Boys Choir (Wiener Sängerknaben) perform the Bach – Gounod setting of Ave Maria and that is what is heard here. This performance was filmed in the fall of 1937 for the movie “Made About Music” when Durbin was 15 years old. The boys choir you see, whose voices was not used in this recording, is the St. Luke’s Choristers from Long Beach, CA. This recording of Ave Maria is wonderfully sung yet does not let us hear the true beauty of her voice that was a precious gift from God.
