The following entries were favorites from User:Gerda Arendt/Stories 2023.
Jesu, meine Freude
(Jesus, my joy),
a
motet by Bach,
has a complex symmetrical structure
in which six
hymn stanzas
alternate with five
Bible verses?
Diana Tishchenko,
a violinist from Ukraine,
played Skoryk's
Melody
on a tour of the
Kyiv Symphony Orchestra to Germany
in April 2022.
The
Twelve Fantasias for Viola da Gamba solo,
published by the composer
Georg Philipp Telemann in 1735, were believed lost
but published again in 2016.
Leonore von Zadow-Reichling and Günter von Zadow
received the first biennial
Abel Prize of
Köthen
for their efforts to retrieve and publish
compositions by
Carl Friedrich Abel.
A French team,
with
Patrice Chéreau and
Pierre Boulez,
created the
Jahrhundertring
of
Wagner's
Ring cycle
at the centenary
Bayreuth Festival in 1976,
causing "a near-riot".
Andris Nelsons conducted
Bartok's
Viola Concerto
and
Mahler's
Fifth Symphony
in the final concert with his
Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie.
pictured:
Jonathon Heyward announcing on 3 March 2022
at the
Stadttheater Minden that the concert
(which included Stavinsky's
The Firebird)
was dedicated to
the victims of the Russian invasion into Ukraine
Claude Debussy described
his
Cello Sonata,
composed within a few weeks
in July 1915 at a
Normandy seaside town,
in a letter to his publisher
Durand
as of "almost classical form".
Rehearsing
Dvořák's Eighth Symphony,
conductor
Rafael Kubelík said:
"Gentlemen,
in Bohemia
the trumpets never call to battle –
they always call to the dance!".
heard 2013
When
Berit Lindholm
(18 October 1934 – 12 August 2023),
a
dramatic soprano of the
Royal Swedish Opera,
appeared as
Chrysothemis
at the
Royal Opera House,
a reviewer described her as
"tall, and remarkably slim for so epic a voice".
Berit Lindholm
performed as Wagner's
Isolde
at the
Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow
in a pioneering tour of the
Vienna State Opera
in 1971.
Beethoven's
Third Cello Sonata,
first performed in 1809,
has been described
as the first sonata for piano and cello
to treat the instruments as equal partners.
16 December 2020
(quirky in the all- Beethoven set)
In her 2021 composition with string orchestra,
This too shall pass
Raminta Šerkšnytė used
a
vibraphone for the flow of time,
a violin for the transience of humans,
and a "heavenly" cello?
Soprano
Jessye Norman
(15 September 1945 – 30 September 2019),
whose voice was described
as a "grand mansion of sound",
performed at
U.S. presidential inaugurations
and sang
La Marseillaise
at the
French Revolution's bicentennial.
After the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
shared the
Nobel Peace Prize, contributing author
Raymond Arritt
(September 19, 1957 – November 14, 2018)
said, "It's kind of neat:
I have, like, .002 percent of a Nobel prize now".
The Company of Heaven,
about angels, composed by
Benjamin Britten
for speakers, soloists, choir and orchestra,
and first aired by the
BBC on
Michaelmas,
29 September 1937,
contains "metrical spoken (shouted) male chorus".
Claus Wisser
founded the services company Wisag,
and co-founded the
Rheingau Musik Festival
which staged a concert of Orff's
Carmina Burana for his 60th birthday
Tabea Zimmermann
(born 8 October 1966)
prepared her own version of Bartók's
Viola Concerto
from the composer's sketches,
and played it at the
Casals Forum,
with the
Frankfurt Radio Symphony
conducted by
Christoph Eschenbach.
Alain Altinoglu
(born 9 October 1975)
conducted the opening concert of the
2023
Rheingau Musik Festival
at
Eberbach Abbey,
featuring Poulenc's
Stabat Mater
with the
MDR Rundfunkchor
and the
Frankfurt Radio Symphony.
Walls and the ceiling of the
Unionskirche
(Union Church)
in
Idstein are covered
with 38 oil paintings
from the
Dutch Golden Age school
of
Rubens.
In 2023,
a sculpture garden in
Praunheim
displayed abstract works by
Hans Steinbrenner
from different periods of his life,
and corresponding works
by his friends and students.
"
Sozusagen grundlos vergnügt"
("Call it causelessly merry")
was one of about 40 poems
by
Mascha Kaléko
set to music on a 2011 album.
"Ich freu mich, daß am Himmel Wolken ziehen"
Isabelle Cals,
who turned to singing after a degree in Chinese,
appeared as Wagner's Kundry
in a production of
Parsifal
at the
Stadttheater Minden
In
Der Ring in Minden,
the orchestra played at the back of the stage,
and the singers all turned towards it
to listen to the music
at the end.
John Eliot Gardiner performed
Bach's cantatas for
Reformation Day
in the
Schloßkirche, Wittenberg,
including
Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, BWV 79.
After signing the
Camp David Accords in 1978,
Prime Minister
Menachem Begin ended a speech
with a desire to sing the peace song
"
Hevenu shalom aleichem"
with the people of Israel.
Jesu, meine Freude
(Jesus, my joy),
a
motet by Bach,
has a complex symmetrical structure
in which six
hymn stanzas
alternate with five
Bible verses.
The hymn
"
Jesu, meine Freude"
by
Johann Franck and
Johann Crüger
mentions singing in defiance
of the "old dragon", death, and fear.
On 6 November 2016
Peter Reulein conducted
the premiere of his oratorio
Laudato si',
described as a Franciscan
Magnificat,
with more than 250 performers
at the
Limburg Cathedral.
Bach composed four dialogues
for his
cantata
O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60,
first performed 7 November 1723,
three between Fear and Hope,
and one between Fear and the
Voice of Christ.
Eric Sams remarked
"what bride ever had a finer wedding gift?"
of the song collection
Myrthen (Myrtles),
which
Robert Schumann dedicated to
Clara.
In 2016,
Edition Güntersberg
published
Twelve Fantasias for Viola da Gamba solo
by
Georg Philipp Telemann
that had been lost.
Leonore von Zadow-Reichling and Günter von Zadow (r.)
received the first biennial
Abel Prize of
Köthen
for their efforts to retrieve and publish
compositions by
Carl Friedrich Abel.
Kurdish civil engineer and politician
Hevrin Khalaf
(15 November 1984 – 12 October 2019),
who worked for tolerance
among Christians, Arabs, and Kurds, was killed in the
2019 Turkish offensive into Syria.
The 1964 church
for the new parish
Zu den heiligen Engeln
(To the Holy Angels)
in
Hannover
was designed by
Josef Bieling
to symbolize the
tent of God among men.
Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist
Nun danket all und bringet Ehr
Soprano
Rachel Yakar,
who received international attention in 1977
as
Poppea with
Nikolaus Harnoncourt,
was also described as an "ideal"
Mélisande
and "a Mozartian at heart and in style".
Two
conductors
shared performances
of Verdi's
Messa da Requiem
in
St. Martin, Idstein.
Palmeri:
Misatango
Reulein:
Te Deum
look and listen to us
Benjamin Britten
(22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976),
composed
Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his
for the tenor voice of
Peter Pears,
using poetry from
A Divine Rapture by
Francis Quarles.
Thanksgiving
Lea Ackermann,
a German nun of the
Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa,
fought against
forced prostitution and
sex tourism
in East Africa.
Director
Frank Stähle revived
the choir and orchestra of
Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium
and conducted them in
Mozart's Requiem
for the centenary of the
Lutherkirche in Wiesbaden.
Jerome Kohl
(November 27, 1946 – August 4, 2020),
a music theorist of the
University of Washington,
was recognized internationally
as an authority on the composer
Karlheinz Stockhausen,
publishing a book on his
Zeitmaße in 2017.
Contralto
Sonia Prina
(born 30 November 1975)
performed the title role
of Antonio Vivaldi's 1727 opera
Orlando furioso
at the
Oper Frankfurt,
staged as a
rocker.
Bernard Ładysz,
a
bass-baritone who performed in world premieres
of
Krzysztof Penderecki's music
in Hamburg and
in Salzburg,
was the only Polish singer to appear with
Maria Callas
(2 December 1923 – 16 September 1977).
Andréa Guiot appeared internationally
in French
soprano roles
such as
Mireille,
Marguerite,
Manon,
and Micaëla in Bizet's
Carmen,
which she recorded alongside
Maria Callas
in the title role.
The
Advent song
"
Macht hoch die Tür"
(Fling wide the door),
with text by
Georg Weissel written for the inauguration of
the church
where he would be ordained pastor a week later,
is number 1 in the
German Protestant hymnal.
Conductor Dessauer and composer Mawby (r.), 2012 |
Gabriel Dessauer
(born 4 December 1955)
conducted the premiere of Reger's
Hebbel Requiem
in the organ version of
Max Beckschäfer
with
a project choir at the
Marktkirche in Wiesbaden.
The prolific composer and
Westminster Cathedral conductor
Colin Mawby
said, "I cannot write choral music unless I work with choirs ...
I have to write for particular people".
Wilhelm II,
German Emperor,
called the
Kurhaus in Wiesbaden
"the most beautiful spa in the world"
at the opening ceremony.
Ignace Michiels
(born 7 December 1963)
of the
St. Salvator's Cathedral in Bruges
has been the
organist
for the German-Flemish
Reger-Chor
in works such as Reger's
Requiem.
Reger: Der 100. Psalm
Max Reger
composed "in new simplicity"
Unser lieben Frauen Traum,
a
motet suitable for
Advent,
about a dream of
Mary
of a tree growing in her.
In 1973
Luten Petrowsky
(10 December 1933 – 10 July 2023)
played the saxophone in a quartet
that made the first record
with jazz musicians
from both East and West Germany.
The
Advent hymn
"
O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf"
(O Saviour, tear open the heavens)
was written against a backdrop
of the
Thirty Years' War, the
plague,
and
witch trials.
Rabbi
Michael Robinson
(December 13, 1924 – July 20, 2006)
and 15 other
Reform rabbis
were arrested and jailed after answering Martin Luther King's
call to stand with him for civil rights in St. Augustine, Florida.
Erna Berger sang the title role
of Smetana's
The Bartered Bride
in a 1955 recording with
Wilhelm Schüchter
(15 December 1911 – 27 May 1974)
and the
Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie.
Prince Nikolaus Esterházy,
who commissioned
Beethoven's
Mass in C major
for his wife's
name day,
found it "unbearably ridiculous and detestable".
In 2018
Lydia Steier,
born in
Hartford, Connecticut,
became the first woman
to stage Mozart's
Die Zauberflöte
at the
Salzburg Festival.
The German
Advent song
"
Tochter Zion, freue dich"
has words by
Friedrich Heinrich Ranke
set to music used
for triumphant entrances
in two of
Handel's
oratorios.
Der neue
Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel
wurde 2023 in Köthen vorgestellt,
wo der Gambist
vor 300 Jahren geboren wurde.
The new
Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel
(AbelWV)
was introduced in
Köthen,
where the
viol virtuoso was born
on 22 December 1723.
"
Verbum caro factum est",
a Christmas
motet for six voices
by
Hans Leo Hassler
in the
Venetian polychoral style,
has been arranged
for
brass ensembles.
Rebekka Habermas,
a German historian
at the
University of Göttingen,
who also taught
in Paris, Montreal and New York,
focused on people
in the social and cultural conditions
of 19th-century Germany.
Heike Matthiesen
recorded a 2016 album
Guitar Ladies
of compositions for guitar solo by women
including Sidney Pratten (1821–1895),
María Luisa Anido,
Ida Presti,
Sofia Gubaidulina,
Sylvie Bodorová,
Annette Kruisbrink, and
Maria Linnemann
who had dedicated her work to the player.
A German theologian wrote
"
Vertraut den neuen Wegen"
(Trust the new ways)
to the melody of
Lob Gott getrost mit Singen
(Praise God confidently with singing)
to be sung at a wedding in
Eisenach
shortly before the
fall of the Wall.
The following entries were favorites from User:Gerda Arendt/Stories 2023.
Jesu, meine Freude
(Jesus, my joy),
a
motet by Bach,
has a complex symmetrical structure
in which six
hymn stanzas
alternate with five
Bible verses?
Diana Tishchenko,
a violinist from Ukraine,
played Skoryk's
Melody
on a tour of the
Kyiv Symphony Orchestra to Germany
in April 2022.
The
Twelve Fantasias for Viola da Gamba solo,
published by the composer
Georg Philipp Telemann in 1735, were believed lost
but published again in 2016.
Leonore von Zadow-Reichling and Günter von Zadow
received the first biennial
Abel Prize of
Köthen
for their efforts to retrieve and publish
compositions by
Carl Friedrich Abel.
A French team,
with
Patrice Chéreau and
Pierre Boulez,
created the
Jahrhundertring
of
Wagner's
Ring cycle
at the centenary
Bayreuth Festival in 1976,
causing "a near-riot".
Andris Nelsons conducted
Bartok's
Viola Concerto
and
Mahler's
Fifth Symphony
in the final concert with his
Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie.
pictured:
Jonathon Heyward announcing on 3 March 2022
at the
Stadttheater Minden that the concert
(which included Stavinsky's
The Firebird)
was dedicated to
the victims of the Russian invasion into Ukraine
Claude Debussy described
his
Cello Sonata,
composed within a few weeks
in July 1915 at a
Normandy seaside town,
in a letter to his publisher
Durand
as of "almost classical form".
Rehearsing
Dvořák's Eighth Symphony,
conductor
Rafael Kubelík said:
"Gentlemen,
in Bohemia
the trumpets never call to battle –
they always call to the dance!".
heard 2013
When
Berit Lindholm
(18 October 1934 – 12 August 2023),
a
dramatic soprano of the
Royal Swedish Opera,
appeared as
Chrysothemis
at the
Royal Opera House,
a reviewer described her as
"tall, and remarkably slim for so epic a voice".
Berit Lindholm
performed as Wagner's
Isolde
at the
Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow
in a pioneering tour of the
Vienna State Opera
in 1971.
Beethoven's
Third Cello Sonata,
first performed in 1809,
has been described
as the first sonata for piano and cello
to treat the instruments as equal partners.
16 December 2020
(quirky in the all- Beethoven set)
In her 2021 composition with string orchestra,
This too shall pass
Raminta Šerkšnytė used
a
vibraphone for the flow of time,
a violin for the transience of humans,
and a "heavenly" cello?
Soprano
Jessye Norman
(15 September 1945 – 30 September 2019),
whose voice was described
as a "grand mansion of sound",
performed at
U.S. presidential inaugurations
and sang
La Marseillaise
at the
French Revolution's bicentennial.
After the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
shared the
Nobel Peace Prize, contributing author
Raymond Arritt
(September 19, 1957 – November 14, 2018)
said, "It's kind of neat:
I have, like, .002 percent of a Nobel prize now".
The Company of Heaven,
about angels, composed by
Benjamin Britten
for speakers, soloists, choir and orchestra,
and first aired by the
BBC on
Michaelmas,
29 September 1937,
contains "metrical spoken (shouted) male chorus".
Claus Wisser
founded the services company Wisag,
and co-founded the
Rheingau Musik Festival
which staged a concert of Orff's
Carmina Burana for his 60th birthday
Tabea Zimmermann
(born 8 October 1966)
prepared her own version of Bartók's
Viola Concerto
from the composer's sketches,
and played it at the
Casals Forum,
with the
Frankfurt Radio Symphony
conducted by
Christoph Eschenbach.
Alain Altinoglu
(born 9 October 1975)
conducted the opening concert of the
2023
Rheingau Musik Festival
at
Eberbach Abbey,
featuring Poulenc's
Stabat Mater
with the
MDR Rundfunkchor
and the
Frankfurt Radio Symphony.
Walls and the ceiling of the
Unionskirche
(Union Church)
in
Idstein are covered
with 38 oil paintings
from the
Dutch Golden Age school
of
Rubens.
In 2023,
a sculpture garden in
Praunheim
displayed abstract works by
Hans Steinbrenner
from different periods of his life,
and corresponding works
by his friends and students.
"
Sozusagen grundlos vergnügt"
("Call it causelessly merry")
was one of about 40 poems
by
Mascha Kaléko
set to music on a 2011 album.
"Ich freu mich, daß am Himmel Wolken ziehen"
Isabelle Cals,
who turned to singing after a degree in Chinese,
appeared as Wagner's Kundry
in a production of
Parsifal
at the
Stadttheater Minden
In
Der Ring in Minden,
the orchestra played at the back of the stage,
and the singers all turned towards it
to listen to the music
at the end.
John Eliot Gardiner performed
Bach's cantatas for
Reformation Day
in the
Schloßkirche, Wittenberg,
including
Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, BWV 79.
After signing the
Camp David Accords in 1978,
Prime Minister
Menachem Begin ended a speech
with a desire to sing the peace song
"
Hevenu shalom aleichem"
with the people of Israel.
Jesu, meine Freude
(Jesus, my joy),
a
motet by Bach,
has a complex symmetrical structure
in which six
hymn stanzas
alternate with five
Bible verses.
The hymn
"
Jesu, meine Freude"
by
Johann Franck and
Johann Crüger
mentions singing in defiance
of the "old dragon", death, and fear.
On 6 November 2016
Peter Reulein conducted
the premiere of his oratorio
Laudato si',
described as a Franciscan
Magnificat,
with more than 250 performers
at the
Limburg Cathedral.
Bach composed four dialogues
for his
cantata
O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60,
first performed 7 November 1723,
three between Fear and Hope,
and one between Fear and the
Voice of Christ.
Eric Sams remarked
"what bride ever had a finer wedding gift?"
of the song collection
Myrthen (Myrtles),
which
Robert Schumann dedicated to
Clara.
In 2016,
Edition Güntersberg
published
Twelve Fantasias for Viola da Gamba solo
by
Georg Philipp Telemann
that had been lost.
Leonore von Zadow-Reichling and Günter von Zadow (r.)
received the first biennial
Abel Prize of
Köthen
for their efforts to retrieve and publish
compositions by
Carl Friedrich Abel.
Kurdish civil engineer and politician
Hevrin Khalaf
(15 November 1984 – 12 October 2019),
who worked for tolerance
among Christians, Arabs, and Kurds, was killed in the
2019 Turkish offensive into Syria.
The 1964 church
for the new parish
Zu den heiligen Engeln
(To the Holy Angels)
in
Hannover
was designed by
Josef Bieling
to symbolize the
tent of God among men.
Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist
Nun danket all und bringet Ehr
Soprano
Rachel Yakar,
who received international attention in 1977
as
Poppea with
Nikolaus Harnoncourt,
was also described as an "ideal"
Mélisande
and "a Mozartian at heart and in style".
Two
conductors
shared performances
of Verdi's
Messa da Requiem
in
St. Martin, Idstein.
Palmeri:
Misatango
Reulein:
Te Deum
look and listen to us
Benjamin Britten
(22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976),
composed
Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his
for the tenor voice of
Peter Pears,
using poetry from
A Divine Rapture by
Francis Quarles.
Thanksgiving
Lea Ackermann,
a German nun of the
Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa,
fought against
forced prostitution and
sex tourism
in East Africa.
Director
Frank Stähle revived
the choir and orchestra of
Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium
and conducted them in
Mozart's Requiem
for the centenary of the
Lutherkirche in Wiesbaden.
Jerome Kohl
(November 27, 1946 – August 4, 2020),
a music theorist of the
University of Washington,
was recognized internationally
as an authority on the composer
Karlheinz Stockhausen,
publishing a book on his
Zeitmaße in 2017.
Contralto
Sonia Prina
(born 30 November 1975)
performed the title role
of Antonio Vivaldi's 1727 opera
Orlando furioso
at the
Oper Frankfurt,
staged as a
rocker.
Bernard Ładysz,
a
bass-baritone who performed in world premieres
of
Krzysztof Penderecki's music
in Hamburg and
in Salzburg,
was the only Polish singer to appear with
Maria Callas
(2 December 1923 – 16 September 1977).
Andréa Guiot appeared internationally
in French
soprano roles
such as
Mireille,
Marguerite,
Manon,
and Micaëla in Bizet's
Carmen,
which she recorded alongside
Maria Callas
in the title role.
The
Advent song
"
Macht hoch die Tür"
(Fling wide the door),
with text by
Georg Weissel written for the inauguration of
the church
where he would be ordained pastor a week later,
is number 1 in the
German Protestant hymnal.
Conductor Dessauer and composer Mawby (r.), 2012 |
Gabriel Dessauer
(born 4 December 1955)
conducted the premiere of Reger's
Hebbel Requiem
in the organ version of
Max Beckschäfer
with
a project choir at the
Marktkirche in Wiesbaden.
The prolific composer and
Westminster Cathedral conductor
Colin Mawby
said, "I cannot write choral music unless I work with choirs ...
I have to write for particular people".
Wilhelm II,
German Emperor,
called the
Kurhaus in Wiesbaden
"the most beautiful spa in the world"
at the opening ceremony.
Ignace Michiels
(born 7 December 1963)
of the
St. Salvator's Cathedral in Bruges
has been the
organist
for the German-Flemish
Reger-Chor
in works such as Reger's
Requiem.
Reger: Der 100. Psalm
Max Reger
composed "in new simplicity"
Unser lieben Frauen Traum,
a
motet suitable for
Advent,
about a dream of
Mary
of a tree growing in her.
In 1973
Luten Petrowsky
(10 December 1933 – 10 July 2023)
played the saxophone in a quartet
that made the first record
with jazz musicians
from both East and West Germany.
The
Advent hymn
"
O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf"
(O Saviour, tear open the heavens)
was written against a backdrop
of the
Thirty Years' War, the
plague,
and
witch trials.
Rabbi
Michael Robinson
(December 13, 1924 – July 20, 2006)
and 15 other
Reform rabbis
were arrested and jailed after answering Martin Luther King's
call to stand with him for civil rights in St. Augustine, Florida.
Erna Berger sang the title role
of Smetana's
The Bartered Bride
in a 1955 recording with
Wilhelm Schüchter
(15 December 1911 – 27 May 1974)
and the
Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie.
Prince Nikolaus Esterházy,
who commissioned
Beethoven's
Mass in C major
for his wife's
name day,
found it "unbearably ridiculous and detestable".
In 2018
Lydia Steier,
born in
Hartford, Connecticut,
became the first woman
to stage Mozart's
Die Zauberflöte
at the
Salzburg Festival.
The German
Advent song
"
Tochter Zion, freue dich"
has words by
Friedrich Heinrich Ranke
set to music used
for triumphant entrances
in two of
Handel's
oratorios.
Der neue
Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel
wurde 2023 in Köthen vorgestellt,
wo der Gambist
vor 300 Jahren geboren wurde.
The new
Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel
(AbelWV)
was introduced in
Köthen,
where the
viol virtuoso was born
on 22 December 1723.
"
Verbum caro factum est",
a Christmas
motet for six voices
by
Hans Leo Hassler
in the
Venetian polychoral style,
has been arranged
for
brass ensembles.
Rebekka Habermas,
a German historian
at the
University of Göttingen,
who also taught
in Paris, Montreal and New York,
focused on people
in the social and cultural conditions
of 19th-century Germany.
Heike Matthiesen
recorded a 2016 album
Guitar Ladies
of compositions for guitar solo by women
including Sidney Pratten (1821–1895),
María Luisa Anido,
Ida Presti,
Sofia Gubaidulina,
Sylvie Bodorová,
Annette Kruisbrink, and
Maria Linnemann
who had dedicated her work to the player.
A German theologian wrote
"
Vertraut den neuen Wegen"
(Trust the new ways)
to the melody of
Lob Gott getrost mit Singen
(Praise God confidently with singing)
to be sung at a wedding in
Eisenach
shortly before the
fall of the Wall.