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despised and rejected
singing the praises of

the scuttled the banned and those who have just given up just given up

Good article

Great Dismal Swamp maroons

A new experience: I found the article in the sandbox of PumpkinSky when he was blocked, rescued it with the help of 17 others for Main page history and nominated it for GA.

My contribution to the article: "These groups are very inspirational. As details unfold, we are increasingly able to show how people have the ability, as individuals and communities, to take control of their lives, even under oppressive conditions."

If you want the author to be free to write more articles like that, you can simply sign here, for background see his talk and archives and more here --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:04, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Did you know ...

... that Samuel Barber derived his choral composition Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) from his successful Adagio for Strings, showing "the work's sense of spirituality"?

... that Bach's chorale cantata Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10, is based not on a chorale, but on the Magnificat sung by Mary when she visited Elizabeth (pictured)? (2 July 2011, Feast of the Visitation)
... that Bach has a trumpet tell God's glory in cantata Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, BWV 76 , first performed in the Thomaskirche, but oboe d'amore and viola da gamba express "brotherly devotion"? (7 July 2011 - I dedicate my first GA to BarkingMoon (talk · contribs) who made these cantatas lead DYK a year ago and left - for lack of "brotherly devotion".)

Letting Go of the Past
It is frightening to let go
of the past. It is like letting go of something
that is precious. That includes the feeling for
everything that has been, and also, for what was
once a solid identity built on deprivation.
Letting go of the past
must be done gradually and with
special care;
one old belief at a time
and only one fear. ...
Thank you, Poeticbent

Did you know ...

... that Samuel Barber derived his choral composition Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) from his successful Adagio for Strings, showing "the work's sense of spirituality"? (for UO)
... that in Handel's Messiah, Part II contains the famous Hallelujah Chorus and the oratorio's longest movement, the air for alto He was despised? (for BM and GFH)
... that Bach's St Matthew Passion is structured in 67 movements, and tells the Passion based on the Gospel of Matthew, Picander's contemporary poetry, and chorales?

Music for Easter

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Sicut cervus desiderat at fontes
Charles Wood: Halleluja
Orlando di Lasso: Surrexit pastor bonus
W. A. Mozart: Spatzenmesse

Did you know ...

... that Patrice Chéreau, born 2 November 1944, staged the 1976 centenary production of Der Ring des Nibelungen (pictured), conducted by Pierre Boulez? (DYK Opera 2 November 2012)
... that Helene Wildbrunn, a celebrated Wagnerian soprano at the Vienna State Opera and La Scala, began her career in 1907 as a contralto at the Stadttheater Dortmund? (DYK 2 August 2012)
... that Sebastian Weigle, named "Conductor of the Year" by Opernwelt three times between 2003 and 2006, performed Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Frankfurt Opera? (DYK 23 March 2012)
... that Ulf Schirmer, director of the Oper Leipzig, conducted Richard Wagner's early opera Die Feen as part of the Wagner Year 2013, to be performed in concert at the Bayreuth Festival? (DYK 21 February 2012)
... that soprano Janis Martin appeared at the Zurich Opera as Isolde in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde? (DYK 6 November 2010)
... that soprano June Card appeared as Freia and Gutrune in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, conducted by Michael Gielen and staged by Ruth Berghaus at the Frankfurt Opera? (DYK 27 August 2010)

Operatic Did you know ...

... that Camille Saint-Saëns reflected Japonism, using "oriental"
pentatonic harmony in La princesse jaune (The Yellow Princess),
premiered on 12 June 1872?

... that Richard Strauss, born 11 June 1864, was not permitted to study Wagner's music as a boy and bought a score of Tristan und Isolde (opening picured) at age 16?
... that Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, termed by the composer "eine Handlung" (an action) and reputedly unperformable, premiered at the Munich Opera on 10 June 1865?

A Birthday

... that Felice Bauer and Franz Kafka first met 100 years ago today in Prague, exchanged hundreds of letters, and were engaged twice? (13 August 2012)
... that Ottla Kafka, the youngest and dearest sister of Franz Kafka, died in the Holocaust because she divorced her Catholic husband?
... that in 1922, Franz Kafka's story "Ein Hungerkünstler" first appeared in *Die neue Rundschau, a German literary magazine founded in 1890 and still in print?
... that the German left-liberal daily paper Berliner Börsen-Courier published stock exchange data from 1868, had a sports reporter from 1885 and made playwright Bertolt Brecht known in 1922?
... that Franz Kafka wrote the 109 Zürau Aphorisms at the estate of his sister Ottla and her husband in Zürau where he sought recovery from tuberculosis?
... that translators of Franz Kafka's works [1] must cope with ambiguous words like Verkehr, which refers both to traffic and sexual intercourse? (3 July 2013)

Did you know ...

... that two conductors shared performances of Verdi's Messa da Requiem in St. Martin, Idstein?
... that Johann Sebastian Bach reworked music from more than three decades earlier for the central piece Crucifixus in the symmetrical structure of his Mass in B minor?
... that the Baroque orchestra L'arpa festante produced the first recording of a Passion by Telemann and played Bach's Mass in B minor in the Cathedral of Trier? [2]

Did you know ...

... that the church choir Chor von St. Bonifatius (pictured) celebrates 150 years today, singing in Wiesbaden the premiere of a Missa solemnis by Colin Mawby, conducted by Gabriel Dessauer? (3 October 2012)
... that Franz Schubert's sixth and final mass was not performed until October 1829, almost a full year after his death? ([3])

Did you know ...

... that a French team created the Jahrhundertring (scene pictured) of Wagner's Ring Cycle at the centenary Bayreuth Festival in 1976, causing "a near-riot"? (Statistics November 2013)
... that Patrice Chéreau, the stage director of the centenary Ring Cycle in Bayreuth, directed the film Intimacy, which "sparked a debate about unsimulated sex on screen"?
... that the song "Ermutigung" by Wolf Biermann, encouraging people not to become hardened in hard times, was written for Peter Huchel, then under house arrest?
... that Johann Sebastian Bach reworked music from more than three decades earlier for the central piece Crucifixus in the symmetrical structure of his Mass in B minor ?

Music for Christmas, - did you know ...

... that at age 79, composer Heinrich Schütz (pictured) published only the recitatives of his Christmas Story and offered the other music for sale on request?
... that A Boy was Born (pictured), the first major vocal composition by Benjamin Britten, received its premiere in 1934 as a BBC broadcast?
... that Die Singphoniker recorded Schubert's complete part songs and Singphonic Christmas, European Christmas carols?

Christmas eve in St. Martin, Idstein

Andreas Hammerschmidt: "Machet die Tore weit"
George Frideric Handel: "Tochter Zion, freue dich"
Nikolaus Herman: "Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, alle gleich"
Giuseppe Jannacconi: "Ich verkündige euch große Freude"
Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel: Kündlich groß ist das gottselige Geheimnis (Christmas cantata, closing choral "Der Sohn des Vaters, Gott von Art")
Adam Gumpelzhaimer: "Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her"
Michael Praetorius: "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen"
Heinrich Schütz: Beschluss from Weihnachtshistorie

Chor St. Martin, strings of the Orchester St. Martin, conductor: Franz Fink

Christmas day in St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden

Michael Haydn: Missa Sancti Francisci Seraphici

Soloists, Chor von St. Bonifatius, members of the Hessisches Staatsorchester, conductor: Gabriel Dessauer

Did you know ...

... that Bach set Johann Gramann's hymn "Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren" in a cantata reflecting the end of the year with praise?
... that A Boy was Born (pictured), the first major vocal composition by Benjamin Britten, received its premiere in 1934 as a BBC broadcast?
... that the song "Ermutigung" by Wolf Biermann, encouraging people not to become hardened in hard times, was written for Peter Huchel, then under house arrest?

Clay

moon in pumpkin sky

the inheritance of loss

move like this sing blue

Did you know ...

... that a German Magnificat, or Song of Mary, ends the last work by composer Heinrich Schütz, known as his swan song? (for 28bytes)
... that in John Rutter's Latin Magnificat of 1990, the text of the second movement is a poem to Mary, "Of a Rose, a lovely Rose"?
... that Bach's chorale cantata Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10, is based not on a chorale, but on the Magnificat sung by Mary when she visited Elizabeth (pictured)? (for BarkingMoon)

Did you know ...

... that texts by the lawyer and successful opera librettist Christian Heinrich Postel are part of Bach's St John Passion?
... that when Michael Weiße published 157 songs in German for the Bohemian Brethren, it was the most extensive hymnal of his time, and the first organized by topic?
... that three of 16 stanzas of Paul Gerhardt's hymn "O Welt, sieh hier dein Leben" appear in Bach's Passions, two in St John and two in St Matthew?
... that Bach used a stanza from "Vater unser im Himmelreich", Luther's versification of the Lord's Prayer, as a chorale in his St John Passion?
... that the Sterbelied "Valet will ich dir geben" is described in a subtitle as a song of consolation, in which a pious heart bids farewell to this world?
... that the third verse of Martin Schalling's death song "Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr" concludes Bach's St John Passion in its first and fourth version, ending with "praise you for ever"?
... that in the structure of Bach's St John Passion (first page pictured), the centre of symmetry is "Durch dein Gefängnis ...", expressing: "By your prison ... came our freedom"?

Danket dem Herrn in St. Martin, Idstein

Festive multichoral sacred music by Heinrich Schütz

Did you know ... that in John Rutter's Latin Magnificat of 1990, the text of the second movement is a poem to Mary, "Of a Rose, a lovely Rose"?

Did you know ... that in the motet Locus iste, composed for the dedication of the votive chapel of Linz Cathedral, Anton Bruckner requests a pause "by carefully measuring out five beats"?

Did you know ...

... that Belinda Nash researched the history of the Witch of Pungo for decades?
... that Idstein Castle has a witches' tower?
... that Luther published his Reformation theses (amore et studio elucidandae) OTD in 1517?
... that a friend made his fist edit OTD ten years ago, to United Nations Convention against Torture, and went on to quote "the only real nation is humanity?
... that a friend left in disGrace OTD four years ago?
... that I try to keep calm and carry reformation on?

Sing pause peace 2014

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Did you know ...

... that the hymn "Jesu, meine Freude" (Jesus, my joy) by Johann Franck and Johann Crüger mentions singing in defiance of the "old dragon", death, and fear?
... that in the motet Locus iste, composed for the dedication of the votive chapel of Linz Cathedral, Anton Bruckner requests a pause "by carefully measuring out five beats"?
... that Geistliche Chormusik, a collection of 29 motets by Heinrich Schütz containing a "plea for peace", appeared in 1648, when the Thirty Years' War ended?

Happy birthday! - Did you know ...

... that Gabriel Dessauer conducted in Wiesbaden the premiere of Reger's Hebbel Requiem in the organ version of Max Beckschäfer?
... that the church choir Chor von St. Bonifatius celebrates 150 years today (3 October 2012), singing in Wiesbaden the premiere of a Missa solemnis by Colin Mawby, conducted by Gabriel Dessauer?
... that the Missa Tempore Quadragesimae by Michael Haydn, a mass suitable for Lent and Advent, contains a section in free tempo?

(shamelessly advertising "on earth peace")

Christmas eve in St. Martin, Idstein

Michael Praetorius: "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen"
Felix Mendelssohn: "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"
John Rutter: "Angels' Carol"
"O du fröhliche, o du selige gnadenbringende Weihnachtszeit"

Chor St. Martin, strings, conductor: Franz Fink

Christmas day in St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden

Charles Gounod: St. Cecilia Mass

Soloists, Chor von St. Bonifatius, Hessisches Staatsorchester

conductor: Gabriel Dessauer

Did you know ...

... that the Gloria by Karl Jenkins was premiered in 2010 by The Really Big Chorus?
... that Bach's Magnificat in E-flat major, BWV 243a, was performed for his first Christmas as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, but its initial performance may have been earlier in 1723 at a Marian feast there?

Schon gewusst? A Boy was Born ist Benjamin Brittens erstes großes Chorwerk.

Did you know ...

... that the international Reger-Chor celebrated 25 years, singing music by Bach, Van Nuffel, Ryelandt, and Reger's Hebbel-Requiem in Wiesbaden and Bruges?
Johann Sebastian Bach widmete 1733 seine Missa (Kyrie und Gloria) dem Kurfürsten in Dresden, behielt aber die Partitur.
... that the opera house for the Dresden court, Opernhaus am Taschenberg (pictured), opened in 1667 and was dedicated as a church in 1708?
... that Johann Sebastian Bach reworked music from more than three decades earlier for the central piece Crucifixus in the symmetrical structure of his Mass in B minor?

Did you know ...

... that Bach composed his cantata Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe, BWV 22, as an audition piece for the post of Thomaskantor in Leipzig, displaying a "sheer range of forms and musical expression"?
... that the position of Thomaskantor in Bach's time has been described as "one of the most respected and influential musical offices of Protestant Germany"?

Did you know ...

... that two conductors shared performances of Verdi's Messa da Requiem in St. Martin, Idstein?
... that Karl Jenkins conducted the premiere of his Te Deum, "a joyous, theatrical piece", in the European Capital of Culture of 2008, Liverpool?
... that Karl Jenkins derived Palladio, a concerto grosso for string orchestra named after Palladio, from his TV commercial for De Beers diamonds?
... that the Gloria by Karl Jenkins was premiered in 2010 by The Really Big Chorus? [5]



ein guter Baum tristis est anima mea wir danken dir

invisible
singing the praises of

the scuttled the banned and those who have just given up just given up

Did you know ...

... that Luther thought the communion hymn "Jesus Christus nostra salus" by Jan of Jenštejn, archbishop of Prague, was actually by martyr Jan Hus?
... that "Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, der von uns den Gotteszorn wandt", Luther's hymn for the Eucharist based on a Latin model, includes thoughts from his sermons during Lent of 1524?

Adoramus te, Christe (Gregor Aichinger):

Christus factus est (Anton Bruckner, aus WAB 9)

Dein Kreuz, o Herr, wollen tiefgeneigt wir verehren (Karl Fink)

Tristis est anima mea (Johann Kuhnau)

... that in a motet for Maundy Thursday, Tristis est anima mea, Jesus says in Gethsemane (pictured) "Sad is my soul even unto death"?
... that a chorale fantasia on "O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß" (O man, bewail thy sins so great) by Sebald Heyden concludes Part I of Bach's St Matthew Passion?

Thank you for reflecting the Gerechtigkeitsspirale!

Did you know ... that a church's 1510 spiral of justice declares: "Justice suffered in great need. Truth is slain dead. Faith has lost the battle"?

The poem ends with "Praise the right thing (integrity, decency)".

Did you know ...

... that the 1715 Bach cantata O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad, BWV 165, relates to Jesus teaching Nicodemus about "being born of water and of the Spirit"?
... that the organ in the village church of Störmthal was approved by Bach and dedicated with a cantata written for the occasion?
... that Ernst Pepping composed symphonies, a German mass in 1938, a Latin mass in 1948, and Jesus und Nikodemus?

50 years St. Martin, Idstein

Bach: Sinfonia from Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, Air & Gavotte
Brixi: Missa brevis in C
Bruckner: Locus iste
Rutter: Nun danket alle Gott

Did you know ...

... that Johannes Krahn designed the Bienenkorbhaus (Beehive House) in Frankfurt and St. Martin in Idstein?
... that two conductors shared performances of Verdi's Messa da Requiem in St. Martin, Idstein?

that Gabriela Eibenová (pictured) flew from Prague to Frankfurt to fill in for a soprano in Bach's Mass in B minor in St. Martin, Idstein?
... that John Eliot Gardiner noted the "immensity, vigour, flexibility and imagination of the opening chorus" of Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39?
... that in the motet Locus iste, composed for the dedication of the votive chapel of Linz Cathedral, Anton Bruckner requests a pause "by carefully measuring out five beats"?

more memories?

I adopted a kitten and named her Ala.

Übers Gebirg Maria geht
Over the mountains Mary goes

go over the mountains be inspired support each other sing (16th century)

*dream*

Did you know that Max Reger composed "in new simplicity" Unser lieben Frauen Traum, about a dream of Mary of a tree growing in her?

Advent
go · dream · wake up

9 January
seek delight

8 February

Jenkins Te Deum

29 March
thank you

23 April
spiral of justice

24 May
Salve Regina

22 June
Jesus und Nikodemus

7 July
Mass in C major

17 August
confused

1 September
fear not

October
vacation

15 November

Cantique de Jean Racine Latry Salve Regina Faurè Requiem

December
wake up

Did you know ...

... that 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?
... that Max Deutsch intentionally destroyed his compositions so that his only surviving legacy would be his students?

how much heartache

15 Jan

5 Feb
Pierre Boulez

(1925–2016)

10 Mar
Nikolaus Harnoncourt

(1929–2016)

14 Mar
Peter Maxwell Davies

(1934–2016)

11 Mar

27 Jul
Einojuhani Rautavaara

(1928–2016)

Did you know ...
BWV 1

... that the mezzo-soprano Pamela Dellal, who recorded music by Hildegard von Bingen and Fanny Mendelssohn, translated all texted works by Bach? ... that Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1, Bach's chorale cantata for the feast of the Annunciation, was first performed on Palm Sunday? ... that Hana Blažíková is a soprano with the Bach Collegium Japan, conducted by Masaaki Suzuki, for the project to record the complete Bach cantatas?

Pumpkin in the sky with diamonds

Dreadstar ☥ 01:09, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

10 July
The Witch of Pungo
The good name of Grace Sherwood was restored on July 10, 2006, the 300th anniversary of her conviction.

Franz Kafka: Der Process (The Trial), - we read in the introduction of our article: the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader". Or a woman.

Max Reger (1873–2016)
Did you know ...

... that the international Reger-Chor celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2010, singing music by Bach, Van Nuffel, Ryelandt, and Reger's Hebbel Requiem in St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden, and St. Salvator's Cathedral, Bruges? ... that Gabriel Dessauer conducted in Wiesbaden the premiere of Max Reger's Hebbel Requiem in the organ version of Max Beckschäfer? ... that Ignace Michiels of St. Salvator's Cathedral has been the organist for the German-Flemish Reger-Chor in works such as Reger's Requiem? ... that St. Stefanus, Ghent, was the venue of a concert dedicated to the Martin Luther Year, featuring Max Reger's setting of Psalm 100 ?

... that "Im April" from Max Reger's
Sechs Lieder, Op. 4,
has been called "one of
Reger's sunniest songs"?

... that poems by Martin Greif
inspired music by
Max Reger, Alban Berg, Anton Webern,
and possibly Gustav Mahler?

... that Max Reger composed his
first cello sonata as a student
and had it published in London?

... that at the age of 19, while composing
Drei Chöre, Op. 6, Max Reger
began his lifetime practice of
writing dynamic markings in red?

... that Max Reger composed the chorale fantasia
Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott, Op. 27,
for Karl Straube, who premiered it
before it was published?

... that Sechs Lieder, Op. 35,
are six songs by Max Reger
on love poems by five authors
which inspired "some of Reger's
most magical sonorities"?

... that Max Reger was inspired by his
teacher's chorale fantasia to compose
Zwei Choralphantasien, Op. 40?

... that in No. 2 of
three chorale fantasias, Op. 52,
Max Reger has the chorale tune
enter like "the voice of an angel",
according to the organist Karl Straube?

... that a reviewer of
Zwölf Stücke, Op. 65,
twelve organ pieces by Max Reger,
wrote that the composer was
"still in his storm and stress period"?

... that Max Reger recorded some of his
52 Chorale Preludes, Op. 67,
on the Welte Philharmonic organ?

... that after attending the premiere,
a critic wrote that
Gesang der Verklärten by Max Reger
"may well reach the outermost limit of
musical expression altogether"?

... that Max Reger's Zwölf Stücke, Op. 80,
for organ contain nine pieces composed
in 1904 and three from 1902?

... that Max Reger based four tone poems,
Vier Tondichtungen nach A. Böcklin,
on four paintings by Arnold Böcklin,
including Isle of the Dead?

... that music publisher Henri Hinrichsen,
owner of C. F. Peters in Leipzig,
promoted composers such as
Gustav Mahler, Max Reger,
and Arnold Schoenberg?

... that Max Reger's
Eine romantische Suite
for orchestra, inspired by
three poems by Joseph von Eichendorff,
was arranged for chamber ensemble
by Arnold Schönberg?

... that Max Reger's three
sacred motets for up to eight voices,
Geistliche Gesänge, Op. 110,
were composed in different years
at different places
for different choirs?

28. August 2013
Birmingham music

In memoriam Frank Stähle
5 October 2016 Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium

Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537 Bach: Ich lasse dich nicht, BWV Anh. 159 Yupanqui: Zamba de Vargas Bach: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106 Haydn: Variations in F minor, Hob 17:6 Debussy: Cello Sonata Bach: Chorale "Komm, o Tod, des Schlafes Bruder" from Kreuzstabkantate, BWV 56 Widor: First movement from Symphony No. 6

A Requiem in our time
OREYA singing Samuel Barber's Agnus Dei

Frank Stähle – Wer bis an das Ende beharrt my father – Christ lag in Todes Banden Dreadstar – Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid Pierre Boulez – Ainsi parla Zarathoustra Nikolaus Harnoncourt – Rotraud Hansmann Peter Maxwell Davies – List of compositions Einojuhani Rautavaara – A Requiem in Our Time Max Reger – Requiem Clementia Killewald – Eibingen Abbey a friend – Mitten wir im Leben

Laudato si'
... that Peter Reulein composed the oratorio Laudato si' – Ein franziskanisches Magnificat for five soloists, choirs, organ and orchestra to be premiered in Limburg Cathedral? ... that the Franciscan Helmut Schlegel wrote the lyrics of an oratorio Laudato si', including writings by Francis of Assisi and Pope Francis, and the Magnificat?


... that in 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?

Danke
Variedades de calabaza

Happy Thanksgiving with a variety of pumpkins in the Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid

Evening service in Advent
St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden 9 December 2016

Hammerschmidt: Machet die Tore weit Michael Haydn: Missa tempore Quadragesimae Bach: Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten Colin Mawby: Halleluja Coda J. C. F. Bach: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme H: Balfour Gardiner: Te lucis ante terminum Mendelssohn: In die Trauer greift Gott ein Max Reger: Unser lieben Frauen Traum [6] [7]

sing peace to men and women
Singt Fried den Menschen!

Merry Christmas, DYK ... that in the carol "Vom Himmel hoch, o Engel, kommt", printed in 1622, the angels are requested to come from Heaven with musical instruments, to sing of Jesus and Mary, and for peace?

For unto us a Child is born
sing peace more

Handel: For unto us a Child is born John Goss: Behold, I bring you good tidings Mendelssohn: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing! Franz Schubert: Mass in G Naji Hakim: Toccata of I Love The Colourful World

the time is fulfilled
Laudato si'

Merry Christmas, erfüllt ist die Zeit, Magnificat

play for young children
DYK ...

... that the Taschenphilharmonie, called the world's smallest orchestra, earned prizes for classical music embedded in narration for young children?

Francis Poulenc (7 January 1899 – 30 January 1963)

... that the catalogue of compositions by Francis Poulenc, published in 1995 by Carl B. Schmidt, contains Concert champêtre, FP 49, inspired by the harpsichordist Wanda Landowska?

... that the early Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone by Francis Poulenc was described as offering a "variety of tone colors, striking rhythms, delicious dissonances, and elegant wit"?

... that Francis Poulenc composed the four motets Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence, FP 97, at different times, three of them on responsories for the Holy Week?

... that Francis Poulenc placed an ode to liberty at the end of his Figure humaine, FP 120, a cantata for a twelve-part choir, composed in occupied France and premiered by the BBC?

... that Francis Poulenc's L'Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant, FP 129, for narrator and piano was inspired by children requesting him to play from the book Histoire de Babar?

... that Francis Poulenc Litanies à la Vierge Noire, a French litany to the Black Virgin at Rocamadour, after a pilgrimage to the shrine?

2 February
in peace and joy I let go

2017 Reformation

Did you know ...

... that the communion song "Gott sei gelobet und gebenedeiet", which Martin Luther derived from an older model, entered Catholic hymnals in the 20th century?

... that Martin Luther paraphrased in "Mitten wir im Leben sind mit dem Tod umfangen" the Latin "Media vita in morte sumus" (In the midst of life we are in death), including its Trisagion?

... that "Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit", a hymn by the Protestant reformer Martin Luther based on Psalm 124, appears in the current Protestant hymnal only partly, within stanzas from a colleague's hymn?

... that "Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort" by Luther was titled "A hymn for the children to sing against the two arch-enemies of Christ, and His Holy Church, the Pope and the Turks"?

... that "Es woll uns Gott genädig sein", a paraphrase by Martin Luther of Psalm 67 in German, appeared in the Erfurt Enchiridion in 1524?

... that "Dies sind die heilgen Zehn Gebot" is a hymnal version of the Ten Commandments by Martin Luther?

... that Martin Luther wrote the song of praise "Die beste Zeit im Jahr ist mein" (The best time of the year is mine)
as part of a poem, not as a hymn?

... that "Es spricht der Unweisen Mund wohl" ("The mouth of fools doth God confess") by Martin Luther was one of eight hymns in the first Lutheran hymnal?

... that "'Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr" is one of the oldest hymns of the Reformation? (1531)

... that three stanzas of the penitential hymn "Ach lieben Christen seid getrost" by Johannes Gigas were retained unchanged for Bach's chorale cantata? (1561)

... that the hymn "Herr Jesu Christ, wahr Mensch und Gott" ("Lord Jesus Christ, true man and God") by the Lutheran Paul Eber appeared in Catholic hymnals from 1567? (1563)

... that the simple hymn "Nun laßt uns Gott dem Herren", used at the end of a meal, became a model for other songs of thanks? (1587)

... that Daniel Rump closely modeled the beginning of his Advent song "Der Morgenstern ist aufgedrungen" after a Tagelied, a wake-up call for lovers? (1587)

... that the Advent song "Macht hoch die Tür" is number 1 in the German Protestant hymnal? (1623)

... that "Jerusalem, du hochgebaute Stadt", a song of New Jerusalem, was written by Johann Matthäus Meyfart, rector of the Casimirianum, for an academic sermon? (1626)

... that the communion hymn "Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele", with lyrics by Johann Franck and a melody by Johann Crüger, was translated to "Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness"? (1649)

... that the Advent hymn "Wie soll ich dich empfangen" with lyrics by Paul Gerhardt had a melody by Johann Crüger when he published it in 1653, but Bach used a different melody in his Christmas Oratorio? (1653)

... that while the Three Kings bring gold, incense and myrrh to the manger, the singer of "Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier" offers spirit and mind, heart, soul and courage as gifts? (1653)

... that in the pastoral poem "Ich will dich lieben, meine Stärke", by Angelus Silesius, the Soul promises to love Jesus until her death? (1657)

... that the lyrics of "Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht" ("I do not let go of my Jesus") are based on memorial sermons for Elector Johann Georg of Saxony, who reflected the ideas on his deathbed? (1658)

... that Michael Praetorius published Missodia Sionia, a collection of 104 pieces of sacred music in Latin, including 14 settings of Amen and a mass for eight voices?

... that Heinrich Schütz published his Symphoniae sacrae I, a collection of 20 "eloquent, sensitive, and often sensuous" settings of biblical texts, in 1629 in Venice, where he studied with Monteverdi?

... that "Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn" is the only hymn by Paul Gerhardt which Bach set to music as a chorale cantata?

... that Bach composed five organ settings of the hymn "Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend", which was translated by Catherine Winkworth for communion as "Lord Jesus Christ, be present now!"?

... that in seven last pieces for organ, Sieben Stücke, Op. 145, Max Reger quotes Lutheran chorales and a patriotic anthem?

Why seek ye the living
among the dead?

Did you know ...

... that "Christ ist erstanden" (Christ is risen),
possibly the oldest German hymn, mentioned in the 12th century,
was set for choir in the 21st?

... that Charles Villiers Stanford composed the anthem for Easter
"Why seek ye the living?" on Luke 24:5–7 for mixed choir and organ, when he was organist at Trinity College, Cambridge?

... that Ursula Zollenkopf, a contralto of the NWDR Chor, performed solo and choral parts in a posthumous Schoenberg opera premiere
and in an Easter cantata by Bach?

... that Bach's cantata for Easter Monday, Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6,
is based on the Road to Emmaus narration?

... that the opening chorus of Bach's cantata for the Second Day of Easter, Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66, has been termed "one of the longest and most exhilarating of Bach's early works"?

Green Year

Cross country
Snow drops
Blackthorn blossom
Almond blossom
Swallow tail
Old Rhine
Thistles
Mountain lake
Sunflowers
Beech trees in fall
Rose hips
Spruce in snow

Jauchzet, dienet
rejoice, serve, serve with joy, reflect, come together to dance and give thanks

in loving memory of my mother who was born on 9 January, and my father who died on 15 January listen, 2017

2018 – Serve with Joy

4 Feb

Eberlin: Missa secundi toni

St. Martin, Idstein

Easter 1 Apr

Mozart: Coronation Mass

St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden

3 Oct

Brahms – Ein deutsches Requiem

St. Bonifatius

8 Dec

Bach: Christmas Oratorio (1–3)

Unionskirche, Idstein

16 Dec

Bach: Christmas Oratorio (excerpts)

St. Bonifatius

25 Dec

Gounod: St. Cecilia Mass

St. Bonifatius