User:Gerda Arendt/Stories 2023 - Wikipedia
This is the 2023 archive of my daily stories, with an overview at User:Gerda Arendt/Story list. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:33, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
... and a selection here --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:02, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe ('Jesus gathered the Twelve to Himself', is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, written for the last Sunday before Lent. He composed it as an audition piece for the position of director of church music in Leipzig, and he first performed it there in a church service at the Thomaskirche on 7 February 1723. The work begins with a scene from the Gospel in which Jesus predicts his suffering in Jerusalem, and is not understood by his disciples. Bach showed, setting the prescribed text of an unknown poet, that he mastered the composition of a dramatic scene, an expressive aria with obbligato oboe, a recitative with strings, an exuberant dance, and a chorale in the style of Johann Kuhnau, his predecessor in Leipzig. According to the Bach scholar Richard D. P. Jones, several elements of the work such as a "frame of biblical text and chorale around the operatic forms of aria and recitative" became standards for Bach's Leipzig cantatas and even his Passions. (Full article...)
The poet, cartoonist, and satirist
F. W. Bernstein
(4 March 1938 – 20 December 2018)
was appointed
professor of caricature and comics
in Berlin in 1984,
the only such chair in the world at the time.
Lorenzo Viotti
(born 15 March 1990)
conducted Massenet's Werther
in three productions in opera houses of three countries in 2017,
silently singing with the soloists.
Violeta Hemsy de Gainza
(25 January 1929 – 7 July 2023),
president of the
Latin American Forum of Musical Education
from its foundation in 1995,
taught generations of students, and said:
"Learning music is a human right".
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Zdeněk Mácal,
a promising Czech conductor,
left his home country in 1968
and was chief conductor of orchestras
in Germany, Australia and the United States,
returning to Prague to lead
the Czech Philharmonic from 2003.
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.