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(1918−1990)


Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
for brethren to dwell together in unity!

Did you know ...

... that the complete Psalm 131
and the first verse of Psalm 133
in Hebrew comprise the text
of the last movement of
Chichester Psalms
by Leonard Bernstein?
(5 November)

More images

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... from 2012 to 2017

28 August 2013

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Birmingham music

28 August 2013 - Kurhaus Wiesbaden - Rheingau Musik Festival

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 8

Sol Gabetta
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons

Did you know

  • ... that when rehearsing Dvořák's Eighth Symphony, conductor Rafael Kubelík said: "Gentlemen, in Bohemia the trumpets never call to battle – they always call to the dance!"?
  • ... that Ben Gunn, imprisoned 32 years for killing a friend when he was 14, earned a Master of Arts degree in peace and reconciliation?

(History 2 September 2013)

"Let us not forget that even one book, one pen, one teacher can change the world", Malala Yousafzai at the opening of the Library of Birmingham on 3 September 2013

28 January 2014

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Christmas 2017

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Merry Christmastide



mein hertze soll dir grünen
my heart shall green for you

(Paul Gerhardt, 1653)

Did you know ...

... that the musicologist Willi Gundlach, who founded the chamber choir of Dortmund University, trained volunteers to sing a Bach cantata in one day, including Part I of Bach's Christmas Oratorio? (25 Dec)

2017 review

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Green Year

2018

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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 (M)
  • Good Friday 30 Mar
Kuhnau: Tristis est anima mea
Stainer: God So Loved the World (M)
  • Easter 31 Mar
Thompson: Alleluia (M)
  • Easter 1 Apr
Mozart: Coronation Mass (B)
  • 3 Oct
Brahms – Ein deutsches Requiem (B)
  • 8 + 9 Dec
Bach: Christmas Oratorio (U)
  • 16 Dec
Bach: Christmas Oratorio (excerpts, B)
  • 25 Dec
Gounod: St. Cecilia Mass (B)

Playlist 2018

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4 February
St. Martin, Idstein
3 March
singing in memory of O.K.
in St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden
29 March
Maundy Thursday
30 March
Good Friday
id = Easter
31 March
Easter Vigil
1 April
Easter [1] [2][3]
2 April
Easter Monday
20 May
Pentecost, Latin High Mass
21 May
Pentecost Monday, Ecumenical service
10 June, Kirchweih
Mebold organ in St. Martin, Idstein
16 September, Kreuzfest
Abendlob
28 September
Mauritiusvesper
3 October
Brahms Requiem
Chor von St. Bonifatius
(last row, second from right)
see and listen

10 November
Evening mass
8 December
Christmas Oratorio I-III
9 December
Christmas Oratorio IV-VI
  • Fallt mit Danken
  • Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen
  • Herr, wenn die stolzen Feinde schnauben
  • (Idsteiner Kantorei)
16 December
Advent
  • Jauchzet, frohlocket!
  • Ehre sei Gott
  • Herrscher des Himmels
  • Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen
  • Herr, wenn die stolzen Feinde schnauben
  • (Chor von St. Bonifatius)
24 December
Christmas Eve
25 December
Christmas Day

Eilat

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February 2018

Black Birthday

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Miriam Makeba
(4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008)
Nänie

Did you know ...

... that Der Gemischte Chor Zürich sang the premiere of Nänie in 1881, conducted by its composer Johannes Brahms, and the premiere of a commission by Edward Rushton in 2013 for the choir's 150th anniversary? (4 March)


... that Marcel Cordes, a German baritone known for Italian opera, appeared as the King in the first recording of Carl Orff's Die Kluge? (6 March)



... that the Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum was founded in 1979 by Max Pommer and members of the Gewandhausorchester after Bach's model? (5 March)

Women in March 2018

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Women in March
Zofia Posmysz, born 1923
Opera in Frankfurt on YouTube

Did you know ...

... that Zofia Posmysz (pictured), Auschwitz inmate No. 7566, wrote an audio play on her memories, which became the basis for her 1962 novel Passenger, a 1963 film, and a 1968 opera? (16 March)

... that Canadian soprano Kirsten MacKinnon, a winner of the Met Auditions, appeared as Fiordiligi at the Glyndebourne Festival, and as Meyerbeer's Inès at the Frankfurt Opera, staged as a space mission?

... that Elsa Cavelti, who appeared in dramatic roles at the Opernhaus Zürich and taught voice at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt, was Wagner's Brangäne at La Scala? (25 March)

... that Camilla Nylund appeared as the Countess in Capriccio by Richard Strauss at the Frankfurt Opera, staged by Brigitte Fassbaender, who set the opera in Occupied France? (14 March)

... that pianist Katharina Sellheim and two other women played piano trios by Beethoven, Waterhouse, and Mendelssohn at the Beethovenfest? (10 March)

... that Catherine Rückwardt, who was Generalmusikdirektorin at the Staatstheater Mainz for a decade and one of only four women in such a position in Germany, conducted a recording of the First Symphony by Hans Rott? (8 March)

... that the lyric soprano Anny Felbermayer, who performed 54 roles at the Vienna State Opera, created the role of Xanthe in Die Liebe der Danae by Richard Strauss at the 1952 Salzburg Festival? (1 March)

... that Ilona Durigo, one of the leading concert contraltos of her time, performed in the first recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion, conducted by Willem Mengelberg?

Passion 2018

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by your prison
Good Friday


Did you know ...

... that several composers of the 18th century used Paul Gerhardt's hymn "Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld" to begin their Passion music? (30 March)

... that in the structure of Bach's St John Passion (top of the first page pictured), the centre of symmetry is "Durch dein Gefängnis ...", expressing: "By your prison ... came our freedom"?

... that Willem Ravelli was the voice of Christ in Bach's St Matthew Passion more than 400 times, including the first recording of the work conducted by Mengelberg? (30 March)

... that Ilona Durigo, one of the leading concert contraltos of her time, performed in the first recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion, conducted by Willem Mengelberg?

... that the baritone Johannes Hill was the voice of Jesus and Pilate in Bach's Passions, and of Pope Francis in the premiere of Laudato si'? (29 March)

... that in a motet for Maundy Thursday, Tristis est anima mea, Jesus says in Gethsemane "Sad is my soul even unto death"?

... 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 Handel's Messiah, Part II contains the famous Hallelujah Chorus and the oratorio's longest movement, the air for alto He was despised?

Rheingau Musik Festival

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Rheingau Musik Festival
Eberbach Abbey, venue of the first concert in 1987
... and I was there, C. P. E. Bach's Magnificat

Did you know ... that 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? (30 June, his 76th birthday)

... that Michael Herrmann is founder-director of the Rheingau Musik Festival, which holds about 150 concerts every season in vineyards and historical buildings?

... that Princess Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg turned the East Wing of Schloss Johannisberg into a concert hall for the Rheingau Musik Festival? (27 July 2011)

... that Hans Otto Jung was a jazz musician during World War II, ran a winery from the Boosenburg, and was co-founder of the Rheingau Musik Festival?

... that today (16 August 2010), the 80th birthday of Walter Fink is celebrated at the Rheingau Musik Festival with compositions of Kirchner, Lachenmann, Rihm, Widmann and Hosokawa?

2 August

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Sara Hershkowitz
Festival Voices, opening concert
at Gut Holzhausen on 7 July,
after singing Strauss songs


Did you know ...

... that Sara Hershkowitz,
who usually appears on the opera stage
as the Queen of the Night and Zerbinetta,
parodied Donald Trump
in Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre
at the Lowlands Festival?

Sara Hershkowitz and the NNO perform Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre on YouTube

(2 August 2018)

November

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Udo Zimmermann

Did you know ...

... that Udo Zimmermann composed two operas about the resistance group
White Rose, one while he was a student? (19 November)

... that Antonio Vivaldi composed three settings of Dixit Dominus,
each an extended setting of the vespers psalm
for five soloists, choir, and orchestra, and one even for double choir? (20 November)

... that Camille Saint-Saëns composed the Messe de Requiem
in memory of his friend and patron, Albert Libon,
and conducted the first performance in 1878 at Saint-Sulpice in Paris?
(18 November, the day we learned
that Shock Brigade Harvester Boris died

December

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To the Holy Angels

Did you know ...

... that Rabbi Michael Robinson 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?
(20 December)

... that the 1964 church (pictured) for the new parish
Zu den heiligen Engeln (To the Holy Angels)
in Hanover was designed by Josef Bieling
to symbolize the tent of God among men?
(18 December)

Merry Christmas!

Did you know ...

... that the German Christmas hymn
"Fröhlich soll mein Herze springen"
(Merrily my heart shall leap) by Paul Gerhardt was published
by Johann Crüger, who also wrote the melody?
(24 December)

... that the choir sings Jauchzet, frohlocket! (Shout for joy, exult!),
the beginning of Part I of Bach's Christmas Oratorio,
first imitating kettledrums due to its secular model?
(25 December)

... that the cantata Kündlich groß ist das gottselige Geheimnis
was written by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel
for the Third Day of Christmas
at the court of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen?
(27 December)