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Singing Christmas 2012


 * 9 December, St. Peter, Syburg
 * Macht hoch die Tür, die Tor macht weit
 * Tochter Zion, freue dich
 * Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes, BWV 40


 * 23 and 25 December, Chor von St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden
 * Christmas Oratorio
 * Jauchzet, frohlocket (... ban complaining ...)
 * Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen
 * Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen
 * Herr, wenn die stolzen Feinde schnauben


 * 24 December, Chor St. Martin, Idstein
 * Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140, excerpts
 * Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
 * John Rutter: "Angels' Carol" (... new light to a world in darkness ...)
 * Joy to the World
 * O du fröhliche, o du selige gnadenbringende Weihnachtszeit


 * ... that Markus Flaig brought Handel's darkness and great light to St. Martin, Idstein?
 * ... that the Annunciation to the shepherds in Handel's MessiahCscr-featured.svg, Part I, is the only scene from a Gospel in the oratorio?
 * ... that the 2000 a cappella composition Lux Aurumque (Light and Gold) was recorded by a Virtual Choir of 185 singers from 12 countries, conducted by its composer Eric Whitacre?
 * ... that Jan Sandström composed the Motorbike Concerto, and a setting of Es ist ein Ros entsprungen for two choirs a cappella: one in four parts, singing Praetorius, and the other in eight parts?
 * more on Chor St. Martin


 * ... 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 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"?
 * more on Chor von St. Bonifatius


 * ... that Hans Krieger, an award-winning German essayist, influential in papers such as Die Zeit, wrote the text for a Christmas cantata by Graham Waterhouse that premieres today (4 December 2011)?
 * ... that three composers, flutist Jens Josef, cellist Graham Waterhouse and pianist Rudi Spring, each set a Christmas carol for their trio concert at the Gasteig?
 * more on Graham Waterhouse

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Memories ... for more personal memories see people, places, performances ... Did you know ...


 * ... that the international Reger-Chor (pictured) celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2010, singing music of Bach, Van Nuffel, Ryelandt, and Reger's Hebbel-Requiem in St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden, and St. Salvator's Cathedral, Bruges?
 * ... that Bach composed his motet for double choir Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf, BWV 226 (autograph pictured), for the funeral of Johann Heinrich Ernesti at the Paulinerkirche?
 * ... 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 Chieftain's Salute, composed by Graham Waterhouse is scored for Great Highland Bagpipe and string orchestra? (22 August 2009)
 * ... that Graham Waterhouse (pictured) composed Rhapsodie Macabre for piano and string quartet as an homage to Franz Liszt and played the cello part in Munich and London?
 * ... that composer and cellist Graham Waterhouse dedicated his Three Pieces for Solo Cello, described as "rhapsodic movements of great expressive strength", to Siegfried Palm? (History 10 April 2012)
 * ... that Bright Angel, composed by Graham Waterhouse for three bassoons and contrabassoon, relates to the Bright Angel Trail of the Grand Canyon which the composer hiked with his father at the age of nine?
 * more on Graham Waterhouse


 * ... 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 the prolific composer and Westminster Cathedral conductor Colin Mawby (pictured left) said, "I cannot write choral music unless I work with choirs ... I have to write for particular people"?
 * ... that Andreas Boltz is the cathedral music director at the Frankfurt Cathedral Kaiserdom St. Bartholomäus?
 * ... that the church St. Bonifatius was built in Wiesbaden in Gothic Revival style, after a first building had collapsed?


 * ... that Markus Flaig brought Handel's darkness and great light to St. Martin, Idstein?
 * ... 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"? (Good Friday 2012)
 * ... that the solo parts of Joseph Haydn's oratorio Die Schöpfung were performed by Elisabeth Scholl, Daniel Sans and Andreas Pruys in the Basilika of Schloss Johannisberg?
 * more on Chor St. Martin


 * ... 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?
 * ... that the piano duo Anthony & Joseph Paratore played Brahms at the first Rheingau Musik Festival, and entertained children with The Carnival of the Animals at the 25th?


 * ... 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?
 * ... that Andris Nelsons conducted Bartok's Viola Concerto and Mahler's Fifth Symphony in the final concert with his Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie in Herford?

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 * ... that Patrice Chéreau, born 2 November 1944, staged the 1976 centenary production of Der Ring des Nibelungen (pictured), conducted by Pierre Boulez?
 * ... that the art photographers Anna and Bernhard Blume created Kitchen Frenzy and Pure Reason?
 * ... that Hans Stadlmair, conductor of the Münchener Kammerorchester for almost four decades, in 1971 premiered Wilhelm Killmayer Fin al punto, of which the composer said, "The calm already contains the catastrophe"?
 * ... that the Neustädter Kirche (pictured) was built in Hanover's Calenberger Neustadt in the 17th century as one of the earliest aisleless churches in Lower Saxony?
 * ... that Erich Barke, professor of microelectronic systems and since 2005 president of the the University of Hannover, was elected as president for a second term?
 * more on Hannover

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 * ... that the Opernhaus Dortmund was opened in 1966 with Der Rosenkavalier, performed in Dortmund first in 1911?
 * ... that Erna Berger sang the title role of Bedřich Smetana's The Bartered Bride in a 1955 recording with Wilhelm Schüchter and the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie?
 * ... that the first stanza of the hymn Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist, asking the Holy Spirit for the right faith most of all, is documented in German in the 13th century, and the later three stanzas relate to faith, love and hope?

Made my day
Inspired, I created my own for Precious Support where I see it. <div style="margin: auto; max-width: 48em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba( 192, 192, 192, 0.75 ); border-radius: 1em; border: 1px solid #a7d7f9; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0.5em 1em 1em; color: black;" class="ui-helper-clearfix"> Did you know ... that in 1968, the German artist Bazon Brock created a sign in the style of a high voltage warning saying "der Tod muß abgeschafft werden ..." ("death must be abolished ...")?


 * death must be abolished,
 * this damned mess must stop.
 * He who speaks a word of
 * consolation is a traitor
 * (History 13 February 2012, translation: PumpkinSky)

2012

 * Liturgical Bach cantatas 16 123 124 13 97 111 14 125 84 181 127 80a 145 67 85 12 108 87 43 44 174 165 20 2 7 24 54 178 199 33 17 [51 27] 130 114 49 79 115 139 26 90 36Symbol support vote.svg 40Symbol support vote.svg [156 151 197] 152 [112 117 124 141 143 149 176 188 194 195]
 * Other Bach cantatas 193 193a 131 36a 36b 36c

DYK nominated for others
Das Christ-Elflein * Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131 (20) * Helene Wildbrunn * University of Freiburg Faculty of Biology * Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen, Alexander Mitscherlich * Carl Lachmund * Anton Sistermans * Requiem (Delius) * Horst von der Goltz * Mounted Boy Scout Troop 290 q * Christophoruskirche, Schierstein (10) * Werner Schuster (politician) * Siegfried Rapp * Giulietta Guicciardi ps * John H. Dessauer * Hans Dessauer * Groningse Bachvereniging * Paul Fleming (poet) p * Christian Keymann * Georg Christian Lehms p

nominated: 21 - open: 1 - appeared: 20 - pictured: 3 - quirky: 1 - stats: 1

DYK reviewed
Infinite Love * Pasterka * The Sons of Great Bear * Human rights movement ** Leningrad première of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 * Capture of Egersund q * David Chan (violinist) * The Tower of Blue Horses (120) * Carrapateira, Aljezur * List of female Fellows of the Royal Society * Thaddäus Troll * Nativity of St. John the Baptist Church, Piatra Neamț * Indigo Lake (Ohio) * Berlin Victory Parade of 1945, New York City Victory Parade of 1946 * Hellmut G. Haasis * Shanghai Botanical Garden * Kirsten Brunvoll (110), Jonas Brunvoll, Sr., Jonas Brunvoll, Jr., Gunnar Brunvoll * Colostethus palmatus, Colostethus agilis * Fałszywka * al-Fu'ah, Maarrat Misrin * St Mary's Church, Longfleet * Caspian lamprey (100), Carpathian brook lamprey * Michael Jamtfall * Mary Buckland * Eustachy Trepka, Stanisław Murzynowski, Hieronim Malecki * David Resnick * International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim/Auschwitz * Tangendorf disc brooch * Black Jester (90) * World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace * Kamiyodo Haiji * Meadowbrook State Parkway, Norman J. Levy * Kappa V Archaeological Site p * Stanford University Libraries p * Myxogastria p * Great Northern War plague outbreak ps * Ben Burns q * Stanton Street Synagogue (80) * Kulubnarti, Kulubnarti church * Teofila Ludwika Zasławska * Betty Jane Watson * Tomahawk (album) * El emigrante (short story), Luis Felipe Lomelí * Magnesiopascoite * John Dabiri * Gervais Street Bridge (70) * Astoria City Hall (old), Astoria City Hall (new) * Sweet Life * Politics and Prose * Intihuatana * Adrienne Bolland * Cliona delitrix, Parazoanthus parasiticus * Alfredo Zalce * Caribbean Clipper (60) * Pod Egidą * Deutsche Zeppelin Reederei ps * Maryana Marrash p * Transfiguration Church in Kovalyovo * List of Historic Sites of Japan (Saga) * Triangulum Australe qs * Mademoiselle Parisot ps * Margaret Diesendorf * Polenlager ps * Salon des Cent p (50) * Timber Creek, Northern Territory * Toti Soler * Music for Our Mother Ocean * Tidehverv * Peleuli * Tajul Muluk (religious leader) * Martin Gunnar Knutsen * Szlachta's privileges * Khmer–Chinese Friendship Association * Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig (40) * Grand Veymont * Dainichi Nyorai (Enjō-ji) p * Themes in Maya Angelou's autobiographies * William Jennings Bryan presidential campaign, 1896 p * Boscastle to Widemouth * Angophora floribunda p * Blue Gum Forest, Blue Mountains * Marion, Utah * Oka Antara * The Wild and the Innocent (Millennium) (30) * Theodor Rowehl * Sejm of the Duchy of Warsaw * Addie MS * Bermuda fish chowder q * Otto Lessing (sculptor) * Nosa Igiebor (journalist) * Falk Harnack * Tipu Sultan (journalist) * Skyscraper (horse) q * Pavel Sheremet (20) * Roy Royston, Little Nellie Kelly (musical) * Yndamiro Restano Díaz * Christopher Werner * Ida Adams, Houp La! * Daisy Burrell p * UAE Five * Bayshore Boulevard * Home of Peace * Herta Feely * Curt Gowdy State Park, Hynds Lodge * Kemna concentration camp ps * Stanisław Samostrzelnik p * Baluarte Bridge ps * Aku (poem) * Konrad Prószyński * Skerray

reviewed: 127 - open: 4 - appeared: 121 - withdrawn: 2 - pictured: 19 - quirky: 7 - stats: 7

Not deleted
Giorgi Latsabidze * Mark Edwards (harpsichordist) * List of Germans who resisted Nazism * Aalener Jazzfest * Adolf Benda * Amanda Holden (writer)

discussions: 6 - open: - keep: 6

Moves
Lutherkirche, Wiesbaden * Giorgi Latso * Katholische Hofkirche * Template:Article history * Halle (Saale) ** Windsbacher Knabenchor * Kreuzkirche, Dresden * Altes Stadthaus, Berlin * Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven)

Referenced
Horst Janssen

Merged
Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung * List of Bach cantatas * kestnergesellschaft

Topics 2012

 * expand Melos Ensemble further, create other members of the ensemble
 * from scratch: OREYA * Isabel Charisius * Dirk Müller (?) * Cybele (label) * Otto and Ursula Jung * Michael Pospíšil * Erhard Egidi * Frank Stähle * Max Ciolek * Franz Vitzthum * Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin * Junge Kantorei * The Company of Heaven * Magnificat (Rutter) * Emma Pearson * Stefano Canuti * Richard Moore * Henry Skolnick * Endymion * Isabel Charisius * Weihnachtshistorie (Schütz)


 * from de: Berthold Possemeyer * St. Peter, Syburg (de) * Matthias Eisenberg * Karlheinz Oswald * Helmut Kahlhöfer (stub) * Erfurt Enchiridion (de: Erfurter) * Martin Krumbiegel * Die Singphoniker * Vilde Frang * Stallerhof


 * expand: Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra * Wolfram Wagner * Lutz-Michael Harder * Goethe-Gesellschaft * Hermann Max * Walter Renneisen * Marcel Tyberg * Wolfgang Katschner * Lautten Compagney * Rheinsteig * Georg Grün * KammerChor Saarbrücken * Masaaki Suzuki * Hélène Grimaud * Jürgen Jürgens * Ernst Toepfer * Roger Birnstingl * Ulf Schirmer * Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt * Oboe quartet * Wolfgang von Schweinitz * André Werner * Enno Poppe * Klaus Lang * Philipp Maintz * Klaus Schedl * Bas Ramselaar * Ahasverus Fritsch * Knut Nystedt * Robert Schumann Hochschule


 * touched: Yogo sapphireCscr-featured.svg TFA 30 June SG 26 July * Soldiers Chapel * Hochschule für Musik Würzburg * Kurt Suttner * Peter Griesbacher * August Wiltberger * Philipp Dessauer * Milan Richter * Franz Kafka: The Castle (novel), The Metamorphosis, Contemplation (Kafka), Der Jude (magazine), Oskar Bie, Prager Presse, Die Weißen Blätter, Verlag Die Schmiede, Poseidon (short story), Oskar Pollak, Bohemia (newspaper), Karl-Ferdinands-Universität, Advocates (short story), My Neighbor (short story) * Simone Kermes * Fazil Say * Hana Blažíková * Reinhold-Schneider-Preis * Franz Philipp * Yury Revich * Johann Burchard Freystein * Dan Zerfaß * Ernst Petzold * Andreas Bomba * Samuel Rodigast * Severus Gastorius * Petra Morath-Pusinelli * Echo Klassik * Freiburger Barockorchester * Frederik Magle * Theobald Schrems * Overture of 'The Flying Dutchman' as played at sight by a bad spa orchestra at the well at 7 in the morning * Kulturpreis Baden-Württemberg * Clarinet Concerto (Hindemith) * The Adventures of Milo and Otis * SWR Vokalensemble * Giuseppe Patanè * Zsolt Hamar * NDR Radiophilharmonie * Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern * Freiburg Botanical Garden * Marienkirche, Neubrandenburg * La Petite Bande * N. Simrock * Christiana Mariana von Ziegler * Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz * ZDF-Hitparade * Rabbits in the arts * Vladimir Horbowski * Adam Reusner * Nikolaus Decius * Düsseldorf school of painting * Biermann-Ratjen-Medaille * Carl Raswan * Carl Boos * Edgar Krapp * Hermine Haselböck * Fritz Schumacher (architect) * Paul Wunderlich * Edwin Scharff Prize * Berliner Kunstpreis * Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen * Horst Janssen Museum * Missa solemnis * Bruno Bruni (artist) * Heinz Neumann (politician)

2011
see archive
 * Liturgical Bach cantatas 190 153 65 154 155 73 81 83 144 126 159 1 182 4 66 134 42 104 146 166 86 128 183 59 173 175 129 167 75 10 76Symbol support vote.svg (21 105) 135 185 (177) 88 9 107 45 168 101 113 137 77 25 99 95 47 169 5 (56 80) 180 98 89 62 63 133 16 123
 * Other Bach cantatas 210 210a 173a (57 in 2011, total 95)

2010

 * Bach cantatas after Trinity following the Liturgical year: 191 93 170 136 94 102 179 69a 164 [17] 138 161 187 148 96 48 162 109 55 52 60 116 61 70 132 91 57 64
 * Other Bach cantatas: BWV 120 171 46 172 249a 147 134a 140 29 72 (38 in 2010) up

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