User:Gerda Arendt/2016

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User:Gerda Arendt
my perspective on 7 November 2015
Born	(2009-08-02) 2 August 2009 (age 15) Idstein, Germany
Education	Technische Hochschule Hannover
Occupations	singen, singen singen, singen singen, singen
Known for	List of Bach cantatas Franz Kafka
Awards	Precious (given) blushing Million
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Did you know ...

• ... 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?
• ... that the Annunciation to the shepherds in Handel's Messiah, Part I, is the only scene from a Gospel in the oratorio?
• ... that the ice-breaking in the title Islossningen i Uleå älv, a 1889 composition for narrator, men's chorus, and orchestra by Jean Sibelius, was a political statement?
• ... that Helmut Kahlhöfer conducted his choir Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke in recordings of Reger's Geistliche Gesänge, Op. 110, and Bach's Mass in B minor for the tricentenary of the composer's birth?
• ... that Der 100. Psalm, an extended setting of Psalm 100 for choir, orchestra and organ by Max Reger, was premiered simultaneously in Chemnitz and Breslau?
• ... that a church's 1510 spiral of justice declares: "Justice suffered in great need. Truth is slain dead. Faith has lost the battle"?
• ... that rehearsing Dvořák's Eighth Symphony, a conductor said: "Gentlemen, in Bohemia the trumpets never call to battle – they always call to the dance!"?
• ... that Rossini scored the last of his "sins of old age", the Petite messe solennelle, for twelve singers, two pianos, and harmonium?
• ... that among the late works by Max Reger are a fragment of a Latin Requiem and the Hebbel Requiem?
• ... 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 a French team created the Jahrhundertring of Wagner's Ring Cycle at the centenary Bayreuth Festival in 1976, causing "a near-riot"?
• ... 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 structure of Bach's St John Passion, the centre of symmetry is "Durch dein Gefängnis ...", expressing: "By your prison ... came our freedom"?