User:Gerda Arendt/2017

with peace and joy I let go

User:Gerda Arendt
Reger-Chor in Bruges
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 Max Reger + works Poulenc's works Reformation
Awards	Precious (given) blushing Million
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Did you know ...

• ... 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 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?
• ... that the Annunciation to the shepherds in Handel's Messiah, Part I, is the only scene from a Gospel in the oratorio?
• ... 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?
• ... that Wolfram Röhrig, who was responsible for "entertaining music" including jazz for the broadcaster Süddeutscher Rundfunk, recorded Max Reger's Der 100. Psalm?
• ... that Nicholas Nabokov composed an opera Love's Labour's Lost, setting the same play by Shakespeare as the fictional hero of Mann's Doctor Faustus, "in a spirit of the most artificial mockery"?
• ... that Nicole Grobert, professor of nanomaterials at the University of Oxford, was awarded a Royal Society Industry Fellowship in 2016, her third fellowship from the Royal Society?
• ... that a Hiroshima peace bell was donated to the Aegidienkirche, the ruin of a Gothic church that was left as a war memorial?
• ... that facing the rise of Nazi ideology, Otto Riethmüller compiled the song "Sonne der Gerechtigkeit" for young people from hymns by three authors of two earlier centuries?
• ... that "Von guten Mächten", a poem written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer in prison in 1944 where he faced execution, became a hymn with several melodies?
• ... that Johannes Brahms used the same melody for a song of his Fünf Lieder, Op. 105, as for the theme of the slow movement of his second piano concerto?
• that after baritone Johannes Martin Kränzle recovered from MDS, he made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival in 2017 as Beckmesser, staged by the festival's first Jewish director?
• ... that the song cycles by Wilhelm Killmayer, written across five decades, set poems by authors from Sappho to Peter Härtling, with a focus on the late poems by Hölderlin?
• ... that the Basilica of St. James in Levoča contains the world's tallest carved wooden altar?
• ... that the second of Five Childhood Lyrics, compositions for an unaccompanied choir by John Rutter, is Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat"?
• ... that Marc Soustrot conducted a staging of both Debussy's cantata La Damoiselle élue and Honegger's oratorio Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher at the Frankfurt Opera in 2017?
• ... that in his song cycles, Graham Waterhouse has used a cello, a string quartet, or a Pierrot ensemble to complement the singer?
• ... that the communion song "Gott sei gelobet und gebenedeiet" ("God be praised and blessed"), which Martin Luther derived from an older model, entered Catholic hymnals in the 20th century?
• ... that when the jazz pianist Michael Wollny was artist in residence of the Rheingau Musik Festival, he played a concert with Andreas Schaerer, Émile Parisien and Vincent Peirani?
• ... that Two Songs to be sung of a summer night on the water by Frederick Delius are wordless songs for an a cappella choir, described as being amongst the composer's "most transcendently ecstatic moments"?
• ... that Martin Luther paraphrased in his hymn "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 the opera Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen (Murderer, Hope of Women) was based on a play by an expressionist artist and was performed with stage set and choreography by a Bauhaus artist?
• ... 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 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?