User:Gerda Arendt/2018

User:Gerda Arendt
User:Gerda Arendt
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Born	2 August 2009 (age 15); Idstein, Germany
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Education	Technische Hochschule Hannover
Occupations	singen, singen; singen, singen; singen, singen;
Known for	List of Bach cantatas; Franz Kafka; Max Reger; Reformation;
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	This editor won the Million Award for bringing Franz Kafka to Featured Article status.
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Did you know ...

... that the title of the poem "Sozusagen grundlos vergnügt" by Mascha Kaléko can be translated as "Call it causelessly merry"?
... 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?
... 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?
... 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?
... 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?
... that the 1964 church 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?
... 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'?
... that Bedford Presbyterian Church, said to have excellent acoustics, has hosted concerts such as Bach's Mass in B minor and Britten's Saint Nicolas?
... that Lula Mysz-Gmeiner, a contralto and influential voice teacher from Transylvania, performed lieder written for her by Max Reger and other prominent contemporaries?
... 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? (the day we learned that Shock Brigade Harvester Boris died)
... 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?
... that Udo Zimmermann composed two operas about the resistance group White Rose, one while he was a student?
... that Harry Kupfer, the stage director at the Komische Oper Berlin for decades, presented Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer at the 1978 Bayreuth Festival as a psychological drama?
... that Praeludium, a 1992 composition by Graham Waterhouse, has been described as a "dramatic concert piece"?
... that following the July Revolution in France, Heinrich Heine wrote there a history of emancipation in Germany, beginning with Luther's Reformation?
... that in his opera Tri sestry (Three Sisters), composer Péter Eötvös wants the three sisters from Chekhov's play to be sung by countertenors?
... that the Überwasserkirche, a Gothic hall church in Münster, was the location of the second of three sermons held in 1941 by Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen in defiance of the Nazi regime?
... that in his Berceuse, Chopin created a lullaby for piano in 16 continuous variations on an ostinato ground bass?
... that Claude Debussy dedicated a piano piece to Yvonne Lerolle in 1894, and included it in his suite Pour le piano in 1901?
... that Psalm 84 about God's lovely dwellings was set to music by Heinrich Schütz, by Brahms in the centre of Ein deutsches Requiem, and as Wilhelm Kempff's Op. 1?
... that Charles Wood's ''Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in D'' has been regarded as an "epitome of Church of England worship"?
... that Richard Strauss's art song "Freundliche Vision" describes a waking dream?b
... that the mezzo-soprano Carla Henius performed in the premiere of Luigi Nono's Intolleranza 1960 at La Fenice, and had a composition by Dieter Schnebel written for her voice?
... 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?
... that on 12 April 1945, a white flag was hung from the tower of the Große Kirche Aplerbeck (pictured), one of two churches after the same design by Christian Heyden, to signal capitulation?
... that Hilmar Hoffmann, who wanted "culture for all", initiated a 15-museum complex in Frankfurt, including the first independent Jewish museum in postwar Germany?
... that Andreas Großmann commissioned the oratorio Laudato si' for the 50th anniversary of the Catholic Diocese of Limburg's church music department, which he heads?
... that Orgelbau Mebold built a new organ in St. Martin, Idstein, in 2006, which has attracted organists such as Kalevi Kiviniemi and Matthias Eisenberg to perform there?
... that Katharina Magiera, a member of the Frankfurt Opera, has appeared as Lisa, a former SS officer in Auschw‘itz, in Weinberg's opera The Passenger?
... that the secular Bach cantata Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten, BWV 202, scored for a soprano soloist, oboe, strings and continuo, pictures the transition from winter to spring?
... that Richard Strauss's art song "Freundliche Vision" describes a waking dream?

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