Performance Calendar

1. Saturday, September 27 German Heritage Day at the Boylston Schul-Verein, Walpole, 3:30pm
2. Saturday, October 25 Herbstfest : Autumn Dinner Concert & Dance at the Boylston Schul-Verein, 5:30pm
3. Sunday, December 14 Advent Music Service at First Parish Church in Arlington, 10am
4. Sunday, December 21 Weihnachts Concert at the Boylston Schul-Verein, Walpole, 5pm
5. Sunday, December 28 German Language Christmas Service at the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church of North Easton, 4:30pm
6. Sunday, January 4 Three Kings German Language Service and Holiday Concert at the First Lutheran Church of Boston, 3pm
7. Saturday, February 21 Karneval! : Winter Dinner Concert & Dance at the Boylston Schul-Verein, Walpole, 5:30pm
8. Saturday, May 1 Frühling im Wien: Spring Dinner Concert & Dance at the Boylston Schul-Verein, Walpole, 5:30pm
9. Monday, May 10 90th Anniversary Celebration of the Altenheim in Roxbury, 4pm

June 2004 Repertoire - Three competion prize songs

• Herbstlied by Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847), op. 84, no. 6 (1839) for mixed voices
• Mein Herz ist fröhlich alle Zeit (1923)by Paul Fehrmann for ladies voices (text is Psalm 38, 10 & 16)
• Höret, was ich euch will (1973) by Bernhard Weber for men's voices

• Sängergruß by Albert Methfessel (1785-1869)
• Bundeslied, also called the Freemason's Anthem by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1765-1791)
• Abendfriede am Rhein by Mathieu Neumann (1867-1928)
• So ein Tag, Foxtrot song by Lotar Olias (1913-1990)

October 2003 Repertoire - Herbstfest Dinner/Dance Concert (click here for notes and links)

• Abendlied by Rudi Rondo
• Auf der Heide blüh'n die letzten Rosen by Robert Stoltz
• Aus der Traube in die Tonne by Kurt Lissmann (1902-1983)
• Bunt sind schon die Wälder by Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752-1814)
• Es dunkelt schon in der Heide Melodie aus Ostpreußen (c. 1850)
• Herbstlied by Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847), op. 84, no. 2 (1839)
• Im Wald und auf der Heide by F. L. Gehricke
• Ostpreußenlied by Herbert Brust (1930)
• Sommers Abschied by Wilhem Heinrichs
• Trara, das Tönt wie Jagdgesang - four-part canon
• Das Waldhorn by Friedrich Silcher (1780-1860)

December 2003/January 2004 Repertoire - Advent Music (click here for notes and links)

Ccongregational Hymns

• O Du fröhliche
• O Tannenbaum
• Stille Nacht

Traditional folk songs for Christmas and Epiphany

• Heiligste Nacht (19th century song from the Rheinland)
• Hohe Nacht der Klaren Sterne
• Leise rieselt der Schnee by Eduard Ebel
• Maria durch ein Dornwald ging (15th century German folksong from Eichsfeld), arranged by Franz Wasner
• Neapolitanisches Weihnachtslied by August Blank
• Stern über Bethlehem by Alfred Hans Zoller
• Süßer die Glocken nie klingen arr. by Claud Hasbrouck
• Tausend Sterne sind ein Dom by Siegfried Köhler

Classical German Advent and Christmas music

• Es ist ein' Ros' by Michael Praetorius (from Musae Sionae, Part I, 1607)
• In dulci jubilo by Michael Praetorius (from Musae Sionae, Part I, 1607)
• Macht hoch die Tür (1704)
• Cantata No. 140, Wachet auf by Johann Sebastian Bach (early 18th century) with Kyle Haugen, organ, Carl Schliakjer, oboe, and Mies Boet-Whitaker, flute
• Weihnachtsmotette by Friedrich Silcher (early 19th century)

February 2004 Repertoire - Operetta excerpts and festive songs
Click here for practice listening files of operettas. Click here for program notes and popular song melodies.

• Einmal am Rhein (sing-along) by Willi Ostermann
• Freut euch des Lebens Volkslied by Hans Georg Nägeli
• Kornblumenblau (sing-along) by Gerhard Jussenhoven
• Küssen ist keine Sünd' from Edmund Eysler's Die goldene Meisterin (1927)
• So ein Tag, Foxtrot song by Lotar Olias (1913-1990)
• Trinkt! Trinkt! Waltz song from Der Studentenprinz by Sigmund Romberg (1887-1951)
• Was kann der Sigismund from Ralph Benatzky's Im "Weißen Rössl" am Wolfgangsee (1930)
• Wenn das Wasser im Rhein gold'ner Wein wär Fasnachtslied by Werner Stamm(1950)
• Excerpts from Franz Lehar's Die Lustige Witwe

May 2004 Repertoire - Frühling in Wien: A Spring Night in Vienna
Guest artists - Virginia Crumb, harp and Haera Tocca, piano
Click here for practice listening files of operettas. Click here for program notes and translations.

• Grüß Gott, Du schöner Maien (traditional)
• Ich geh' durch einen grasgrünen Wald, arr. Claus Hasbrouck
• Frühlingsahnung from Die erste Frühlingstag, op. 48, no. 1 by Felix Mendelssohn
• Am Donaustrande and two duets from Johannes Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzes, op. 52
• Vilja Lied fromFranz Lehar's Die Lustige Witwe
• An der schönen blauen Donau, op. 314 by Johann Strauß, Jr., arr. Heinrich Geiger
• Draußen in Sievering blüht schon der Flieder by Johann Strauß, Jr., arr. Claus Hasbrouck
• Im Prater blühn wieder die Bäume
• Lied aus Wien (traditional, based on a melody attributed to Franz Schubert)
• Lasset jauchzen Berg und Tal by Evan Stephens