WITTENBERG THEATER CLOSES 2001 Theater Wittenberg Closes Its Doors – The Theater Wittenbergs sustaining institution, a special purpose association, has resolved to close the theatre beginning in summer 2001. The decision will affect 156 jobs. A theatre for children and young people and a project-based music theatre will remain in operation. HISTORY OF THEATER IN [...]
The years 1927-37 were critical for artists in Germany. In 1927, the National Socialist Society for German Culture was formed. The aim of this organization was to halt the “corruption of art” and inform the people about the relationship between race and art. By 1933, the terms “Jewish,” “Degenerate,” and “Bolshevik” were in common use [...]
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[Les Miserables] 10th anniversary — 17 VALJEAN Do you hear the people sing.
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Angela Lansbury and George Hearn starring in Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim A great scene from Sweeney Todd that keeps the attention with the growing anticipation of the shave’s outcome…
Stephen Sondheim, Composer/Lyricist James Lapine, Librettist/Director Sondheim says you can not make an audience like something, but they have to understand the intention. Preview performances focused on making things clear to the audience.
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Stephen Sondheim talks about the writting of Send in the Clowns from A Little Night Music — with excerpts of the rehearsal with Sally Ann Howes. Insight into Sondheim’s composing process — he says he does not let lyrics or melody get too far ahead of each other during the writing process. Sondheim says he [...]
[Les Miserables] 10th anniversary — Epilogue (Finale)
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The song ‘Evening bells’ in russian (Вечерний звон — Vecherny svon — Abendglocken — Les cloches du soir) by Ivan Rebroff. This song brings back memories. My father used to endlessly play a record of Ivan Rebroff singing “Evening Bells”. One of my favorite Russian songs.
From the video author: This choir is from Moscow. They were recorded while they were touring through the Europe. They defiantly are the great bunch with beautiful voices but it looks like this group gathered just for the tour. Nobody saw or heard of them after. I tried to find them and invite for the [...]
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Nicene Creed — English. Rehearsal of the Parish Choir of the Orthodox Church of the Holy Cross. Medford, New Jersey. More Early Music harmonies that I enjoy.
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Recorded at Holy Trinity Monastery, Jordanville, NY on July 17, 1993. There are some nice chant harmonies in this video. From a live ordination. Tune out the bad notes and enjoy the good ones…
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JS Bach: Cantata “Christen, ätzet diesen Tag” BWV63/movt vii: Chorale Collegium Vocale Gent Philippe Herreweghe
Los Angeles 1994. Nadie interpreta Nessun Dorma como él. 06/09/07 Pavarotti nos ha dejado, aunque su legado SIEMPRE le mantendrá vivo. DEP. Luciano Pavarotti sings Nessun Dorma in Los Angeles, 1994.
JS Bach,BWV 80,Coir: Ein Feste Burg ist Unser Gott;Munchener Chor & Orchester,Karl Richter Bach’s arrangement of Martin Luther’s “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”
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Here is an “Introduction to Indulgences” from www.catholic.org – the “fact driven, faith informed” pro-catholic website. After the introduction you will read “Myths About Indulgences” from www.catholic.com – These are both Catholic websites and gives the current state of affairs and apologetics from a Catholic standpoint. It is self explanatory and deserves no additional comment [...]
Rev Dr. Eric W. Gritsch is Emeritus Professor of Church History, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary where he also directed the Institute for Luther Studies. A native of Austria, he experienced firsthand the reign of Adolf Hitler and the tyranny of Communism; he came to the United States in 1954. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University [...]
Reviews of the movie LUTHER (2003) from faculty of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. Original comments here: http://www.ltsg.edu/luthercolloquy/themovie.htm Overall, they feel the movie to be an “ok” introduction to Luther, but absent in relaying the power and drama of Luther’s historical personality. They find the Luther movie to be “nice”. I have also seen [...]
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From Martin Luther: Hymns, Ballads, Chants, Truth page 26-27: A paraphrase of Psalm 12, this hymn was written in 1523, the same time as many of Luther’s other psalm-hymns. It was published in the first Lutheran hymnal, Achtliederbuch, of 1524. Luther’s version of the psalm reflects much of his own experience in the early days [...]
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IF GOD WERE NOT BESIDE US NOW — By Martin Luther 1524 From Martin Luther: Hymns, Ballads, Chants, Truth page 17-18: Luther’s friend Justus Jonas in 1524 wrote an eight-stanza paraphrase of Psalm 124. In contrast to the smooth-flowing style of Jonas, Luther also undertook the paraphrasing of the same psalm, his being shorter, more [...]
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