Singing Again and Yet Another Lion.

Leo?

This handsome lion,  (you cannot get away from them here in Braunschwieg) is in the foyer of the Residential Home, where the choir met today for a  seminar to prepare us for our concert next week in Burg Warberg.  We are singing a programme of seven songs, one of which is my favourite,  "Aennchen von Tharau,"  "Little Anne from Tharau," a delightful song with text written in 1637 and arranged in High German in 1778.  Wikipedia has more information about this work, which is truly delightful.  You will need to translate the page.

Ännchen von Tharau – Wikipedia

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We met at 10am and sang til 12.30, when we  stopped for a tasty lunch and resumed again at 1.45pm.  However it was so hot, that by 3pm it was decided to call it a day!   We were all sleepy, and the temperature here has been 27c.  The photo below shows some of us packing up, it really was uncomfortably hot, and I was glad to come home to a cup of good English tea and an afternoon snooze.

Our concert programme at "Burg Warberg" on Sunday 14th August.

Fanfare a Cappella.        Lorenz Maierhofer.

Das Wandern ist des Muellers Lust.        Karl Zoellner (1800-1860)

Chor der Kreuzfahrer von Die Lombarden.        Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Eingangschor von Cavalleria Rusticana.        Pietro Mascagni   (1863-1945)

Moon River, music by Henry Mancini.       Arr: Soeren Sieg.

Volkslied aus dem Tessin.       Setting:  Wilfried Garbers.

Aennchen von Tharau, text Simon Dach 1637.   Mel & Setting: Friedrich Silcher (1825) 

         

It was too hot to sing!