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Sterling Heights The Schwäbische Männerchor and their guest choir,
the Carpathia Mixed Chorus under the direction of Erwin Aufdemberge and
George Beverst, gave the audience an evening of musical interpretation of
German and English songs. It is always sad for the listeners and performers
not to have the best quality of sound due to the lack of poor acoustics in
this Hall. In spite of this shortcoming, we are all happy to have a place of
our own to practice our songs and give the audience our optimum effort. One
has to keep in mind that we are not professional singers. It is therefore,
imperative to suffer criticism. All in all it was a successful concert and
the two choirs did a wonderful recitation and splendid interpretation of
their music. Both choirs and their conductors did their utmost best that
evening.
The potpourri In Gottes Schöne Welt" was sung by the Schwäbische Männerchor
sounded lively and cheerful. Manfred Milner sang the solo part of
Spielmann's Blut" with feeling and persuasion.
Grandfathers Clock" with soloist Herman Hartmann and David Bohde was
charmingly presented. The Schwäbische Männerchor ended the concert with a
beautiful rendition of Guten Abend, Gut Nacht" with a wonderful solo sung by
Jim Schwark.
The Carpathia Mixed Choir did an excellent performance. The song Eine weisse
Rose" was especially beautiful. We singers from the Schwäbische Männerchor
would like to express our heartfelt thanks to all members and director
George Beverst for their enthusiastic participation.
Special thanks to Jan Pflieger who accompanied us on the piano. We also
would like to thank George Raggatz for his boom boom drum accompanied the
Fliegermarsch".
Many thanks are due to the audience for their support throughout the year,
because without you there would be nothing. As the old saying goes Wo man
singt da lass dich ruhig nieder, böse Menschen haben keine Lieder" (Where
one sings you may sit down and sing along, bad people have no song).
The Schwäbische Männerchor had the honor that evening to present a plaque to
Ernst and Alfred Steudle for being an active member for 60 years. Blondine
Klimach, Michigan Sängerbezirk President, presented Al Steudle with a gold
pin and a certificate for 60 years of vocal service from the Deutsche
Sängerbund. Ernie received this honor at the 2005 Kommers this past April.
Paul Schmidt, Armas Suni, Ed Jarmolinski, Rudi Hermann and Frank Milner each
were honored for their 10 years of active membership.
An
extra special thanks goes to our new member Herbert Gruber who diligently
designed and produced our flyer and concert program. You have done a super
job Herbert! Another thank you goes to our esteemed director Erwin
Aufdemberge who has to put up with our sometimes silly idiosyncrasies.
Liederfroh,
Claus Koerbel |
