Talk:Tölzer Knabenchor
Help needed from music buffs
This article was started using pointers found in the thread BC:983642 started by Silent Sufferer.
I would like to mention some of the festivals, orchestras, and directors the choir has been involved with, but feel like the extensive list at Wikipedia:de:Tölzer Knabenchor would be an overkill for this article. Could somebody with more knowledge about these pick out the most notable ones and put them in the article?
I thought I'd translate this telling testimonial from the German talk page:
- The leaders of the choir do their work with admirable love and enthusiasm. My son (also from Munich) has profited not only musically, but in the development of his whole personality.
— Asch talk to me 17:36, 17 April 2006 (EDT)
I've just about exhausted the Wikipedia article and Almost Angels. There still is a lot of unused material on the official site.
— Asch talk to me 18:06, 17 April 2006 (EDT)
Some more stuff copied from German Wikipedia and edited with invaluable help from Atom. I or somebody else will put this in the article later:
Der Chor hat schon zahlreichen Konzertreisen in alle Welt unternommen. Darunter auch Länder wie Japan, China, Israel und die USA. Er hat bei zahlreichen Festivals gesungen, unter anderem Bayreuth Festspiel, Salzburger Festspiele, Wiener Festwochen (look for English names), Edinburgh International Festival.
Der Chor sang schon mit zahlreichen namhaften Orchestern, wie Berlin Philharmonic, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Dresden Staatskapelle und Vienna Philharmonic. Dabei wurde der Chor auch von Dirigenten von Weltruhm dirigiert, wie etwa Claudio Abbado, Leonard Bernstein, Karl Böhm, Benjamin Britten, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Colin Davis, Herbert von Karajan, Rafael Kubelik, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Georg Solti und Bruno Weil.
The choir will perfom a 50th anniversay concert on Friday, 2 June 2006 in the Franziskanerkirche in Bad Tölz. Bach motets, BWV 225-230.
— Asch talk to me 18:22, 21 April 2006 (EDT)
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I translated the album names in the discography, but I think it looks pretty messy. I couldn't think of any elegant ways to integrate the translations, and I guess they were not really that important in the first place, so I'll just put them here:
- Der Tölzer Knabenchor singt seine größten Erfolge (Greatest Hits)
- Frühling-Sommer-Herbst u. Winter (Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter)
- Der Tölzer Knabenchor singt seine schönsten Volkslieder (Most Beautiful Folk Songs)
- Lieder der Alpen (Songs of the Alps)
- Das Wandern ist des Müllers Lust (Travel is the Miller's Desire)
- Volkslieder mit Robert Stolz (Folk songs with Robert Stolz)
- Volkslieder mit Herman Prey (Folk songs with Herman Prey)
- Hoppe Hoppe Reiter - Die schönsten Kinderlieder (Jump, Jump, Rider - Most Beautiful Children's Songs)
- Altbayerische Weihnacht (High-Bavarian Christmas)
- Bergweihnacht (Mountain Christmas)
- Ihr Kinderlein kommet/s´Christkind kommt bald (Your Little Child is Coming/Baby Christ is Coming Soon)
— Asch talk to me 18:11, 17 April 2006 (EDT)
