By twitter I have heard about this two videos that were made from a concert of the Langendorfer Zupforchester, the mandolin orchestra from Langendorf in Germany – given in Japan some days ago. On the homepage of the Langendorfer Mandolineorchesters you can find some information about the friendship between this German mandolin orchestra and Japan. [...]
Ulrich Herkenhoff is one of the most important virtuoso on the panflute in Germany. On his Homepage http://www.art-of-pan.de/ you can read about his most important successes: Through his interpretation of classical music Ulrich Herkenhoff has inspired several contemporary composers to write music for the panflute. In 1992 he was awarded the Munich “Förderpreis des Gasteig [...]
One of the oldes musical instruments is the lyre. This instrument is well known as the Anglo Saxon Lyre in the UK, but also as the Germanic lyre. In German it is also known as the Alemannische Leier or Alamannische Leier. On the homepage of Paul Bultler (http://crab.rutgers.edu/~pbutler/aslyre.html) you can read: The Anglo-Saxon Lyre is [...]
Heinrich Albert was a German guitar player and composer at the beginning of the 20th century. He was born in Würzburg in 1870. He lived in Gauting for a long time where he died in 1950. During the first decades of the 20th century Alberts composition were regularly played in concerts. Alberts guitar method Lehrgang [...]
In June 2009 the German Association for mandolin orchestras BDZ, district Hessen, had its music fest in Schlitz. Several videos of this event are available at youtube with interesting performances of some of the best mandolin orchestras in Germany. There are several videos available with the mandolin orchestra of Hessen (Hessisches Zupforchester). The orchestra is [...]