Buchenbach: New Year’s Concert 2011(Satis Shroff)

Auf Ferienreisen composed by Joseph Strauß was the next piece arranged by Herber Maizer. This time even the conductor Joseph Schuler turned up with a big overseas suitcase, donning a Tyroler hat and began furiously with a pacy pokla. Joseph Strauss was the brother of Johann Strauss the King of Waltz melodies like: An der schönen blauen Donau, Wiener Blut, Wein, Weib,Sang and Kaiser Waltz to name a few.

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MGV-Kappel: Weihnachtskonzert in Kappel (Satis Shroff)

A song that conjoured up images of South Africa was ‘Aya Ngena’ sung in Swaheli by the Männergesangverein, and promises of peace in the Middle East with ‘Hora Jerusalem.’ The Hebrew accents that we’d learned all these weeks and the fast tempi of the song got the audience raving…

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Green City Freiburg Honours Writer Satis Shroff

Courtesy: Badische Zeitung, Freiburg Courtesy: Badische Zeitung, Freiburg Courtesy: Dreisamtaeler, Kirchzarten Green City Freiburg Honours Satis Shroff At an official ceremony in Freiburg’s Exhibition Hall Ulrich von Kirchbach, the mayor in charge of Culture and Integration honoured the life work of Satis Shroff. In his laudatio, von Kirchbach presented an Urkunde from the City of [...]

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Kappel Chronicle: Whisper Words of Hope (Satis Shroff, Freiburg-Kappel))

The Männergesangsverein Kappel with their standard THE KAPPEL CHRONICLE (Satis Shroff, Kappel-Schwarzwald) Lambert Weis: Whisper Words of Hope It was a bright sunny day on the 6th of July 2010 and you could hear the birds chirping merrily in the adjacent birch and oak trees. We, the men of the Männergesangsverein were attending the funeral [...]

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