Every editor is a human being,
and we need to consider regularly whether our view/approach to an issue brings out the best of humanity or not. (Geometry guy 28 February 2012)

• ... that the international Reger-Chor (pictured) celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2010, singing music of Bach, Van Nuffel, Ryelandt, and Reger's Hebbel-Requiem in St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden, and St. Salvator's Cathedral, Bruges?

• ... that Bach composed his motet for double choir Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf, BWV 226 (autograph pictured), for the funeral of Johann Heinrich Ernesti at the Paulinerkirche?
• ... that Gabriel Dessauer conducted in Wiesbaden the premiere of Max Reger's Hebbel Requiem in the organ version of Max Beckschäfer?
• ... that Ignace Michiels of St. Salvator's Cathedral has been the organist for the German-Flemish Reger-Chor in works such as Reger's Requiem?

• ... that Chieftain's Salute, composed by Graham Waterhouse is scored for Great Highland Bagpipe and string orchestra? (22 August 2009)
• ... that Graham Waterhouse (pictured) composed Rhapsodie Macabre for piano and string quartet as an homage to Franz Liszt and played the cello part in Munich and London?
• ... that composer and cellist Graham Waterhouse dedicated his Three Pieces for Solo Cello, described as "rhapsodic movements of great expressive strength", to Siegfried Palm? (History 10 April 2012)
• ... that Bright Angel, composed by Graham Waterhouse for three bassoons and contrabassoon, relates to the Bright Angel Trail of the Grand Canyon which the composer hiked with his father at the age of nine?
• more on Graham Waterhouse

• ... that the church choir Chor von St. Bonifatius (pictured) celebrates 150 years today, singing in Wiesbaden the premiere of a Missa solemnis by Colin Mawby, conducted by Gabriel Dessauer? (3 October 2012)

• ... that the prolific composer and Westminster Cathedral conductor Colin Mawby (pictured left) said, "I cannot write choral music unless I work with choirs ... I have to write for particular people"?
• ... that Andreas Boltz is the cathedral music director at the Frankfurt Cathedral Kaiserdom St. Bartholomäus?
• ... that the church St. Bonifatius was built in Wiesbaden in Gothic Revival style, after a first building had collapsed?

• ... that Markus Flaig brought Handel's darkness and great light to St. Martin, Idstein?
• ... that Samuel Barber derived his choral composition Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) from his successful Adagio for Strings, showing "the work's sense of spirituality"? (Good Friday 2012)
• ... that the solo parts of Joseph Haydn's oratorio Die Schöpfung were performed by Elisabeth Scholl, Daniel Sans and Andreas Pruys in the Basilika of Schloss Johannisberg?
• more on Chor St. Martin

• ... that Michael Herrmann is founder-director of the Rheingau Musik Festival, which holds about 150 concerts every season in vineyards and historical buildings?
• ... that Princess Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg turned the East Wing of Schloss Johannisberg into a concert hall for the Rheingau Musik Festival?
• ... that the piano duo Anthony & Joseph Paratore played Brahms at the first Rheingau Musik Festival, and entertained children with The Carnival of the Animals at the 25th?

• ... that Sebastian Weigle, named "Conductor of the Year" by Opernwelt three times between 2003 and 2006, performed Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Frankfurt Opera?
• ... that Andris Nelsons conducted Bartok's Viola Concerto and Mahler's Fifth Symphony in the final concert with his Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie in Herford?

• ... that Patrice Chéreau, born 2 November 1944, staged the 1976 centenary production of Der Ring des Nibelungen (pictured), conducted by Pierre Boulez?
• ... that the art photographers Anna and Bernhard Blume created Kitchen Frenzy and Pure Reason?
• ... that Hans Stadlmair, conductor of the Münchener Kammerorchester for almost four decades, in 1971 premiered Wilhelm Killmayer's Fin al punto, of which the composer said, "The calm already contains the catastrophe"?

• ... that the Neustädter Kirche (pictured) was built in Hanover's Calenberger Neustadt in the 17th century as one of the earliest aisleless churches in Lower Saxony?
• ... that Erich Barke, professor of microelectronic systems and since 2005 president of the the University of Hannover, was elected as president for a second term?
• more on Hannover

• ... that the Opernhaus Dortmund was opened in 1966 with Der Rosenkavalier, performed in Dortmund first in 1911?
• ... that Erna Berger sang the title role of Bedřich Smetana's The Bartered Bride in a 1955 recording with Wilhelm Schüchter and the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie?
• ... that the first stanza of the hymn Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist, asking the Holy Spirit for the right faith most of all, is documented in German in the 13th century, and the later three stanzas relate to faith, love and hope?

Did you know ... that in 1968, the German artist Bazon Brock created a sign in the style of a high voltage warning saying "der Tod muß abgeschafft werden ..." ("death must be abolished ...")?

death must be abolished,

this damned mess must stop.

He who speaks a word of

consolation is a traitor

(History 13 February 2012, translation: PumpkinSky)