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With the approach of the Max Raabe concert, I'm listening to a lot of old Kurt Weill. This one, from the  wonderful Pabst film of Threepenny Opera, is a favorite:

The singer, Carola Neher, came to a bad end in WWII. Bummer!

Max Raabe

Really looking forward to seeing the Palastorchester on Saturday!

Jubiläumskonzert Max Raabe from Grafschafter Nachrichten on Vimeo.

Arbeiters set list

1. Einzugs March
2. The Wanderer (baritone solo)
3. Florentiner March
4. The Sound of Music
5. Apollo March
6. Tales from the Vienna Woods
7. Knall BonBons I
8. Die Macht der Liebe
9. Alte Kameraden

Einzugmarsch with accordions:

A long version of Florentiner Marsch by Mnozil Brass, with many crazy shenanigans:

again with Ein halbes Jahrhundert

The music arrived but our programs are already set for the time being, so we haven't played it. Here's a recently posted performance of the piece:

Brunch with Very Rickenbacher

I just ordered the orchestra music for 'Ein halbes Jahrhundert'. I posted a video of this melodic number back in September. It was written in 2005, pretty recent for something like this!

Here's a radio show with the composer, Very Rickenbacher, who is roughly my age.

http://www.srf.ch/player/radio/volksmusik-brunch/audio/brunch-mit-very-rickenbacher?id=a5ac71f2-d12b-4804-acef-da4f9bcbfadd

Volkstrauertag

Yesterday was Volkstrauertag. One of the somber, brass-choir style tunes we played at Golden Gate National Cemetery was: Ich hat einen Kameraden. Unfortunately, there are a lot of YouTube videos of this tune with outdated visuals. The preferred spirit of the event is the pre-WWII version: a day of mourning, not hero worship.

We sounded something like this, but we didn't have the gunshots (maybe it's a canon?) which make it all the more moving.