Ralph Clasen taught a cooking class at the Turner Hall Oktoberfest, and has provided the recipes for the dishes he made during the class. I apologize for the delay in posting them here; but it took me a while to reformat the recipes in a convenient form. Any typos or other problems you may find in the file are my fault, not Ralph’s. Please click on the link below for the Oktoberfest recipes in PDF format:
Cooking_Class_Recipes_Oktoberfest2013
Enjoy!
Our annual Christmas Concert & Dinner will be held at Turner Hall, 3001 S Stoughton Road in Madison, on Sunday December 15, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. After the concert, there will be a visit from Sankt Nikolaus followed by dinner at approximately 5:00 p.m.
We’re past the deadline for reservations, but if you didn’t quite get around to making a reservation, don’t worry – there will be tickets available at the door.
Tickets are $23/adult & children 13 or older. Children under 13 eat free when with an adult also eating dinner. Cash bar. Tickets for the concert only are $8/adult. For the full details, please click on the link below:
Our annual Christmas Concert & Dinner will be held at Turner Hall, 3001 S Stoughton Road in Madison, on Sunday December 15, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. After the concert, there will be a visit from Sankt Nikolaus followed by dinner at approximately 5:00 p.m.
Tickets are $23/adult & children 13 or older. Children under 13 eat free when with an adult also eating dinner. Cash bar. Tickets for the concert only are $8/adult. For the full details, please click on the link below:
Christmas Concert & Dinner Information
Please make your reservations by December 10th. Email xmas@madisonmaennerchor.org or call Alan at (608) 335-0770.
Last Saturday a couple of us attended a lutefisk dinner at Christ Lutheran Church in DeForest. For those who are unfamiliar with lutefisk, it is air-dried cod preserved with lye. It’s a traditional food in the Scandinavian countries, and in the Midwest lutefisk dinners are common in the fall, typically sponsored by a Lutheran church with a Norwegian heritage.
The lutefisk dinner at Christ Lutheran was quite good:
If you are wondering why a post about a Norwegian lutefisk dinner is on the web site of a German mens choir, just consider it an exploration of the stinky foods of other cultures. Or perhaps it’s because the web master had two great-grandparents who were born in Norway. Skål!
The choir took part in the Oktoberfest activities at Madison’s Turner Hall on Saturday October 26, 2013. The keg was tapped at 1:00 by the Burgermeister Dick Blatter. Music was provided by Jerry Stueber and The Music Vendors – we sang at around 4:00 during the break between the bands.
Other highlights include Ralph Clasen’s cooking demonstration and the supervised open gym for the younger guests. Check out the pictures below:
The 2013 WSB Kommers was held in Sheboygan on Saturday October 19. We tied for third place with the Milwaukee Damenchor. Milwaukee Liederkranz was second and MGV Harmonia from Kenosha took home the traveling trophy.
The Gesangverein Concordia did a great job of organizing the competition and the dinner. Next year it will be our turn to host Kommers.
Here are a few pictures:
The Madison Maennerchor sang at Wauktoberfest on Sunday September 22, 2013 and Endres Manufacturing in Waunakee. Although the news from the Packer game was not so good, it was a great afternoon to be outside and enjoy the food, music, beer and dachshund races.
We sang at 2:30 and then took a break to watch the dachshund races and then sang again from 3:30 to after 4:00. In addition to the pictures below, there are a couple of short videos as well.
The Madison Maennerchor sang at the Essen Haus Oktoberfest on Saturday September 14, 2013. It was a beautiful afternoon to be outside and enjoy the music, food and beer.
Jason Rowe provided the music during the early afternoon, with the Dorf Kappelle taking over at 4:00. We sang a short set of Oktoberfest songs around 3:00 during one of the breaks.
For those of you who are on Facebook, the Maennerchor has a new Facebook page:
The choir didn’t sing at the Middleton Good Neighbor Fest this year, but several of us took part in the 5 K race. And naturally we had to “replenish fluids” after the race.
We’re looking for a second tenor for next year’s race, to complete the quartet.
MMC singers after finishing the 2013 Middleton Good Neighbor Fest 5 K race