German Interest Group – November 2012

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The German Interest Group will meet at St. Mark Lutheran Church, 2921 Mt. Zion Ave., Janesville on Monday November 5 at 7:00 p.m.  Guest speaker will be Mark Louden, who is from UW-Madison, specializing in language contact, dialectology, Pennsylvania Dutch, Yiddish, and German-American studies.  At this meeting he will speak on Amish Music.  There is no charge to attend this meeting, and visitors are always welcome.  For questions, please contact Teresa Hines at (608) 931-3381.

German Interest Group – October 2012

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The German Interest Group will meet at St. Mark Lutheran Church, 2921 Mt. Zion Ave.,
Janesville on Monday October 1 at 7 PM. Guest speaker will be Robert Horton, who
is the Reference & Outreach Archivist at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum in Madison.
He will present a program on Germans in the Civil War. There is no charge to attend
this meeting, and visitors are always welcome. For questions, please contact Teresa
Hines at (608) 931-3381.

MMC begins 161st Season

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We are about to begin our 161st year of song and Gemütlichkeit. The Madison Männerchor invites you to consider becoming an Associate member. Your Associate membership helps us continue our 161 year tradition of German song and heritage.

Your Associate membership includes:

  • Two (2) tickets to our Spring Concert,
  • Notice of all of our social functions, and
  • The great personal feeling you get when you support the second-oldest organization in the United States dedicated to preserving German singing and Gemütlichkeit.

Upcoming scheduled events this year will find us at Essenhaus, September 15th for Oktoberfest (We sing at 3:00 pm); Wauktoberfest at Endres Mfg. in Waunakee September 25th (We sing at 2:30 pm and 3:30 pm); we are the guest choir at the Damenchor concert on October 21st in Milwaukee, and we perform a private concert at Oakwood Village West on November 15th at 7:00 pm. Our Christmas Concert will be at 3 pm, December 9th. Help make this a successful year by participating as much as possible.

 

German Fest 2012

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On Sunday, July 29th, members of the Madison Maennerchor participated in the annual Milwaukee German Fest Church Service. This year’s service is Lutheran, and we heard many fine youthful speakers as they read in both german and english. The celebration was in the Henry Maier Festival Ground’s Marcus Amphitheater. We had a wonderful, spiritual time, surrounded by friends in the “pew” and on stage. The Freistadt Alte Kameraden band provided a wonderful musical foundation for our singing.

Among the more than 200 choristers on stage were MMC members
Fred Berger
Klaus Bodenstein
Bill Dries
Paul Essert
Mel Grulke
Joe Johnson
Ron Kycek
Morris Sadicario
Greg Tatusko

MMC Thursday Night Festivities July 19 2012

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Singers,

Instead of meeting at the Essen Haus this Thursday, a few of us decided to give the Capital Brewery a visit instead. 7734 Terrace Avenue Middleton, WI 53562 (NOTE: No tables of drunks drinking mulitple glass boots of beer!)

The Bier Garten closes at 9:00, so we thought a gathering time of 6:30 – 7:00 would be more appropriate.

Hope to see many of you there!
Tim