Prize Singing
Competition
Saturday 10 June 2006

Prize Singing Rules

Prize Songs

Adjudicators

Music Corrections & Updates

The choruses of the New York State Sängerbund, under the direction and guidance of the Bundes Music committee, have developed the following rules to be applied to the 2006 Sängerfest Prize Singing Competition. They are listed under the categories that each apply, Adjudicators, Bundes Music Committee, Chorus, Competitive Singing Categories, and Music Director. Much thought and discussion went into the form and substance of these guidelines. They were designed to promote and encourage more participation by all choruses of the Sängerbund. Please review these musical standards and see how they may apply to your chorus.

No chorus should feel that they must drop out of either the competition or mass chorus concert. Every voice, including yours, should and must be heard to continue promoting and advancing German culture and tradition through music and song. What heritage are you leaving for you grandchildren? Show them what it meant when you or your parents left their heimat for greener pastures. They had to work hard and fight for their existence but still had time to join with others in a tribute to Gemütlichkeit, Freundschaft, and Kameradschaft.

Sängerfest 2006 Prize Singing Rules

Adjudicators

1. The adjudicators will not penalize nor reward a chorus because of the key chosen for their prize songs.

2. Adjudicators shall not calculate final grading until all the societies in a particular category have completed their presentation.

Bundes Music Committee

1. The order of the competition for the 2006 Sängerfest is:
Ladies Chorus, Men's Chorus, Mixed Chorus 2nd Class, Mixed Chorus 1st Class.

2. Within each category, societies will draw for the order in which they shall compete. This drawing will occur at the Bundes Music Committee meeting on Friday afternoon of the Sängerfest weekend.

3. Societies shall determine for themselves the order of presentation of their two prize songs. The order of presentation shall be declared to the Bundes Music Committee at the Friday afternoon meeting.

4. Societies may choose to sing any prize song in the key of their choice. Any key changes must also be announced to the Bundes Music Committee at the Friday afternoon meeting.

Chorus

1. Choruses singing competitively in any category will be required to sing any 2 songs, chosen by them, from the list approved songs distributed by the Bundes Music Committee. There will be NO REQUIRED SONG in any category. The two songs may be sung in any order; however, the Bundes Music Committee Chairperson must be notified prior to the performance.

2. Choruses may sing their songs in the keys chosen by their music director. The choice of key must be announced to the adjudicators before each song begins. The adjudicators will not penalize nor reward the chorus because of the key chosen.

3. A society shall be disqualified if the numbers of singers on stage exceeds the number of singers for whom head tax has been paid.

4. A singer may not participate in prize singing without displaying the Sängerfest Badge on his/her clothing.

Competitive Singing Categories

1. Competitive singing will be in three categories: Men's Chorus, Women's Chorus, and Mixed Chorus. Three-part songs are allowed in both the Men's and Women's competition.

2. Men's Chorus and Women's Chorus competition will have only one class. There will be NO restriction on the number of singers in the performing chorus.

3. Mixed Chorus competition will have two classes. First Class will be for songs rated as more difficult; Second Class will be for songs rated as less difficult. The verein music directors will continue to rate the songs prior to a Sängerfest, as they did in the past. Choruses may sing their two songs in the class they have chosen without regard to the number of singers performing.

4. A Non-Competitive category has been established for those choruses who would like to sing and be evaluated by the adjudicators without being involved in the competitive singing. The adjudicators' reports would not be used by the Bundes Music Committee for any purpose and will be given only to the participating chorus.

5. All Kinderchore performances at a Sängerfest will be non-competitive.

Music Director

1. The director of the chorus may not sing with his/her chorus. Violation of this rule shall lead to disqualification of the chorus.

2. The director may give the following notes by piano at the beginning of each song: The first note for each voice part. These notes may be given twice. If all voice parts begin on the same note, the director may give that one note plus the tonic chord of the key in which the piece is written. This may be done twice. Non- conformance shall lead to disqualification.

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1

Auf Flügeln des Gesanges (Mendelssohn)

2.9

2

Das Geheimnis (Blume)

3.0

3

Der untreue Schatz (Reske)

2.6

4

Frühlingsahnung (Mendelssohn)

2.8

5

Frühlingsverein (Loewe)

3.4

6

Glück

2.8

7

Heiden-Röslein (Schubert)

3.3

8

In blauer Nacht (Abt)

3.0

9

O Deutches Lied (Reske)

3.1

10

O Wäre ich Wieder Daheim (Reske)

3.0

11

Wanderliedchen (Fischer)

2.9

1

Ahnen Gruss (Presber/ Reske)

3.4

2

Der Einsiedler an die Nacht (Kern)

3.0

3

Heimat (Hanfen)

2.2

4

Heimat und Vaterland (Goepfart)

2.2

5

Ich schwing mein Horn ins Jammertal (Brahms)

2.6

6

Jung Volker (Rontgen)

3.2

7

Leise sinkt die Nacht hernieder (Beethoven/Schmid)

2.2

8

Schöne Nacht (Nagel)

2.3

9

Sonnenwärts (Feuerbach /Reske)

3.7

10

Weinlied (Lissmann)

2.9

11

Wer recht in Freuden wandern will (Lissmann)

3.2

Gemischterchor 1st Class Prize Songs
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Abendfriede am Rhein (Neumann)

3.0

2

An der Weser (Pressel/Reske)

3.5

3

Die Forelle (Schubert)

3.3

4

Die Uhr (Loewe/Reske)

3.3

5

Es waren zwei Königskinder (Reger)

3.9

6

Es Zog manch Lied (Dvorak)

3.4

7

Es zogen drei Sänger (Volkslieder)

3.4

8

Guten Abend, guten Abend (Volkslied)

3.3

9

Im Abendrot (Schubert)

3.0

10

Im Walde (Reske)

3.3

11

Jäger-Quodlibet (Lang)

3.2

12

O süsser Mai! (Brahms)

3.7

13

Waldandacht (Abt)

3.4

14

Waldesnacht (Brahms)

3.4

15

Zieh' mit! (Angerer)

3.1

Gemischterchor 2nd Class Prize Songs
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Abschied vom Walde (Mendelssohn)

2.5

2

Die Eintracht (Mozart)

2.6

3

Estnische Hochzeit (Volkstanzweise)

2.6

4

Hans und Liesel (Woyna)

2.3

5

Im Wirtshäusel (Roessler/Fredhoven)

2.7

6

Jubilate, Jubilate ( Volkslied)

2.5

7

Lebewohl (Silcher)

2.7

8

Lore (Reske)

2.9

9

O Heimat dort drüben am schönen Rhein (Fliersbach)

2.4

10

Sommerlied (Puckert)

2.5

11

Wanderschaft (Zöllner)

2.5

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Dr. Thomas Folan

Dr. Thomas Folan is a specialist in the music of the Baroque. At home with the repertoire from the 16th to the 18th centuries, he is an expert in the music of J.S. Bach, particularly the large-scale choral works. Dr. Folan is the Artistic Director and Conductor of Publick Musick, a nationally recognized orchestra and choir. The distinguished German musicologist, Alfred Mann, Professor Emeritus of the Eastman School of Music, and Frieder Bernius, director of the Kammerchor Stuttgart, are among his mentors.

Dr. Thomas Folan has directed Bach Festivals in Elmira, Ithaca, and Rochester Hew York and has served on the faculties of Skidmore College, the University of Rochester, and Cornell University. He holds bachelor degrees in Music and German from Oberlin College and Conservatory, a Masters Degree in Conducting from Ithaca College and a Doctorate in Choral Conducting from the Eastman School of Music. He and his family currently reside in Rochester, New York.

Dr. Lee Harold Pritchard

Lee Pritchard taught as a member of the Music and Theater Arts Department faculties in the School of Fine and Performing Arts- at SUNY New Paltz from 1964-2005. During his tenure at the college, Professor Pritchard served as chair of the Organization Committee. Presiding Officer of the college faculty, chair of the Department of Theatre Arts- chair of the Fine & Performing Arts Council, and from 1994-2004 was chair of the Music Department.

For more than a decade Pritchard directed the Women's Chorale-then the oldest performing ensemble on campus, being founded in 1900. The group toured extensively in the '60's and '70's, singing with male glee clubs throughout New York State and the Northeast, and in many festival concerts. After seventy-six years of annual concert performances and touring, the group disbanded in 1976-

Professor Pritchard received his undergraduate music training at SUNY, College at Fredonia, and completed his master's degree at Indiana University School of Music, studying conducting with Donald Moses, voice with Roger Havranek and diction with Paul Matthen. Doctoral study in choral conducting and repertoire at IU was done with Fiora CoiUino and German musicologist Julius Herfbrd. Pritchard has been accepted fourteen times as an international auditor studying conducting/choral techniques with Robert Shaw and other conductors participating in the 1993-2006 sessions of the Choral Workshops sponsored by Carnegie Hall. He was also accepted as an auditor in the Robert Shaw Choral Institute held at Furman University in June 1998.

Maestro Prilchard has directed the Camerata Chorale since 1966 and the Ulster Choral Society since 1978, and has been guest conductor of many other select choral ensembles in the Northeast for over 40 years. His work in theatre led to the establishment of a Musical Theatre degree program at SUNY New Paltz, where he directed over 50 musical productions for the New Paltz Players, the New Paltz Summer Repertory Theatre and McKenna Productions. Additionally he has directed productions for the Poughkeepsie Ballet Theatre. Ninety Miles Off-Broadway. and the (Duchess] County Players and served as the Director of the Bardavon Opera Chorus, Poughkeepsie.

As a co-founder of the Hudson Valley Gilbert & Sullivan Society, Pritchard served on the Board of Directors from 1978-1988 and during that time was Music Director and Principal Conductor, directing the entire Gilbert & Sullivan canon, and other operettas and American Musicals. He has been a choral arts consultant to the Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie, and has served as arts consultant to the Broadway Theatre/Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.

Professor Pritchard has served as a vocal/choral adjudicator for music festivals in the Northeast and Midwest for over 40 years, judging many choirs and singers for the New York State School Music Association, as well as for many private choral and vocal festivals including the New York Slate Saengerbund Festivals in 1994, 1997, and 2006. While teaching as a Professor of Music and Theatre Arts at SUNY New Paltz, he regularly taught conducting, form and analysis, piano, choral literature, classical voice and voice for theatre courses- He is frequently a clinician in the choral arts.

Pritchard is the founder and conductor of the Bach-Handel Festival Orchestra, an ensemble formed in 1984 for use in the choirs' three-year Bach-Handel Festival which commemorated the 300th Anniversary [1985] of the births of Bach and Handel. The orchestra continues to perform regularly with both the Ulster Choral Society and Camerata Chorale. Between 1978-1990 Pritchard prepared choirs for annual Symphony Series concerts with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, conducted by Imre Pallo. In 1991, 1993, 1995. 1996 and 2000, Ulster Choral Society and Camerata Chorale sang several major choral works, twice including the Berlioz Requiem, with the St. Cecilia Chorus/Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, under the direction of David Randolph.

Under Pritchard's artistic direction the Camerata Chorale and the Ulster Choral Society have grown in stature and continue to be highly acclaimed by area critics and audiences. During the 1994-1995 Season the groups presented New York and World Premieres of major works by contemporary composers Herbert Haufrecht and Richard Einhorn. In October 1995, Camerata Chorale performed the Voices of Light Opera-Oralorio by Einhorn at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. This was repeated in Poughkeepsie, April 2001 with guest artist Anonymous 4. In 1998 Camerata Chorale produced its first CD entitled; Voices in the Valley. A second CD entitled: A Musical Bridge, was produced by Camerata Chorale/Ulster Choral Society in 1999.

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Updated 28 April 2006

The Music Directors of the New York State Sängerbund choruses, under the direction and guidance of the Bundes Music committee, have submitted the music to be considered for inclusion in the 2006 Sängerfest Prize Singing Competition. Much thought, discussion, and deliberation went into the rating and selection of these songs. Even though many different musical professionals reviewed all of the approximately 100 pieces of the original music, we have been informed of some corrections.

1. Ladies Chorus Prize Song "Heiden-Röslein" (Schubert) rating 3.3. If your Ladies Chorus has chosen Heiden-Röslein as a prize song, please make the following correction.

Measure 35:
the lyrics read "half   ihr" this is grammatically incorrect and should read "half   ihm".


2. Mixed Second Class Prize Song "Lore" by Reske. Please click on the button below to view and print a corrected version of Lore

The competition music was selected to stimulate good choral presentation and to promote and encourage more participation by all choruses of the Sängerbund. If your Music Director finds any other problems, or has any further questions, please contact the NYSSB Bundes Music Committee Chairperson Gail Miller. Thank you for your continued support, cooperation, and patience.

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