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DVD and the performance music CD produced
by Prairie Public Broadcasting, Fargo, North Dakota, copyright
2005
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sm.jpg) In
the 18th and early 19th centuries, thousands of German-speaking
peoples established major German settlements in Russia,
first along the Volga River in the north, and secondly along
the Black Sea in South Russia and nearby Bessarabia. Eventually,
many migrated yet again, this time to North and South America.
Throughout their travels, these Germans now Germans from
Russia maintained their traditional religious music, their
lullabies and folk songs, their vocal and instrumental music
alike.
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Soulful Sound, Music of the Germans from Russia blends
expert commentary with performances of traditional music
from regional talent, including St. Andrew’s Lutheran
Centennial Choir (Zeeland, ND), University of Mary Concert
Choir (Bismarck, ND), Jamestown College Concert Choir (Jamestown,
ND), Young People’s Hutterite Singers (Hawley, MN),
Alive Gospel Choir (Kulm area, ND), James Valley Singers
(Jamestown, ND), Centennial Men’s Choir (Harvey area,
ND) and the Napoleon area folk singers. Singers featured
in the program include Maria Appelhans (Fort Collins, CO),
Rosalinda Kloberdanz (Fargo, ND), John J. Gross (Napoleon,
ND), Tony Wangler (Kintyre, ND) Robert E. Erbele (Lehr,
ND) and Ron Volk (Harvey, ND). sm.jpg) Enjoy
Marv Zander (Mandan, ND), Victor Schwahn (Bismarck, ND)
and their bands as they perform accordion music and recreate
a traditional wedding reception in the Blue Room in Strasburg,
ND; and take a trip to Torrington, WY, to partake in an
evening of “Dutch Hop” music.
A Soulful Sound, Music of the Germans from Russia
was produced by Prairie Public Television in partnership
with the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, North
Dakota State University Libraries, Fargo; and the Germans
from Russia Cultural Preservation Foundation. It is the
fourth in a series of documentaries about the Germans from
Russia produced by Prairie Public Television.
Includes 40 minutes of bonus performance
footage.
Production funding provided by the North Dakota Council
on the Arts, The North Dakota Humanities Council, Roger
and Bernadine Lang Kuhn, Clarence and Marilyn Bauman, Thomas
and Janice Huber Stangl, Michael M. Miller, the Germans
from Russia Heritage Society, and the members of Prairie
Public Television.
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2006 Aurora Award
"A Soulful Sound Music of the Germans from Russia"
produced by Prairie Public
Broadcasting in cooperation with the Germans from Russia Heritage
Collection, NDSU Libraries, Fargo, and The Germans from Russia
Preservation
Foundation with additional funding from the The North Dakota
Council on the
Arts, The North Dakota Humanities Council, Roger and Bernadine
Lang Kuhn,
Clarence and Marilyn Bauman, Thomas and Janice Huber Stangl,
and Michael M.
Miller has won a 2006 Gold Aurora Award in the Documentary-Cultural
category.
The program has been distributed nationally to PBS stations
by NETA.
The Aurora Awards recognizes individuals in the film and
video
industries who have achieved that same ability to captivate
their
audiences with the displays produced from their own creative
forces.
Competitors come from private and corporate production groups,
advertising agencies and television stations throughout the
country.
The Aurora Awards is also an international competition designed
to
recognize excellence in the film and video industries. Entries
have
come from across the US, and abroad. such as Canada, Hong
Kong,
Denmark, Mexico, etc.
The judging functions are performed by panels of working
film and
video professionals that are set up in major cities across
the
country. Most are writers, producers or directors who are
previous
award winners. Judges with specific proficiencies are matched
with
specific categories; for example music composers sit on the
original
music panels. The basic premise of the judging structure for
the
Aurora Awards is receiving the endorsement of your peers that
your
work is outstanding. Programs are judged on a fixed scale
in areas of
creativity, message effectiveness and technical excellence.
Added
together this provides a score that is measured against an
absolute
scale to determine if the program is award worthy or not.
Using this
method there could be several winners in one category or none
at all.
Overall scores from each panel are also compared to a statistical
model to see if there is a consistency and fairness in each
panel.
Less than 2 out of every 10 entries receive an award.
Bob Dambach
Director of Television
Prairie Public Broadcasting
Fargo, North Dakota
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Comments about documentary:
We watched the documentary last night. It
is an excellent production. You have
preserved another important piece of the German-Russian culture
for this generation
and those to come to appreciate. We enjoyed having the opportunity
to be a part of
the music for it. My wife, Lucinda (Schmitt), is from a German
-Russian family. Her
father and his siblings grew up in the sacred music tradition.
Her grandparents had
one of those beautiful pump organs and her grandfather played
it and the children
sang with him. One of her cousins still has the organ.
--- Jeff Malm, rural Kulm, North Dakota
Member of the ALIVE Gospel Choir
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For more information about the Germans
from Russia videotape documentaries, consult the following
websites:
Prairie Public Broadcasting, Inc., Fargo,
North Dakota
http://www.prairiepublic.org
Germans from Russia Heritage Collection,
North Dakota State University Libraries, Fargo, North Dakota
at the Media section "Video Documentary and Other Projects"
http://library.ndsu.edu/grhc
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A Soulful Sound: Music
of the Germans from Russia
The price of A Soulful Sound DVD is $30 each plus
postage and handling.
The price for A Soulful Sound performance
CD is $15 each plus postage and handling.
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Permission
to use any images from the GRHC website may be requested
by contacting Michael
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