 Distler Conference
March 1, 2008
Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn.
Join this celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Hugo Distler (b.1908).
Clinicians will discuss Distler's life, perform some of his music, and consider how it might be used in a congregational setting. A workshop on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who lived at the same time as Distler, will
address the German political context of the period and contrast Bonhoeffer's theological response with Distler's.
Register today! Download the
conference brochure
(PDF) and
registration form
(PDF) and send in your registration by
February 22.
- Distler's Organ Music for Church and Home, with Larry
Palmer
- Singing and Playing Distler for the Small Congregation,
with Kristina Langlois and Mary Kay Geston
- Hugo Distler's Germany and Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Confessing
Church Response, with Gary Simpson
Evening Prayer - "Totentanz"
The conference will conclude with a service of Evening Prayer,
which will include Distler's "Totentanz" (Dance of Death). This work, written in 1934, was stimulated by the medieval Dance of Death Chapel
at St. Mary's Church in Luebeck and by Angelus Silesius' Aphorisms
which Distler knew through Leonard Lechner's settings.
The service begins at 3:30pm in the Chapel of the Incarnation, Luther Seminary,
and is free and open to the public.
More Information
For more information about the Distler Conference, contact:
Kris Rongstad
Luther Seminary, MSM Office
2481 Como Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108
651-523-1612
or e-mail
krongsta@luthersem.edu
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