{"id":44163,"date":"2019-04-10T09:14:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T07:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.steinmuehle.de\/blog\/2019\/04\/10\/at-bands-on-stage-the-steinmuehle-celebrated-20-years-of-the-stonemill-house-band\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T17:34:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:34:25","slug":"at-bands-on-stage-the-steinmuehle-celebrated-20-years-of-the-stonemill-house-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/blog\/2019\/04\/10\/at-bands-on-stage-the-steinmuehle-celebrated-20-years-of-the-stonemill-house-band\/","title":{"rendered":"At \u201cBands on Stage,\u201d the Steinm\u00fchle celebrated 20 years of the Stonemill House Band"},"content":{"rendered":"

The students have graduated\u2014but the band is still here. And has been for 20 years. Frank Wemme, educational director at Steinm\u00fchle, is the man behind the StoneMill House Band. Naturally, the educator and passionate musician didn\u2019t miss the chance to host the evening himself at the Steinm\u00fchle music group\u2019s anniversary concert\u2014featuring many musical guests. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever something went really well, they graduated from high school,\u201d he announced to the audience in the packed hall. To outsiders, it all seemed like a smooth transition over the years. That alone is worth celebrating. And a concert, of course. <\/p>\n

The program kicked off with a performance by the 5th and 6th-grade band. Their singers demonstrated just how powerful even young performers\u2019 voices can be. The following performance by Katharina Filin, accompanied by Olaf Roth, inevitably brought to mind the British rock and pop singer Bonnie Tyler. It was an impressive performance. <\/p>\n

Talea and Fynn Konnertz surprised the audience with \u201cTalk\u201d\u2014not a conversation, but an original composition by the guitarist and the singer, whose voice really shone in this piece. The duo also performed \u201cSlow dancing in a burning room\u201d and \u201cApologize,\u201d accompanied by host Frank Wemme on drums and keyboardist Dirk Konnertz. In his \u201cday job,\u201d Dirk is the executive director of the Steinm\u00fchle School Association. But he\u2019s also a musician at heart. <\/p>\n

A little high, a little low: The Marburg Music School\u2019s saxophone ensemble, conducted by J\u00f6rg Eichberger, provided one of the evening\u2019s highlights with their performance of Queen\u2019s ballad \u201cBohemian Rhapsody,\u201d delivering a detailed rendition of the three parts of this legendary piece.<\/p>\n

Following the *Rent* project\u2014the distinctive follow-up to Talea Funk\u2019s widely staged *Hamilton* project\u2014the audience was left with goosebumps: Music teacher and concert tenor Daniel Sans, accompanied by his wife Marie on piano, Fynn and Dirk Konnertz on guitar and keyboard, Bodam Lee on violin, and Frank Wemme on drums, sang \u201cYou Raise Me Up\u201d to the audience.<\/p>\n

Following this impressive performance by the sextet and a rhythmic set by the jazz ensemble, the curtain rose on the birthday celebrants. Although the StoneMill House Band\u2014currently consisting of 15 members\u2014hasn\u2019t actually been around for the entire two decades, the members were happy to be celebrated and performed their latest songs. Being part of this school band is truly not a matter of age, as their drummer, a seventh grader, impressively demonstrated. <\/p>\n

Dressed in white, the upper-level choir, directed by Daniel Sans, bid the audience farewell after a varied evening of music. But not without first performing Pink Floyd\u2019s \u201cThe Wall.\u201d In true style\u2014at a school. Because that\u2019s exactly where the lyrics belong. <\/p>\n

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The students have graduated\u2014but the band is still here. And has been for 20 years. Frank Wemme, educational director at Steinm\u00fchle, is the man behind the StoneMill House Band. Naturally, the educator and passionate musician didn\u2019t miss the chance to host the evening himself at the Steinm\u00fchle music group\u2019s anniversary concert\u2014featuring many musical guests. \u201cWhenever […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":44166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,101,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-music-theater","category-events-celebrations","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49224,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44163\/revisions\/49224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}