📜 1959 Brahms German Requiem Poster – First Congregational Church, Westfield, MA

Step back into a Sunday evening in small-town Massachusetts, where the soaring reverence of Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem was brought to life by local talent at the First Congregational Church of Westfield on May 3, 1959.

This large-format program or poster is a rare surviving relic of midcentury American civic music — printed boldly and without flourish, yet soaked in community, culture, and choral pride.

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🎶 What You're Holding:

• Title: Johannes Brahms – A German Requiem

• Date: Sunday Evening, May 3, 1959, 8:00 PM

• Location: First Congregational Church, Westfield, Massachusetts

• Performers:

  • Clarice Hastings – Soprano

  • Roger Dodds – Bass

  • LeRoy Hanson – Guest Organist

  • Warren Myers – Timpani

  • Lawrence Buddington – Conductor

• Printed in broadside-style with clean serif fonts and minimalist design

• Poster or program sheet on aged, uncoated paper stock (approx. 9" x 12" based on the ruler)

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🏛️ Why It’s Special:

• Local, historic concert ephemera from before the mass-printing of performance programs became standardized

• Represents a lost era of community choral traditions — when churches doubled as concert halls

• Westfield, MA’s cultural footprint from this time is scarcely documented outside of church archives

• Brahms’ German Requiem is a significant and ambitious work — not common for a civic ensemble

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