Excerpts from Hans Kopp’s July 14, 2009 report on the concert:

A respectable crowd of native Germans, neighboring cultural garden members, and people touring the garden on foot or on bike. who took time out to enjoy this concert presented by Cleveland’s: “Deutscher Musikverein”.

The concert, under the direction of Rosie Wittine, was well received. It featured music from Vienna to the Rhineland and the North Sea. The selection ended with the rousing Radetsky March of Johan Strauss, Sr.

Christine Rappel, the president of the Musikverein, was thrilled that the band was given the opportunity to perform in the German Cultural Garden. She wants Musikverein to perform again in 2010 with an even larger band by augmenting Musikverein with additional musicians instrumentation from other local German bands.

To increase the attendance of those who would enjoy it, it will be publicized to a broader audience by using, for examples, flyers distributed at Judson sites and the German Altenheim.