Category: Music

The miners’ chapel in stockheim is always good for a surprise. This year, too, the klangkorper convinced at the traditional christmas concert in the school gymnasium with a top-class program – and this already for the 45th time. Male. And that is an absolute county record. Thus the scarce have demonstrated remarkable continuity.

The audience appreciates the class of this band. The school gymnasium was therefore excellently filled with 400 visitors from near and far. In addition, music lovers obviously couldn’t get enough of the miners’ band’s specialty, namely high-quality concert wind music. Only after two encores the audience love the 49 musicians and their conductor michael botlik from the stage of the festively decorated school gymnasium.

Kase and music, some people think of the "handkas" from hesse, which is called "with music" because of the noises during the digestion process. But the swiss are now on the trail of a completely different phenomenon. They test whether the sound of ripening cheese influences taste.

It all started as an art project at the university of the arts in berne. "We wanted to send the students out into the world to realize projects outside of the university. You should deal with practical problems," says christian pauli, communications manager and project manager at the university. In the search for such projects beat wampfler, veterinarian from burgdorf in emmental and hobby-case handler, came into play.

"Off to tanzania heibt a project of the evangelic-lutheran church in bavaria, which is under the patronage of regional bishop dorothea greiner. 16 young brass players from upper franconia want to make music together for two weeks in august next year with musician friends in northern tanzania on the slopes of kilimanjaro and get to know different cultures.

"Rebekka brought the flyer from the project to the rehearsal. I got wide-eyed and thought, "that’s something for me, tells anna wehrfritz, wind player with the trombone choir hetzelsdorf. Her father, also a brass player in the trombone choir, may have shaken his head, but the very next day the 18-year-old applied to the state trombone director ralf tochtermann in nurnberg and was accepted.

What do people dream about when they attend a song recital by a prominent singer?? Hope for a concert on the edge of perfection? This is what you will get if you are fans of christian gerhaher, as the opening night of the festival "lied& lyricism" just under a week ago in the landestheater has proven. Or are you looking for the orphic magic of song par excellence? Then you are at the right address with thomas hampson, as the final evening of this year's festival at the landestheater proves.

Mahler to schonberg