Year: 2021

Choir Project for Europe Day 2021

Posted onAuthorUte KonnerthCategoriesConcert

Eurovision melody unites five cities In the beginning there was – the PANDEMIC… choir singing was suddenly considered a dangerous “risky sport” and was forbidden! However, it was not forbidden to sing alone at home. In the course of spring 2020, the “stay-at-home style” also developed in the Stuttgarter Oratorienchor. Enrico Trummer, the musical director, therefore asked himself the following question: Couldn’t a virtual project bring together and inspire choir singers even “across borders” from different European countries? The famous Eurovision melody from the “Te Deum” by M.A. Charpentier seemed particularly suitable. Everyone knows this melody and it exalts the Read more…

SOC – Rehearsals online only for the time being…

Posted onAuthorUte KonnerthCategoriesUncategorized

A year ago, no one would have thought it possible that we would have to organise our (choir) life with such massive restrictions as we are now experiencing in January 2021. Contact restrictions, a nightly curfew from 8 p.m. onwards, bans on concerts in churches and on stages of any kind, and much more are forcing even a tradition-conscious association like the Stuttgart Oratorio Choir to learn to use the modern, technical means of communication of today. Of course, they are not an equivalent substitute for singing together, but in the current situation they are indispensable so that the pandemic Read more…