A look back at challenging months

Posted onAuthorUte Konnerth

Like many choirs in Germany, the Stuttgarter Oratorienchor e.V. has been hit hard in its annual planning by the measures taken against the pandemic. Rescheduled or Cancelled: The choir’s regular rehearsals (regulation by the federal state and school closures for “external users”) since mid-March. The traditional Palm Sunday concert in April 2020 (A. Pärt “Stabat Mater” and Mozart’s “Requiem” in the special “Levin version”). A one-week concert tour to Bolzano/Bressanone/Caltern/Rovereto and Trento, IT at the invitation of the “Haydn Orchestra Bolzano” in June 2020 with the unpublished oratorio “Durchzug durchs Rote Meer” and “Te Deum” by J. N. Hummel and Read more…

Concert collage

Choir Retreat or Choir Retreat Time?

Posted onAuthorUte Konnerth

In the last few weeks, choir singers have almost forgotten the term “choir retreat”. Since mid-March, the exact opposite has been the case. Even if the current circumstances prohibit normal rehearsals at the STUTTGARTER ORATORIENCHOR – we are still ACTIVE! And this is how it is: everyone sings in their own rooms at home. The choir is more or less in remote work. Each singer practises and learns new things for himself/herself at home and in this way keeps his/her own voice supple. This is done with the help of practice files for the Hummel oratorio Der Durchzug durchs rote Read more…

No rehearsals – No concert – No everyday life…

Posted onAuthorUte Konnerth

Surely word has already spread that our Passion Concert on Palm Sunday will not take place. The reasons for this are sufficiently known to everyone. The Stuttgarter Oratorienchor has stopped rehearsals since Friday, 13.3.2020 until further notice. Just a few weeks ago, no one could imagine that everything we took for granted until now would be banned, closed or canceled. For now, there is only one thing we can do: We all participate in the effort to get some grip on this health crisis affecting our entire society. After all, we all want to enjoy wonderful music in concert halls Read more…