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Musikverein Eching is preparing a public restart: rehearsals behind plexiglass walls

2020-09-22T15:14:00.595Z


Culture is one of the economic sectors hit hardest by the Corona crisis. Clubs are also clearly feeling the side effects of the pandemic, such as the Sankt Andreas music association in Eching.


Culture is one of the economic sectors hit hardest by the Corona crisis.

Clubs are also clearly feeling the side effects of the pandemic, such as the Sankt Andreas music association in Eching.

Eching - If, under the motto “social closeness despite spatial distance”, the creative use of digital media has succeeded in maintaining the all-important cohesion among the active players for months without a personal encounter, the musicians are happy that there are real rehearsals together again .

However, the general conditions and requirements for a large wind orchestra of almost 50 participants are difficult and time-consuming to organize.

A particular handicap is that the many-headed and polyphonic ensemble as a "big whole" is not allowed to make music together for the time being - and for an indefinite period of time.

A mere 15 musicians can be seated in the precisely measured and well-ventilated rehearsal room of the music school while maintaining the required minimum distances - and conductor Rick Peperkamp works behind high Plexiglas walls.

There the musicians, with a changing line-up, prepare their first appearance after an almost four-month break, after both the spring concert in April and the dance evening in June fell victim to Corona.

Serenade in the churchyard with surprises

On Sunday, September 27th, at 3 p.m. in the parish churchyard, the brass orchestra of the St. Andreas Music Association invites you to an open-air serenade.

Admission is free, but donations are welcome and welcome.

If the weather is unsuitable, the concert will be moved to the Neu-Andreas church.

A prior reservation of seats at info@mv-eching.de or Tel. (0 81 33) 90 77 40 is necessary, because the number of seats is limited.

The well-known COVID-19 regulations apply, in particular the requirement to wear a mouth and nose cover when entering and leaving the venue.

“What exactly is being played should really be a surprise for the audience,” says Rick Peperkamp, ​​who has taken over the baton in the wind orchestra since May 2019, to keep the tension high.

The young professional conductor from the Netherlands reveals a few inviting details.

“Our colorful and varied program is perfect for outdoors and a listening pleasure for young and old.

This includes a little bit from our canceled spring concert and the canceled dance evening 'The Best of Latin' ”, he vividly advertises.

“More than 50 percent has been rehearsed with pieces in the Baroque style - but also with Italian marches.

And we honor Beethoven a little because of his 250th anniversary. "

TV series as a listening pleasure

In November - more precisely on the 21st in the community center - there will finally be a revival for the spring concert that has not taken place, which is also an autumn concert with the promising motto “TV series”.

Among them are catchy tunes from the "Sendung mit der Maus", "Game of Thrones" or "Tintin".

The repertoire is tailored on the one hand to children and young people, but also to the somewhat older music lovers and television viewers who are invited to a melodic journey through time to the popular television formats from their youth.

Whether the autumn concert with all three formations, the beginners, youth and large wind orchestras, can be realized so easily with the usual ensemble strength?

"That is still in the stars," says the music association.

Corona numbers and Corona measures continue to set the pace - and the fear of a second wave remains.

Peperkamp believes and warns that level and motivation would be at stake if it were not permitted in the foreseeable future to rehearse and perform with orchestral strength under normal conditions.

He sees the music and theater industry at a significant disadvantage with regard to the restrictions on sport.

Association chairwoman Maria Migge also draws attention to a very mundane, but very decisive factor for the continued existence of musical volunteer work: “If we do not succeed in generating concert income, the future will not look good financially.

Because our fixed costs remain. ”And a space problem for a music association of this size, which is dedicated to the symphonic wind tradition and young talent, is in the truest sense of the word unsolved.

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Source: merkur

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