Halved orchestra can also inspire

It was an annual concert like none before.

With half the cast, but twice the emotion and intensity, the Symphonic Wind Orchestra (SBO) Germering, under the direction of Rick Peperkamp, ​​thrilled the half-full Orlando Hall.

Germering

- It was the first concert of the year for the amateur orchestra playing at the highest level, as strange as mid-October sounds.

But everything will be different in the Corona year 2020.

After a difficult rehearsal time, because only with changing small line-ups, everyone involved was all the happier to finally be able to perform in front of an audience again.

Sometimes the musicians took turns so that everyone who wanted to play could do it.

It was a gift, said several times - but the actual recipients were the audience.

They were served a thoroughly coherent concert that rested on two conceivably opposing cornerstones: Viennese Classic and Wild West, neither of which was chosen arbitrarily.

After all, we are still in the Beethoven year, even if his 250th birthday has almost been forgotten because of the pandemic.

On the other hand, the great western composer Ennio Morricone died this summer, who at the age of 91 did not recover from the consequences of falling down stairs.

Under these circumstances, the first Allegro from Beethoven's famous Fate Symphony formed the appropriate introduction to a program that did not primarily want to be cheerful.

With the Corriolanus Overture followed another troubled, expressive work about a person who is perishing because of his disunity.

Alfred Reed's "Serenade for Clarinet" takes up motifs from Native American folk music and requires an ace on the clarinet to play.

At the SBO, the concertmaster is Carina Leithe, who received heavy applause from the audience after her solo and a noticeable “great” from conductor Peperkamp.

The 31-year-old Dutchman got married this spring in the middle of the corona lockdown.

At the moment of the ring change, a melody came into his head that, thanks to his photographic memory, he kept long enough to be able to write it down, he revealed on the sidelines of the concert.

"Papillon Plaisir d'amour" celebrates the butterflies in your stomach and exudes joy and hope in a time that Peperkamp, ​​like so many other cultural workers, experiences as extremely stressful.

The encore requested by the visitors was also in the sign of all people "who have left this world" - whether through Covid-19 or armed conflicts.

“Hymn to the Fallen” formed a moving conclusion, which was followed by a minute's silence without being asked.

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