The Corona crisis has not only hit athletes hard.
Music, leisure, cultural and other associations also suffer from the contact restrictions and the ban on events.
Merkur presents the clubs in a loose series.
Today it's about the Unterpfaffenhofen-Germering choir community.
Germering
- Almost exactly a year ago, the Unterpfaffenhofen-Germering choir opened the choir year in the St. Jakob church with their traditional annual mass.
What nobody knew at the time: It was the last public appearance of the choir community for many months.
Then Corona struck.
Since then, club life has taken place digitally.
The annual fair took place in St. Jakob on February 2, 2020.
Soon after, Corona spread across the world.
The first lockdown followed, and with it the end for many appointments of the choir community (CGUG).
All rehearsals and concert dates had to be canceled.
“And yet the choir life did not come to a standstill,” says Winfried Gessner, spokesman for the association.
Choir director and conductor Caroline Lichtinger-von Stein has been providing her protégés with extensive sound and theory material for practicing at home since the beginning of the first lockdown.
"Instead of the weekly choir rehearsal, the singers will find practice files in their mailbox every week, separated by vocal groups, for rehearsing new choral pieces, material to deepen their theoretical knowledge and selected choral works from successful CGUG choir concerts to sing along with," reports Gessner.
The CGUG spokesman compares the activities of the choir with nature almost poetically: “Just as in the dark, cold season of the year all growth and blooming in nature seem to come to a standstill, the CGUG is currently preparing itself in the necessary seclusion - each for himself - for the end of the pandemic, the beginning of joint rehearsals and public appearances. "
In this way, among other things, a four-part choral movement of the work "May the streets bring us together" was created from separately recorded and digitally merged voices.
According to Gessner, this is an Irish wish for a blessing, "which like hardly any other song expresses the deep desire for a reunion, a personal encounter - a feeling that many people certainly share in times of distance and contact restrictions".
In this spirit, pastor Andreas Christian Jaster took over this recording for a church service.
"This way the choir got closer to its Germeringen audience, at least digitally," says Gessner.
Club profile:
Year of foundation: 2003 (as a merger of MGV Liederquell Unterpfaffenhofen and the mixed choir Germering)
Members: 122, of which around half are active singers
Contact: rudi.braunegger@chorgemeinschaft-germering.de Internet: www.cgug.de