The hope of the choir speaker Monika Soyer-Bauer, "Bavarian songs that put you in a good mood, will echo over Marienplatz and hopefully delight the Schongauers after a long concert break in bright sunshine", did not quite come true.
But at least it stayed dry at the open-air concert of the Schongau City Choir under the motto “A sunny place”.
Schongau
- And at least at the first of the two concerts last weekend, the sun peeked out from between dark clouds. When the choir singers and alphorn players from the music school first formed around one o'clock, there was initially only a small audience. Except for the guests of the Ballenhaus and the other restaurants - initially only a few passers-by remained.
But in the course of the performance, a solid group of listeners formed all around on the benches, chairs and around the fountain.
The performers deserved that too.
As Soyer-Bauer had previously explained, the preparations for the lockdown were anything but easy: “We used the compulsory break to practice polyphonic Bavarian songs.
First each one individually with exercise files that choir director Markus Bauer recorded for us, and recently again with joint choir and voice rehearsals. "
But such deficits in practice were not noticeable.
The choirs tackled the matter full of vigor and audible passion for singing.
At the opening yodel, "Drei Hae über d´Alm her", choirmaster Bauer was the lead singer - and his crowd cheered up.
The alphorn players began to play with powerful tones that resounded far across Marienplatz.
The singers let “Auf's Tanzn bin i ganga” follow with a swinging dance.
The second alphorn piece was very worn, withdrawn and very atmospheric.
The choir followed suit with an intimate love song with “Kimm Sche Hoamli de Nacht”.
The alphorns sounded almost like a chorale, blown wonderfully clean, which is not so easy with these.
It was nice to see how the choir turned to the winds as they performed.
“Friederike” offered a small scenic interlude: women's and men's choirs were positioned opposite each other and presented a typical argument between the sexes that ultimately ended with the marriage (“But yes, but yes: now i mog!”).
Playing was obviously a lot of fun for the singers.
There was also particularly loud applause for this number.
The alphorns followed calmly and contemplatively.
The cheerful, exuberant song “A sonniges Platzl” had a completely opposite character.
Incidentally, three-quarters of the two dozen singers of the Schongau City Choir are made up of female singers and only a quarter of male voices - a phenomenon that they share with many choirs.
The soprano sounded bright and clean, the alto warm, while the men gave everything, but, unsurprisingly, the sound was sometimes lost a little.
The winds closed with an impressively richly fanned out sound.
Choir director Markus Bauer then turned to the audience to thank them.
A few moderating words in the concert would be nice next time.
SABINE CLOSER
