Karlsfeld - She is 16 years old and plays the first violin: Lola-Marie Schwingeler is the youngest member of the Karlsfeld Symphony Orchestra (KSO) and has been a member since the beginning of August.
When you talk to her, you often hear the phrase: "I have a lot of fun."
BY ELFRIEDE PEIL
Anyone who has always played a string instrument or knows someone who is learning it knows: practicing alone in an otherwise quiet little room is as great as, let's say, playing football alone.
You are satisfied when you hit the right note or have the kick, but only in interaction with others does it become a pleasure.
That's what Lola-Marie means when she says: "It's a completely different experience when you hear the full sound of the orchestra."
She began to learn the violin when she was about eight years old: “I always found the sound so beautiful.” Like generations of children before and after her, she started with the inevitable recorder, but then she preferred to use the violin .
Not only is it difficult, it is.
That was back in Australia, where her father was working.
Lola-Marie is now in 11th grade at the Effner Gymnasium in Dachau and has violin lessons at the Karlsfeld Music School, conveniently with Bernhard Koch, the conductor and musical director of the symphony orchestra. What also applies to jogging or going for a walk also applies to playing instruments: "Corona made me pretty bored," says the student. One and a half hours of practice six days a week was a very welcome activity. And an effective and meaningful one at that.
She has been playing in the amateur orchestra since the beginning of August and has been "well received" by the older and long-standing members, as she says. She started right away in first violin. They are currently rehearsing for the concert in Advent (December 11th, 6 p.m., Bürgerhaus) Franz Schubert's 3rd Symphony, the overture to the opera La Clemenza di Tito (Titus) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the musical sleigh ride by Leopold Mozart, as well as the Concerto for two cellos in G minor by Vivaldi.
Although she describes herself as “perfectionist”, she is not worried about the demanding program: “It always happens that you don't hit a note so one hundred percent.” And, very pragmatically: “That's what the rehearsals are for.” But listening to each other, adjusting to others and making wonderful music together - that is "a lot of fun."
Anyone who always has a violin or other string instrument in the case unused in the household should unpack it as quickly as possible in order to treat themselves to such fun and join the orchestra.
The KSO is always looking for reinforcements.
The rehearsals are on Tuesdays from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the St. Josef parish hall on Schulstrasse,
The Karlsfeld Symphony Orchestra turns 30 this year.
It was launched on October 8, 1991. At that time, just six musicians gathered around the conductor Bernhard Koch for a first rehearsal.
The first concert took place in 1992.
Since then, the KSO has appeared regularly, especially in the Karlsfeld Bürgerhaus, and is still headed by Koch.
The orchestra is happy to invite soloists to these concerts.
We are currently not only looking for more strings, but also oboe and brass players.