Yehudi Foundation: Bringing joy to the Gaißacher specialist clinic with music

Created: 02/12/2022, 3:00 p.m

By: Ines Gokus

Happy about the successful afternoon (from left) Ernst-Johann Prince Biron von Curland, Florian Mayrhofer, Inge Rosenmüller, Andreas Winkler and Prof. Dr.

Edda Weimann – who briefly removed the masks for the picture.

© Ines Gokus

The Yehudi Foundation is again bringing concerts to the Gaissacher specialist clinic.

The events bring great joy to the chronically ill children.

Gaißach - "Music heals, music comforts, music brings joy" - that was a motto of Yehudi Menuhin, one of the greatest violin virtuosos of the 20th century.

As early as 1977, the artist founded the organization “Live Music Now” in London.

Thirty years ago a German foundation was established in Munich.

It combines two of Menuhin's concerns: to bring music to people who, due to their circumstances, cannot go to the concert hall and at the same time to support young, talented musicians who are at the beginning of their careers.

They are selected according to strict criteria, only the best should take part.

Music is played in hospitals, retirement homes, hospices, prisons, accommodation for asylum seekers and for 17 years - in the time before Corona - regularly every two months in the Gaißacher specialist clinic for chronically ill children.

On Thursday it was time again, for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic: The duo "Almrausch", consisting of the musicians Andreas Winkler and Florian Mayrhofer, brought the Styrian harmonica and the tuba and gave the little patients and their parents an enjoyable one Hour with a musical fairy tale story.

The duo had applied for the foundation in the folk music category and is now playing in the clinic for the fourth time.

Incidentally, the musicians are also known from the “Maxjoseph” formation.

: "Some children have never seen a musical instrument before."

Also guests were Inge Rosenmüller, who was responsible for organizing the concerts in the specialist clinic for many years, and Ernst-Johann Prince Biron von Curlan, one of the founders of the foundation, who has now become her successor in office.

The concerts were always very important to Inge Rosenmüller.

Because: "Some children have never seen a musical instrument before."

Who knows, maybe that's why one of them became a musician?” The medical director of the specialist clinic, Professor Dr.

Edda Weimann thanked the foundation members for using their facilities for these special concerts and for the children benefiting from them.

They playfully showed the children music and instruments: Florian Mayrhofer and Andreas Winkler.

© Ines Gokus

Everyday life in the clinic consists of many nursing and therapeutic measures and the concerts, which in this case are specially tailored to children, are great fun for everyone and should also encourage participation.

In any case, the musicians of "Almrausch" had the full attention of the four to twelve year olds.

They went at eye level and included the children in the story in a humorous way.

For the little ones, for example, there was the princess looking for her prince.

But also characters for the bigger ones, like Erwin the Serious, who hasn't laughed since 1997, or the dentist, Franz the Terrible.

Each character in the fairy tale had its own melody and dialect, and the children were also given an explanation of how the tuba and Styrian actually work.

At the end, the children were allowed to choose their favorite songs and pushed the musicians to their limits.

“Unfortunately, we can't do AC/DC.

But we'll practice a lot until next time and then we'll play it," they promised.

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