The cultural series is threatened - the organizer becomes wistful on the evening of the concert

Created: 06/08/2022, 19:48

By: Andrea Weber

Unusual and courageous: The youth orchestra "Bluestrings" from Fürstenfeldbruck.

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The "Society under the apple tree" in Icking is an institution.

The hostess Barbara Reimold worries about the continued existence: there is a lack of money.

Icking – The theater summer in the Isar valley has become an unprecedented cultural institution in the region in more than 15 years – a must-have in July for loyal fans.

That could change, because hostess Barbara Reimold welcomed the guests of the "Bluestrings" concert on Saturday evening with clear melancholy in her voice: "We are at the end of our strength." She thanked the loyal audience and the volunteers: " We urgently need patrons or financial sponsors.”

Icking: The cultural series is threatened – the organizer becomes wistful on the evening of the concert

In an interview with our newspaper under the roof of the catering tent that was newly erected this year, Barbara Reimold complained, although she does not like doing so: "It is an immense feat of strength and a financial challenge." Cables, tents and a stage would have to be laid in the spacious garden on Pfaffenleite , technology and seating can be set up and taken down.

"And if a storm comes, everything starts again".

Fewer events is not a solution, she says.

"Then the costs won't justify themselves." Reimold and her team are looking for solutions.

It would be a pity and a great loss for the region if there were no more "society under the apple tree" - those incomparable summer evenings in Barbara Reimold's garden on Pfaffenleite, where the crickets chirp, the black cat sneaks around and the ducks in the peck grass for snails,

while the audience enjoys culture.

Every year in July there is an exquisite program with cabaret, theatre, readings and concerts.

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On Saturday evening, eleven young musicians from the string orchestra "Bluestrings" from Fürstenfeldbruck presented big band sound on stringed instruments.

"What we play is unique," said orchestra leader and jazz violinist Frank Wunderer.

"Another Story" is the name of the current program with swing and jazz on violin, viola, cello and double bass - unusual and courageous composed or newly arranged by the young people themselves.

Bluestrings play at "Gesellschaft unterm Apfelbaum"

In 2004 the music teacher and studied jazz violinist Frank Wunderer founded the "Bluestrings", a kind of "string big band" so to speak, with the idea of ​​using jazz to teach his students how to improvise and play solo in front of an audience.

"It's a matter close to my heart that the young musicians learn to express themselves," he says. The guests experienced what then arises: a virtuoso playing with lively changes in sound, with rhythm on the wooden instrument bodies and a cheeky mix of styles.

Jazz standards like Chick Corea's "Spain" or Count Basie's "The Flight of the Foo Birds" in a completely different way, without brass and brass.

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