Level of a music high school: Tutzinger students inspire at Christmas concert

Created: 12/23/2022, 4:12 p.m

The school orchestra played, among other things, three movements from Bizet's L'Arlesienne suite.

© Dagmar Rutt

The students of the Tutzinger Gymnasium delivered an impressive Christmas concert - a successful mixture of classical and modern pieces.

A student from Ukraine received special applause.

Tutzing - With a musically very demanding program, the students of the Tutzing High School ended the year on Thursday evening and got in the mood for Christmas.

The line-up was bombastic and the event had the quality of a music high school: three different school choirs sang, the school orchestra and the big band played, and three soloists from the Ukraine also enthused with their performances.

There were 150 participants in total.

Stephan Beck (music teacher) and Thomas H. Zagel (head of music department) were satisfied.

The auditorium was bathed in Christmas splendor and it was difficult to find a seat, so many people had gathered - perhaps also because it was the first concert of this kind since 2019 due to corona.

The guests stood in the hallways and could hardly wait until the lower school choir started and began the cheerful "Zumba, zumba, what a singing".

One musical highlight followed the other, and it was a pleasure to watch, because the students obviously had a lot of fun making music together.

Arkadii Bryzhanenko, for example, very talentedly performed Handel's Adagio and Allegro from the Violin Sonata in F major.

The Ukrainian student received great applause for his outstanding game.

The Ukrainian student and solo violinist Arkadii Bryzhanenko received special applause for Handel's Adagio and Allegro from the Violin Sonata in F major.

© Dagmar Rutt

Overall, the mixture of classic, traditional and modern pieces was very successful and well chosen.

Stephan Beck had rehearsed three movements from Bizet's L'Arlesienne suite with the school orchestra.

The large school choir, conducted by Thomas H. Zagel, added an Advent carol from the Renaissance (“Nun jauchzet all”) and delighted everyone with its extensive repertoire.

The same applies to the lower school choir, which also performed gospels with charming, bright voices ("Go, tell it on the mountain").

The big band kept hitting modern tones and interpreted, among other things, "Imagine" by John Lennon.

The entire program filled almost two hours.

The Christmas concert came to a brilliant conclusion with “White Christmas”.

The school choir sang, accompanied by the school orchestra.

Beck and Zagel are pleased that their subject music is so popular at the grammar school.

“We have about three times as many students in the lower school choir this year compared to last year,” says Zagel.

The large school choir also has a surprising number of male singers.

"We have eight tenors and eight basses and we have to choose very carefully from the applicants."

Alexandra Joepen-Schuster