As of: February 19, 2024, 7:00 p.m
By: Richard Lorenz
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The Passion Ensemble under the direction of Stefan Pellmaier rehearsed in the Camerloher High School on Sunday.
During the ensemble's rehearsals it quickly became clear how powerful and yet fragile in its nuances Pellmaier's passion would be on stage.
According to his own words, Pellmaier doesn't want to proselytize, but simply wants to show that everyone can take something from their passion.
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With this project, Stefan Pellmaier has fulfilled a dream: composing a passion.
The ensemble opened the doors to the FT during rehearsals.
Freising
– Stefan Pellmaier, head of the “Luz Amoi” formation, has long dreamed of: composing a passion.
The work will be premiered at the beginning of March, and Luz Amoi will also be performing it in Freising on March 3rd.
On Sunday the ensemble worked on the finishing touches and opened the doors to the FT.
Camerloher-Gymnasium, 10 a.m. in the music room: The Luz Amoi ensemble tunes the instruments and drinks their first cup of coffee.
“Let’s start with the scene when Jesus is arrested,” suggests Pellmaier, picking up his accordion.
What you then hear is touching and artistically brilliant.
Pellmaier succeeds in sketching the unrest, the market hustle and bustle and the great injustice of this time with incredible precision.
And he also gives the guests freedom of interpretation.
In other words: What Pellmaier has created with his passion is a total work of art that has never existed in this form before.
The big cross
Meanwhile, the spoken word artist Sarah Marie can be heard from the loudspeaker, breaking up the passion on the one hand with strong lyrics, but complementing it wonderfully on the other.
“I wanted it that way – that a woman wrote and narrated the texts,” explains Pellmaier, because it is simply important to him that expectations are coupled with surprises.
Your text passages will be reflected on an LED cross - a cross that will rise five meters high into the sky on the stage.
“It's a completely different dimension than the usual Luz Amoi concerts,” says Pellmaier - that's why they're traveling with three sprinters to bring all the equipment on site.
“Let’s play it a little slower,” suggests Pellmaier, who doesn’t sing his lyrics on Sunday but only reads them out because he wants to protect his voice.
After a short break, Pellmaier then wants to rehearse one of the most important scenes, namely the crossing of Jesus.
And it really has it all: the musical implementation is through the marrow, gives you goosebumps and is touching enough to make you cry.
In doing so, Pellmaier has outdone himself and taken the passion per se to another level.
The impressive thing: The hammering in of the nails is implemented musically, here Pellmaier works with the percussions - a sound that made the window panes of the high school vibrate and also all the nerve endings.
The “crucify him, away with him” in the choir, the murmuring and a musical storm: During the ensemble's rehearsals it quickly becomes clear how powerful and yet fragile in its nuances Pellmaier's passion will be on stage.
“This story is a story for everyone,” says Pellmaier.
He doesn't want to proselytize, but simply shows that everyone can take something from their passion.
“I've never done such an expensive and complex production before, it's new territory for me too,” explains Pellmaier after the last notes of the crossing scene have faded away.
Modern implementation
What Pellmaier must definitely say is that he implements the Passion theme in an extremely modern way, without being disturbing - rather, he handled the most important episode of Christ very carefully, extremely respectfully and extremely poetically in order to open it up to as many people as possible.
As a story that contains suffering, but is still full of hope.
What's also touching about Stefan Pellmaier and was also evident on Sunday: He is open to his ensemble's suggestions, or as is often heard from him: "Okay, then we'll do it this way, it's right!"
Good to know
Due to the high demand for tickets for the Luz Amoi concert “The Passion - a Promise for Heaven” on March 3rd in the Luitpoldhalle in Freising, there will be an additional performance - at 3 p.m.
Tickets are available at the Tourist Information Freising or at www.freising.reservix.de.