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There was most recently a major performance of “Carmina Burana” in the Maierhof of the Benediktbeuern Monastery in 2022.
One could also take place this summer, provided the KlangKunst association can afford the big stage.
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A big performance of “Carmina Burana” is actually planned for the summer in the Maierhof of the Benediktbeuern monastery, in which the Benediktbeuren gardens and school children will also take part.
But financing is difficult.
Benediktbeuern – Carl Orff’s cantata “Carmina Burana,” premiered in 1937, is one of the most popular and most frequently performed works ever.
Usually performed with vocal soloists, a choir and a symphonic orchestra, there is also an economical version with just a wind orchestra or, even cheaper, with just two pianos.
Andrea Fessmann took the exact opposite approach when she brought a performance to the open-air stage of the Benediktbeuren Maierhof in the summer of 2022, which enriched the music with dance interludes and “magical images”.
Fessmann would like to ignite this “fireworks of music, dance and images” again this summer.
“In addition to the KlangKunst Choir, the Benediktbeurer Garden as well as the usual outstanding soloists and great musicians, some from the Munich Philharmonic, will be on stage,” explains Fessmann.
“The children from the Benediktbeuern primary school have also been asked to take on the children’s choir part.”
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In total, a choir consisting of around 100 singers, as well as around forty children from the children's choir, the musicians, two pianists with a grand piano plus four percussionists with numerous instruments and the dance group would be on stage.
“In order to accommodate all of these, a lot of space is needed, significantly more than for the other concerts that are planned for the same period,” says Fessmann.
“The additional costs for renting the large stage alone are immense.” Neither the non-profit organization KlangKunst im Pfaffenwinkel, which is behind the choir, nor the Center for Environment and Culture (ZUK) based in the monastery could afford this alone.
That's why everyone started looking for supporters and sponsors to make this extraordinary project possible.
“If you would like to help us make the currently impossible possible, or if you know people, companies, foundations and institutions to whom you could forward our call for help, please feel free to contact us,” appeals Fessmann.
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Contact and account:
Andrea Fessmann can be reached at the email addresses andrea.fessannn@icloud.com and info@klangkunst-im-pfaffenwinkel.de.
The donation account number is: IBAN 75 7035 1030 0032 3284 11, account holder: KlangKunst im Pfaffenwinkel.
The association is non-profit and can issue donation receipts.
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