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“Friends of brass music” sat on stage and in the audience at the Otterfing brass music anniversary concert.
The band around conductor Robert Schüßlbauer presented their new CD.
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The well-wishers were met with applause and shouts of bravo: the Otterfing brass band celebrated its 25th anniversary at an anniversary concert.
And presented their new album.
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– The Otterfing brass band and its support association now had double reason to celebrate: They played in front of around 350 visitors at the Otterfinger Hof to celebrate their 25th anniversary and presented their new, now third, CD: powerful, hearty, real and rousing.
The Otterfing brass band opened its almost three-hour anniversary concert in a pioneering way with the lively march “Musikantengold”.
Right from the start, the 30 musicians set a mark with enthusiasm and concentration: fans of brass music should enjoy solidly interpreted, widely listened to pieces of music.
Therefore, it was no coincidence that “Friends of Brass Music” titled both the program and the accompanying CD – based on a composition by the very first conductor of the Otterfinger Blasmusik, Bertl Bauer.
After music club chairwoman Veronika Pallauf welcomed the guests to the anniversary evening, she recalled the beginnings of the brass band.
It was a dream come true in 1999 for Otterfinger music lover Robert Schaal and began with 66 founding members in April 1999.
Today the music club has 420 members.
Musicians pull out all the stops
The musicians shone with precise changes of motif and tempo and an engaging variety of colors, for example in the overture from Georg Stich's “Music Festival Sunday”.
Here, but also in the rousing “Pleasure Procession” by Johann Strauss, the pulsatingly lively concert waltz “Hereinspaiert!” by Carl Michael Zieher as well as other waltzes, marches and polkas from the most diverse cultural areas of brass music, they pulled out all the stops and showed the diversity of the styles command.
Sometimes the Otterfinger sounded orchestral, sometimes swinging like a big band, sometimes modern brass, Eastern European or even military - but always so rousing that the audience didn't skimp on applause, shouts of bravo or swaying.
Soloists shined in “Gabriella's Song”, the well-known title from the film “As in Heaven”, as well as in the touching end of Slavko Avsenik's “Shepherd's Song”.
Laura Bergaentzle's clarinet playing spoke of a feeling of home, and Gabriel Killer fascinated with his gentle and dedicated trumpet.
Both were allowed to repeat the last third of their piece as an encore.
Formative music masters
In between these musical delicacies, Franz Huber entertained with anecdotes, stories and jokes, but also with entertaining incidents from the area of Otterfinger brass music, for example about the late former music master Bauer, who founded and shaped the Otterfinger band and its style.
To this day, son Stefan Bauer is a powerful engine for the band on drums.
Moderator Huber also praised the essential contribution that today's conductor Robert Schüßlbauer has made to the development of the band for 17 years - with full physical effort and a lot of humor -, thanked the music association for their support and reported on the effort involved in producing the CD.
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The musicians put their heart and soul into the title piece “Freunde der Blasmusik”, the polka written by Bertl Bauer, and with “Mein Regiment”, a Blankenburg march, it came to an acclaimed end that had the whole hall clapping.
The three encores supplemented the evening with the previously missing CD titles, so that in the end the CD content and program content coincided.
With the polka “One Last Round” the enthusiastic audience “aussegspuit” past the CD sales.