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Offered a demanding program: the musicians of the city band, in our picture in the foreground the clarinetists.
© Anita Bartling
Harry Potter meets Perseus in Dachau Castle: The city band staged a captivating evening under the banner of myths and fairy tales.
Dachau – With an extremely demanding program, the Dachau city band swept the visitors to their annual concert off their seats on Saturday evening.
In over two hours, the musicians under the direction of Michael Meyer shone and were lured into several encores from their instruments.
But one after anonther.
This year the city band chose music on the theme of myths and fairy tales.
And as is often the case with musicians, a common thread only emerges in retrospect.
Because, as was heard from the ranks of the participants, two pieces had already been rehearsed once but were not performed due, among other things, to a canceled concert during the pandemic.
City band delights with a fairytale concert
But once you have discovered a treasure, you want to honor it accordingly.
So in preparation for this concert, the city band started looking for pieces that would suit the two of them well.
The result is a musical journey from ancient Greece, where Perseus defeats Medusa and Zeus woos Europe, to Harry Potter's battles against the evil forces surrounding Lord Voldemort.
The city band once again managed to create the right atmosphere from the first moment.
Dominik Härtl provided everyone with information about the pieces in his well-known humorous manner
Henriette Varga welcomed the visitors in rhyme, and Dominik Härtl provided everyone with information about the pieces in his well-known humorous manner.
The start was the almost dark and mystical music written by Steven Reineke.
The story of the twins Henriette and Sybille, whose birth in the 16th century was considered a bad omen, was told under the title “The Witch and the Saint”.
The musicians masterfully portrayed the fact that the fate of these two women developed against the background of the witch hunt.
At times, the impressive sound of the city band was reminiscent of Carl Orff and made the dark, overwhelming Middle Ages of the witch hunt audible and tangible.
Naturally taking part in the annual concert: the city youth kids together with the city youth band.
© Anita Bartling
When it came to the story of Max and Moritz, Dominik Härtl took a seat in the large red wing chair to read passages from the famous fairy tale by Wilhelm Busch.
The city band translated the jumps and boldness of the fairy tale into music just as skilfully as the powerful effervescence of an exploding pipe or the hunt for cockchafers, only to end almost gently and softly at the end when Max and Moritz, now ground into flour, will be eaten by the chickens and the whole nightmare will come to an end.
The program offered space for myths surrounding the Greek gods.
Before and immediately after the break, the program offered space for myths about the Greek gods.
A Perseus, who petrified people with Medusa's head and thereby shaped the Greek landscape, could be experienced tonally as well as God the father Zeus, who was outraged by Europe's hesitation, so that the music swelled to an orchestral fortissimo and the walls of the Renaissance hall in were bathed in fiery red.
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The audience applauded with hands and feet in the Renaissance Hall of Dachau Castle.
© Anita Bartling
How much music, as well as great stories, thrives on the interplay between the quiet, calm moments and the poignantly stirring or even shocking passages became noticeable when the city band invited people into the world of Harry Potter with Patrick Doyle's film music.
For many fans, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”, the fourth part of the wizarding saga, is the big turning point in the story, as it is here that evil threatens to win for the first time and even a protagonist dies.
The dark, powerful nature of the Triwizard Tournament got under the listeners' skin, just as the cheerful, light passages provided the necessary moments of relaxation and joy.
City band delights the audience
The piece “Alpina Saga” demonstrated that it can become mystical and enchanting without literary or filmic sources.
Here Thomas Doss set a mountain hike to music in which everything that can be experienced in the mountains can be heard.
Sometimes the fullness of the orchestra is as overwhelming as the natural experience of the Alps.
Then again it becomes mysterious with spherical sounds, as if fog were drifting through the forests and water was gurgling in secret.
And the horns celebrate the joy of a successful ascent and descent as if they were alphorns.
It couldn't be better.
And so it's not surprising that after the last note, no one was left on their seats and people applauded with hands and feet.
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