As of: March 24, 2024, 3:00 p.m
By: Volker Camehn
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Applause for the young wind players: The two big bands from the high schools in Icking and Geretsried once again gave a joint concert in the Hinterhalt cultural stage.
On the right: conductor Benjamin Schäfer.
© HAns Lippert
Geretsrieder and Ickinger high school students recently played an impressive double big band concert in ambush.
Around 50 musicians crowd onto the stage for the big finale.
Gelting
– the sheet metal will fly away!
Around 50 musicians crowd onto the stage for the big finale.
With trombones and trumpets they send “Bad Romance” over the ramp, this lucid and famous Lady Gaga hit.
After that it's over.
There are English exams looming the next morning.
This year the double concert was also a great success
The big double big band concert in the banging Geltinger Ambush on Wednesday evening is an unusual special in the renowned cultural stage basement.
This could become a habit.
Last year, the concert concept of the high school students from Icking and Geretsried worked really well.
“Intercommunal Big Band Association” was the headline in our newspaper at the time.
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Timeless pieces and “classics of the peace song repertoire”
Proven dramaturgy this time too: To get you in the mood, a six-person student combo from Icking plays under the direction of Benjamin Schäfer.
Among other things, there is the Pink Floyd evergreen “Wish You Were” and “Imagine” (John Lennon), a “classic of the peace song repertoire,” says Schäfer.
“Maybe at some point we won’t need it anymore.” Also touching: Ickinger’s ballad-like original composition, “Feel like a song”.
After that, it's all over for contemplation.
Instead, rhythm is a must, for example “a little pop music within our means,” as bandleader Schäfer mischievously understates.
There's also a pinch of jazz (such as Herbie Hancock's “Cantaloupe Island”).
The young people clearly enjoy the music of their parents and grandparents.
Why is that?
“These are all timeless things,” explains Schäfer.
The solos were widely applauded
The performance of the big band colleagues from Geretsried under the direction of Alfred Menzinger is, so to speak, incomplete.
Because “due to absences due to illness,” Menzinger himself takes up the trombone.
Colleague Schäfer also helps out on bass.
Here the bosses still play themselves. And if someone has left their music somewhere - then Menzinger uses it to introduce the band until the music sheets are back.
Irritation in short, but it's live and such oversights are not without charm.
You couldn't have thought of anything better.
There's a lot of applause for the solos, "On Broadway" (George Benson), swansong for the famous boulevard, grooves sneakily, "Route 66" is still bone dry, and Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" kicks in a tried and tested manner.
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“You can see what can happen when you give young people musical instruments instead of games consoles,” says Menzinger happily after almost two hours, before the “Uptown Funk” really starts.
Bad Romance?
Are you kidding me? Are you serious when you say that.
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