2012
Season starts up on January 16, where we will
appreciate new singers who want to find out if acquaintance with classical
music and a group of well-mooded singers appeals to them, before finally
joining the choir.
This will be developed on an external choir
weekend in the autumn.
2011
The
choir had 3 concert performances in Berlin in August. One concentrated on
sacral and two with secular repertoire. The choir was granted a special gift
after the conclusion of the concert given in the cultural center at Antonplatz:
A picture composed by a local artist with various houses and the choir.
Moreover we sang at the city hall in Schoeneberg, where president Kennedy
declared: "Ich bin ein Berliner". Something new was introduced: a
text booklet with the Danish and Latin texts plus a parallel German translation,
some of them made by a little group of choir members.
We continued the German line: November gave 3
performances of Brahms' A GERMAN REQUIEM, a project supervised by the Birkerød Choir and their conductor Torben Svendsen,
accompanied by the Copenhagen Youth Symphony Orchestra. Solo parts were
performed by soprano Aileen Bramhall Itani and baritone Andreas Lundin.
Friday, December 2 the choir was incorporated
in one of the usual Friday Night Vesper arrangements in the Church of the Holy
Spirit in Copenhagen. We performed Danish versions of Silent night and Lobe den
Herren. In addition two lesser known works: Gammel julesang (Olde Christmas
Carol) by Danish Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller and Ave Maria by Joseph Gabriel
Rheinberger from Liechtenstein. Every hour has its specific topic, so the
church-goers could experience many kinds of music.
Sunday, December 4 at Hundige Church.
Together with Kildebrønde Girls' Choir and the children's choir we took part in
the traditional Festival of 9 Lessons and Carols. Henrik Colding-Jørgensen, the
organist, had made an arrangement where the choirs intertwine and sing with the
congregation.
Tuesday, December 20 in Hans Egede's
Church, Østerbro in Copenhagen, we had a well-visited good hour of Christmas
concerto, only with the choir and Nadja Aristoff on organ. In a few songs we
involved the congregation.