Don’t howl with the wolves? Don’t worry, you won’t be in danger even if you perform in a pack like the wolves. And that means singing together: pack singing. And it is the original pack singing with the musicians Simon Bröker and Maximilian Saul, which even appears twice in the recently published 2024/2025 event flyer from the concert and theater management of the Kleines Haus in Delmenhorst. On September 26th and December 3rd, the Delmenhorst audience is invited to experience “the most beautiful songs to sing along to”: hits, pop, popular songs. “There’s something for everyone,” they say.
The sentence can be a programmatic representation of what the Delmenhorst audience can expect in the coming season. The “sing-along event” is just one of a total of 32 musical events with which the Kleines Haus will once again become the center of Delmenhorst’s cultural life.
Unknown names with high musical quality
In the Little House, the audience is offered a varied program of music, theater, cabaret and readings. As far as music is concerned, one could become melancholy when looking back to the old days of classical music. Back then, the theater house scored with four orchestral concerts, seven chamber concerts and world stars such as Grigory Sokolov, Herman Prey and the Amadeus Quartet. Today, however, the lesser-known names are of course still associated with high musical quality, which remains even when, as one can sense, high culture is changing into entertainment culture. Immediately after the convivial group singing on September 27, there will be an evening under the heading “From the big to the high C” as part of the concert subscription series. Soprano Katharina Kühn and tenor Lukas Anton present “Pearls of the Art of Vocal Art” – accompanied on the piano by Delmenhorst pianist and conductor Adrian Rusnak. Michael Müller will host the evening.
The second subscription concert on November 26th departs from the traditional program framework in the direction of “cross-over”. The pianist Christoph Soldan and the Silesian Chamber Soloists, who also recorded all of Mozart’s piano concertos in a highly acclaimed recording, play a program “From Vivaldi to Deep Purple”. Music between classical and pop, arranged for piano and string quintet.
Anyone who has a subscription will also be able to attend the traditional New Year’s Concert on January 2, 2025, when the Lviv Philharmonic will play “lively classical music” with works by Verdi, Bizet and Rossini. Gudni A. Emilsson will conduct, with mezzo-soprano Kremena Dilcheva and trumpeter Stanislav Massaryk performing as soloists.
Only one concert has the old classical format: It is the spring concert on March 24, 2025 with the Delmenhorst Municipal Orchestra under the direction of its conductor Adrian Rusnak. With its title “…and everyone expects a celebration,” it arouses excitement about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s overture to “Cosi fan tutte,” Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s violin concerto, and Ludwig van Beethoven’s symphony number 7. One can be particularly excited about the work “Masquerade” by Aram Khachaturian, of whom only his famous “Sabre Dance” is generally known.
Musical theatre for young and old
The musical theater is represented by the Johann Strauss operetta “Die Fledermaus” (January 28, 2025) and the rock’n’roll show “Buddy in Concert” (January 16, 2025), which is based on the musical “Buddy – the Buddy Holly Show.” Cabaret/chanson is available with Tim Fisccher and his program “Glücklich” or Michael Müller with a Georg Kreisler evening entitled “Von Rabenschwarz bis Zappenduster” (November 10, 2024).
The concert and theater directorate is even offering a jazz concert this season. For December 7, 2024, they have invited the Berlin jazz quintet The Toughest Tenors with the two tenor saxophonists Bernd Suchland and Patrick Braun.
There will also be musical theater for children, and on December 10, 2024 (morning at 10 a.m.), the Mannheim Music Theater will perform the musical fairy tale “Fredo and the Dragon” for children aged five and over. A “Musical Voyage” with highlights from various musical classics from all over the world is dedicated to the illustrious musical. Date: February 16, 2025. And like every year, the old year will be bid farewell with a big New Year’s Eve gala under the heading “Stars meets Comedy” with comedian Martin Sierp (December 31, 2024, 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.).
Countless theater performances, political readings and magic shows make the Kleines Haus full of colorful life every week of the year.
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