The first piece is Charpentier’s Eurovision Fanfare. The older ones may remember: It used to be played in front of international television shows. And in fact, with the first few bars, the windows and doors to the courtyard of the “Domicil Aaseehof” open and the audience comes out. What’s going on here?
Music – live and with free admission! At the beginning of the Corona crisis, the Citizens’ Foundation for Münster launched its project “Das Klingende Seniorenheim”, and since then over 200 terrace concerts have taken place. During this time, more than 50 musicians played in front of 30 senior or care facilities. Once, to let your audience participate a little in public life. But also to have an opportunity to appear in the pandemic. “This means that two particularly hard-hit groups get attention,” says foundation director Anne Leusmann.
The upper deck as a podium
On Wednesday there was the start of a special tour: an ensemble of the trombone choir of the Westphalian Wilhelms University and the daring trio “Corona Brass Brothers” drove across the city in a red double-decker city tour: to the “Domicil Aaseehof”, to the Johanniter-Stift im Geistviertel, to a residential facility of the community diakonia in Hiltrup, to the senior center “Mitten in Mauritz” and finally to the senior facility at Tibusplatz. The open upper deck should actually be the stage, but such a large bus cannot drive up everywhere.
Doesn’t harm anything, the acoustics in the courtyard are great. The WWU trombone choir will present a medley of the most beautiful hymns, and the audience will go crazy with “Go out, my heart”. Above all, the passionate lecture by “Hevenu schalom alejchem” receives a lot of applause – perhaps with a view to the events in the Middle East? A resident of the Johanniter-Stift has hoisted the British flag: He is greeted by Elgar’s “Land of Hope and Glory”. And the “Brass Brothers” go one better and open their lecture with the “Internationale”. “The older people know that,” says Helmut Buntjer with a wink.
The project financed by donations is to be continued. In the coming week, the bus will head for facilities in Gievenbeck and Coerde.
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