The musical roots of the “conTAKTe” choir day back again to 1989. At that time singers from various communities and denominations from the Lüdenscheid and Herscheid space collected. Their intention was and is to get in contact with their listeners and to do it musically “on time” – this also describes the identify and its spelling.
Herscheid – Choir customers obtained this on Sunday night in the Apostelkirche. The entry of the singers into the sanctuary was introduced musically. With the South African people song “We are marching in the light-weight of God” (We are strolling in the mild of God) and the subsequent, amusing welcome track by Oliver Gies “Hallo, hallo, how are you, how are you?” the spark quickly jumped to the audience.
The centerpiece of the performance was the soul reasonable of Kai Lünnemann, a popular musician in the diocese of Osnabrück. With a assortment of tunes from gospel, pop, rock, NGL jazz and soul, the worlds of rock and church have occur collectively to “inspire men and women to believe by means of tunes”. The central elements of the classic church liturgy were being established to new tunes with catchy and catchy choral audio and in the design and style of the items they ended up skillfully connected collectively in unique languages: German, English, Latin and partly even Hebrew.
In harmony with the compositions, the liturgical articles was strengthened in its statement. With the outstanding musical accompaniment of Rolf-Edgar Gerlach (piano), Lucas Langbehn (saxophone) and Jens Gerlach (drums), choir director Wolfgang Kimpel carried out this amazing musical company.
At the finish of the just one-hour concert, the audience in the active Church of the Apostles thanked them for this function with a extensive applause. Viewers appeared to agree that they would be delighted to be capable to reconnect with this lively chorus on a repeat.
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