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Helena, welcome to the BOC. Where does your interest in music and singing come from? Helena: My interest in music started with singing. It would take a lot of effort … Read more...
Tauran, welcome to the BOC. When did you first become interested in music? Tauran: Music has always been part of my life. My dad plays the guitar and my mum is a good … Read more...
Bernd, you are a new member of the BOC, welcome. Where does your musical interest come from? Bernd: During and after primary school, I took keyboard lessons for a few … Read more...
Rosa, welcome to the BOC. Where does your interest in music and especially choral singing come from? Rosa: As far back as I can remember, I've been singing all my … Read more...
Created as musical miniatures in 2023 and 2024, five different individual movements are summarised as a collection under the title Geminids 23. What unites these small, independent movements is their reference to events in the year 2022/23. However, the instrumentation and occasion of each …
12 Oct 2025 View concert (past): Choir with large organ in the Philharmonic HallMass in D major, Antonín Dvořák.
"Don't be surprised that I am such a believer," wrote the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) to his patron in 1887 after he had completed the "Mass in D major". "But an artist who does not believe does not accomplish such a thing." Between personal devotion and artistic maturity The words …
12 Oct 2025 View concert (past): Choir with large organ in the Philharmonic HallFinds from great composers on the wrong track.
A mass by the Romantic composer Robert Schumann is worthy of attention in several respects. In Lutheran Zwickau in Saxony - the composer's birthplace - one could hardly encounter the Catholic liturgy. Moreover, Robert Schumann was not a churchgoer in the true sense of the word. At best, he developed …
30 Mar 2025 View concert (past): “Choral Fantasy”: Beethoven / Bizet / SchumannA victory song becomes a birthday serenade.
On 5 December 1757, the Prussian army under Frederick II defeated the Austrian troops in the Battle of Leuthen during the Seven Years' War. The Lower Silesian and now Polish town became the scene of a legend when, on the evening after the battle, over 20,000 soldiers are said to have spontaneously …
29 Sep 2024 View concert (past): Anniversary concert: J. Brahms, T. Hennig, L. Janáček
