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“On stage you shine from within”
Helga, how did you get into the BOC? Helga: My mum and I were guests on a steamboat trip with the Berliner Volkschor because some of our family were already choir … Read more...
“It’s great that rehearsals aren’t always so serious”
Marita, what got you into choral singing? Marita: I attended a concert by the Berliner Volkschor with cheerful opera melodies that really inspired me. When I read an … Read more...
“After the wall was built, we kept the seats free”
Wolfgang, you are our longest-serving member of the BOC. What do you think of when you remember your beginnings? Wolfgang: Especially the year 1961. Before the Wall … Read more...
“The choir can be a family”
Irmgard and Ursula, you have been singing soprano together for 51 years, first in the Berliner Volkschor, now in the BOC. What makes singing in a choir so special for … Read more...
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‘From the heart – May it go to the heart again!’
The challenge of the late mass, which Beethoven himself described as 'thegreatest work(s) I have written so far', is extraordinary. Masterpieces with similarly intense artistic demands on all performers can be counted on one hand. Nevertheless, the story of the work's creation begins quite unspectacularly: in 1819, Archduke Rudolph, … [Read more...]
