Schöneberg Boys' Choir
| Schöneberg Boys' Choir | |
|---|---|
| Seat: | Berlin / Germany |
| Founding: | 1947 |
| Resolution: | 2011 |
| Genus: | Boys' choir |
| Founder: | Gerhard Hellwig |
| Voices : | 30 ( SA ) |
The Schöneberg Boys 'Choir was a German boys' choir from Berlin , named after the Schöneberg district . The choir performed with around 30 boys each. They wore short black pants, black blazers with emblems, white shirts and white knee socks. The repertoire initially included German folk songs , Berlin hits and hits , later also opera choirs and other classical works.
Career
The choir of the Schöneberg Boys' Choir was founded by Gerhard Hellwig on November 12, 1947. Hellwig trained the boys and sang with them first in old people's homes, hospitals and in Berlin squares. Two years after its foundation took the then director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin , Heinz Tietjen , the choir in his home and engaged him in the performance of the opera Tannhauser by Richard Wagner . This was the beginning of over 3,100 opera performances in over 50 different productions in several languages, including from 1954 at the Bayreuth Festival , whose office for artistic organization was headed by Gerhard Hellwig from 1959.
In 1956 the young singers could be heard in the film Hochzeit auf Immenhof and a year later on vacation in Immenhof with songs by Hans-Martin Majewski . In 1958 the choir sang the first song of the ARD television lottery , Little People, Big Trip . Five years later the choir accompanied the singer Bully Buhlan in his song Junge Herzen haben Sehnsucht , the song of the ARD television lottery 1963. The versatile choir, who u. a. recorded an LP with songs from fairytale land with Manuela , and was featured in numerous television events.
In addition to its many appearances and commitments, the choir has also undertaken over 300 concert tours that have taken it to many European countries and overseas, including the world exhibition in Montreal in 1967.
Dissolution of the choir
Gerhard Hellwig died on January 15, 2011. With his death, the Schöneberg Boys' Choir also stopped their work.
Success title
- Goodbye
- Pack your swimming trunks with Cornelia Froboess
- Berlin boys, they are correct
- Our city doesn't stop at the Brandenburg Gate
Discography
Albums (selection):
- White Christmas 1975 (together with the Berlin Chamber Choir, large Berlin Symphony Orchestra and organ, recorded in the Rosary Basilica , Berlin-Steglitz)
- German folk songs (with Richard Clayderman ) 1988
- Greetings to Potsdam 1992
- We want to be friends - 50 years of the Schöneberg Boys' Choir in 1997
- Open your heart to Christmas time - Merry Christmas with the Schöneberg Boys' Choir
- You have to go away from time to time in 2004
- Berlin boys, they are correct 2004
- Soundtrack: "Forever Immenhof", Bear-Family BCD 16644 AS, ISBN 3-89916-015-0 , with the soundtrack from the first three Immenhof films , partly sung by the choir
- Henze : The young Lord , with Edith Mathis (Luise); Donald Grobe (Wilhelm), Barry McDaniel (Secretary to Sir Edgar), Loren Driscoll (Lord Barrat), Ruth Hesse (Frau von Hufnagel) and Vera Little (Begonia); Orchestra and choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Schöneberg Boys' Choir, conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi (in the world premiere production by Gustav Rudolf Sellner ), DG 449 875-2 (double CD) / Medici Arts 2072398 (DVD) 1967
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.ard.de/kultur/musik/-/id=8372/vv=zoom/pv=zoom/nid=8372/did=281538/mflw9n/index.html ( page no longer available , search in Web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Oliver Ohmann: Boys' Choir: The choir that has simply disappeared . In: BZ , May 6, 2011, accessed: May 25, 2011.
Web links
- Works by and about Schöneberg Boys' Choir in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website of the Schöneberg Boys' Choir ( Memento from October 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )