Magic Flutes - choir of gay men
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| Seat: | Cologne , Germany |
| Founding: | 1994 |
| Genus: | Male choir |
| Head : | Carsten Wüster |
| Voices : | 38 singers (TTBB) |
| Website : | www.zauberfloeten.de |
The Magic Flutes - Chorus of Gay Men V. founded on May 18, 1994 as a gay male choir . It has been entered in the register of associations since 2000 and has been recognized as a non-profit association since 2001 .
history
The purpose of the association is to promote cultural purposes by cultivating, promoting and spreading choral singing and maintaining musical cultural goals to strengthen the community in the population at home and abroad. For this purpose, the members make music together, their public concerts and contacts with other choirs, through which prejudices against gays and lesbians in society are broken down.
Carsten Wüster has been the musical and artistic director since April 1st, 2008.
The Magic Flutes entertain with ironic, funny, contemplative and romantic stage programs that combine singing, choreography , their own texts and presentations. The repertoire includes musical numbers and evergreens, as well as hits and pop in polyphonic arrangements, a cappella or with piano accompaniment.
They regularly appear with their own programs in Cologne, to guest performances and festival participation throughout Germany and in other European countries. Important stations outside Cologne were Trier ( cloth factory , 1995), Bonn ( bread factory , 1998), Arnhem ( Musis Sacrum , 1999), Berlin ( Kongresshalle , 2001), Hamburg ( Markthalle and Ohnsorg-Theater , regularly since 2003), Zurich ( Tonhalle , 2003), Frankfurt (Bürgerhaus Bornheim, 2003 and 2012), Paris (Théâtre Le Trianon, 2005), London ( Royal Festival Hall , 2009), Bern ( Theater am Käfigturm , 2011), Dublin (The Helix, 2014), Munich ( Gasteig , 2018).
You were the guest choir in the piece Das Werk / Im Bus / Ein Sturz by Elfriede Jelinek in the production by Karin Beier at the Schauspiel Köln , which was named “Production of the Year” by the magazine Theater heute . In addition to over 35 performances in the Cologne Schauspielhaus, the production was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen and a guest performance at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg.
In April 2015, a jury of experts chose the Magic Flutes as one of ten finalists from among 317 applicant choirs in the WDR choir competition "Singen macht Glück".
social commitment
The Magic Flute took part in the Cologne “Night of Lights” on World AIDS Day . The Magic Flutes took on the partnership for the memorial to commemorate the lesbian and gay victims of National Socialism on the banks of the Rhine in Cologne. The Magic Flutes are also active in Cologne's “voice fusion” (the amalgamation of the city's nine lesbian, gay-lesbian and gay choirs) and were partners of the choir festival as part of the Gay Games Cologne.
Memberships
- District Choir Association Cologne V.
- Choir Association NRW e. V.
- German Choir Association V.
- Legato e. V.
- Schwules Netzwerk NRW e. V.
Programs
- 2018 "Rheinweh"
- 2014 "Home Sweet Home"
- 2011 "Jewelery - refurbished and revised"
- 2010 guest at "Das Werk / Im Bus / Ein Sturz"
- 2009 "Boeuf Katastroff"
- 2007 "Starshine"
- 2004 "Gold"
- 2003 "Welcome to Neurosia"
- 2001 "Out in the country"
- 1998 "Men in the Mirror"
- 1996 "the first time"
See also
Web links
- www.zauberfloeten.de
- www.stimmfusion.de
- Key series: protest choirs . Portrait on WDR radio, September 13, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Meiger, Marianne Rogler, Melanie Grande (eds.): The other city book. Lesbians and gays in Cologne. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1996 ISBN 3-462-02579-1 , p. 362
- ↑ Various Voices. London sings out! (PDF) festival brochure; Retrieved April 1, 2014
- ↑ Michael Zirnstein: They sing for their lives In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 9, 2018. [1] , accessed on November 29, 2018
- ↑ Critics' survey : Evaluation: No fall ... Kultiversum; Retrieved August 25, 2011
- ↑ Martina Windrath: WDR is looking for the most popular amateur choir In: Kölnische Rundschau . As of April 12, 2015; accessed on April 13, 2015
- ↑ Julia Spyker: Singing makes you happy - a portrait of the finalists . ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Radio report in the WDR3 broadcast TonArt, April 13, 2015; accessed on April 13, 2015.
- ↑ Schütte, Frank: Documentation of the Night of Lights from 1997-2005 (PDF), accessed on April 1, 2014
- ^ VIII. Gay Games Cologne 2010 StadtSportBund Köln, as of July 15, 2010; Retrieved April 1, 2014
