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good news you call martin luther king a dream changes the world has a cost of more than 1000 syrians that was the guiding principle of the produces the lutheran foundation created church. zinah bill him to his famous i have a dream address was 16 minutes long so that i 13 minutes of which was a back number for you as a speech he'd already given in june of 63 to union workers in detroit. one plus for me and then suddenly he put aside his text and improvised for 3 minutes but i mean that was the speech of a lifetime is inspired to send in spirit to momenta. martin
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luther king's tal martin luther king's dream it wasn't his at all when i got to it was god's dream of how we should live together and be with you can read in the bible with equality and fairness in justice and freedom of movement and united in love wendy's and tom got this god turned the stream into political reality added to it on our message the message of my script that is this just a dream is utopia made real concrete to. come. a. a.
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good song that was saying this i for one constructive singing is a very strong instrument in the life of faith as well as in motivating people singing releases endorphins which encourage a sense of community it's very healthy. to mention consequence few and singing also provides an opportunity to communicate a message with passion. quite different from the spoken word got slimed have to know my grandson as i tell him what. soledad. miriam she felt works for the foundation creative church she organizes the mass choir of untrained singers who perform the musical. a lot of the performers didn't have any experience of singing in
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a choir we noticed that in their applications they said i really need to practice we told them you're still welcome to come along and we'll practice together or i should. get mental penc ok and her daughter anna a 2 of these singers who weren't able to rehearse with the choir and practiced at home by themselves for months using specially produced the days then in a small choir and finally with the mass choir. when it would be i really like the songs and i think the show conveys a very important message before this music had a mark before we did the musical i'd heard of martin luther king and of what he did but it didn't really affect my life however now i notice how exclusion and
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discrimination occur an every day life. i doubt in my job i work with marginal groups and i see it every day is that texas is sports but it's possible to change things if you seize the opportunity and motivate other people to work with you larger motive you have put some awful. like most of the 1200 amateur singers in the production class and his son christoph come from the rule of valley rage and. was a a. oh. my gosh. my son is also performing like that when we practiced together he would sing the 2nd part so that we could get used to choral singing on the road we also sang along with the sea day when i go out and i was on. it'll be fun as for me in the pool we've now had many rehearsals with lots of
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singers but it's still overwhelming to sing with so many people to stick with and if you the songs are very very to various themes and genres i think it's a good mix and the songs are fun dissing thing you know. the choir is the essential element of this musical that was the producer's intention from the start. it oh. i think up to impose on this the most impressive aspect is this enormous choir which will also be the case on tour we always have our sights set on a large choir and in this production the choir has a lot to sing and communicate also content. but of course we also have stars in the cast offs professional singers who give the production its shape and he just took
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the journalist undressed melissa wrote the libretto. i don't. think i'm especially grateful that we could sit down together right from the start and with the 1st demos and says i'm god but it up the most hundreds of them is that in an atmosphere of trust and deep friendship we could say well that doesn't sound right lee or what are you trying to say or is or is that theologically profound or just pious twaddle or is does sean flynn rubbish. christophe to boykin in his studio indecl golf this is where large sections of the musical were created in addition to composing songs to booking a range the music for the mass choir.
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that's a thing where we also recorded much of the music here everything except the large sanctions for orchestra and quiet. and certain of course we also use songs from the time of martin luther king there are a few spirituals that icky we shall overcome for instance obviously we had to incorporate that everybody identifies it with him. this is. as a one. night hooper can i think live bigger curve gospel music was essential to martin luther king as an afro-american christian hope for and for in a different me to go to merely a jackson was
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a close family friend and she was one of the most influential gospel singers in the world together with james cleveland in a retha franklin and the front of them and besides almost every gospel song i can think of reflects what martin luther king himself preached and really also the words that jesus spoke for instance if anyone strikes you on the right cheek turn the other also you know before the vendor he went after. the message of don't resort to violence. if god exists let him act but then the thought of my. studio is an elm song new hamburg. kristoff staircase and bashed christoph strength is in string arrangements from
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a german bass but he does that really well with soul music i'm more attuned to the keyboard and the choruses minds on kosova. unusual for such a large production the composers themselves perform. and you're working with you know we wanted to playing we would have felt miserable sitting on some chair and listening to how our music was being played through that's nice but it's even nicer to play it. with. the one. i want to read that i read the music together with it's a baby i think i can control it best if i'm out there on stage. and my love i got a road. yeah. i think it's one of the
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most powerful songs because the choir really moves with it and sings with real passion i left. i think about this song has wonderful energy and that's what i love about gospel music in gospel it's. just music of martin luther king musical the dream changes the world starts with the assassination of martin luther king on april the 4th 1968 and tells the story of his life in flashbacks at the memories of his fellow activists 50 guy lives there because we highlight 4 or 5 important events in his life freely interpret in them to make the point that a dream is not the same thing as an illusion and it's kind of in 00. the dutch
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singing artist gino m. this plays the role of martin luther king. and he simply martin luther king that's all and then you realize that he's human like the rest of us i'm and he has these lumps and bumps and his faults and we also show those in the musical stuck. was. the german opera and musical director andreas garrick and has directed the production. in a surprise we see in a musical choral musical is the person who also has doubts. and is also a bit ego testicle. and. he subordinates
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the dreams and needs of the people around him to his own great visions. he follows his own path and without wavering even if it means sacrificing others on the way. he's in the. dock but i'm not in the correct earth for instance who has to give up her great dream of an operatic career some bias through the course and. was. and of course it's an open question whether she would ever have become a great opera singer but martin luther king can be grateful that she renounced her career to become a small town pastor's wife plunged up past 2 and fall surviving. the
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role of correction scott king is played by the dutch actress and singer patti fan defender. if it had been me i would probably have decided in favor of a singing career and not have married the baptist pastor better known as martin luther king. some candles martin luther king but that's me i didn't grow up as an afro-american woman in the sixty's. well it's easy enough to say i would have done things differently maybe she didn't have the opportunity perhaps it was too dangerous to live certain dreams. martin luther king's political activism was certainly dangerous to his marriage and his family. for i was surprised by martin luther king's recklessness but at the age of 39 he got used to the idea of bomb attacks on his
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home that his family received death threats almost every day and still he carried on. on the one hand that's reckless on the other hand a vital passion. it really shocked me but it also challenged me not to make weak fatalistic decisions in my faith. he could have made a bad decision but instead he said i'm going to invest a lot in one thing and i want to be more courageous i want to be clear i have challenge myself. in this regard i have to say martin luther king has become a role model for me increasingly so during this period. he was 39 when he was assassinated i started writing the script when i was 38 that is to say before the age at which he die and when you see what reprisals the man
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faced he certainly suffered from and he struggled mightily for what he believed he had a family i also have a family he suffered a lot also made his family suffer a lot. but i see the parallel and that makes me share his pain a bit especially at the present time when the world seems to be in such turmoil and the issue is current again when. i think one feels his pain. when i had interim it from the shop. was santa. rosa parks is a hero alongside dr king in the musical and in reality she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person this led to the famous montgomery bus boycott a seminal event in the civil rights movement. for brit.
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is that she's the kind of role model that i want to see everywhere fun for enough including in my own life if me a venture. in the hour and i wake up in the morning and think. how would rose go out into this world. would she get upset about every trivial thing. over or would she stay focused and doe her mission in life. oh. pete. pete. was.
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there guy's got to so i made the spirit of god should mold me from the inside with my characteristics and my past into something wonderful for others and that was what happened to martin luther king 5 his experience of being called was very prosaic he looked through the window of a bus shelter and saw how black people were being made to stand at the back door while the seats up front were reserved for white folks is that as of yet is it that annoyed him and he asked himself what will happen if we don't take the bus and it was one of the 1st trade boycotts in the western world that he read that is our common humanity which makes us sensitive to the sufferings of one another. in september $964.00 martin luther king came to the divided city of us he also visited the communist east. good evening your passport is
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easy your sheet my. look here's my name and here it says america i'm an american and next to americans express american express their. x. it's. for show care thank you enjoy your visit i got. does i get you know i have to say that that's a moment of magic isn't it a poor little border guard makes a mistake which enables an american without a passport to go to the church on alexander blogs or thousands are waiting for him i mean my legs and it's incredibles and elf involved and off and so on. the church of the virgin in what was then the communist east thousands of east berlin is waiting for him it wasn't an official visit he had received an informal invitation from the protestant church. the crowd was so
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huge that a 2nd event was held at another church in downtown belin. i've met a number of dissidents and christians who took part in the protests of 989 that led to the fall of the berlin wall and they told me. the seat of our activism our perseverance our courage to stick it out in communist east germany and to hope and believe in that we received from king on september the 13th 1964 king i'm tied to that time i feel unsafe to kill a. good musical blends reality and fiction some historical figures like malcolm x. i introduced anachronistically and the holy spirit played by a woman is a bit of poetic license. catechized than the holy spirit is martin luther king's inspiration and to saying
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that of course she's closely connected to his faith and enables him in spite of the aggression he encounters to respond with love and with nonviolence. he. was. of the day that our idea of casting a woman in the role of the holy spirit wasn't a nod to feminism of a boy before that it's rooted in the bible god says in the old testament as a mother comforts her child so will i comfort you was that the lutheran foundation created church has its headquarters in witan a university town in western germany the foundation's main aim is to promote
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singing with small projects and launch stage productions the choral musical martin luther king has been performed 3 times this year it's. double premiere was staged in february and at the end of june it was performed at the german evangelical churches annual convention. a nationwide tour is planned for next year. the 20th 5000 something you'll be performing in 11 towns and 20 twentieth's with more than 10000 singers taking part of what we continue to look for new singers like the 1st projects have been well received they're already fully booked the big time people like to take part and we see new people responding to the volunteering to sing for people who have never sung in a choir before and maybe have never had anything to do with the church. because of the large number of participants to premiers was staged on 2 separate evenings with
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$1200.00 singles at each performance i. think the premiers were a triumph. at the evangelical churches annual convention the musical was also well received here in dortmund 2000 singers took passage thomas clouse and his son christophe among them. i was. kind of marvelous i thought it was great singing with and for so many people it was a great atmosphere you know i thought of it as yeah it was great fun of the show was sometimes very moving sometimes jazzing it it has great appeal and everything
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