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a feeling that continues to live in us in on some. good musical martin luther king a dream changes the world has a cost of more than 1000 singers that was the guiding principle of the produces the lutheran foundation create your church. zinah boom to on his famous i have a dream address was 16 minutes long so that i 13 minutes of which was a back number for you in a speech he'd already given in june of 63 to union workers in detroit. one plots

finished 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 luther king's tal martin luther king's dream it wasn't his at all when i got to stay it was god's dream of how we should live together which you can read in the bible with equality and fairness in justice and freedom even with united in love wendy's and tom god has god turned the stream into political reality. and our message the message of my script that is this just a dream is utopia made real concrete to p.

a. a. son that was saying this i for one constructs and 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. dimension comes comes fear and singing also provides an opportunity to communicate a message with passion. quite different from the spoken word got slimed have to hit the mark and i thought it's not an fought. saw.

miriam she felt works for the foundation created church she organizes the mass choir of untrained singers who performed the musical. a lot of the performers didn't have any experience of singing in 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 plank 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 see days then in a small choir and finally with the mass choir. to.

find it i really like the songs and i think the show conveys a very important message before it is this music that amar 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 discrimination occur an every day life. and i do 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 martin what if you put some awful. like most of the 1200 amateur scene is in the production class and his son christoph come from the little valley region. was keep. up. my normal. my son is also performing like that when we practice 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. a sunday and from middle school we've now had many rehearsals with lots of singers but it's still overwhelming to sing with so many people just to give them their few the songs are very very to various themes and genres it's a good mix and the songs are fun to sing with. the choir is the essential element of this musical that was the producer's intention from the start. that oh. they got this impulse and that's 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 asked. professional singers who give the production its shape just took him. was on the. was. that. was. the. was.

the some of the lists have only one week to rehearse. the 2 composers christophe to boy can and honey present at the rehearsals. with. the journalist undress melissa wrote the libretto. i don't. think i'm especially grateful that we could sit down together right from the start sideline with the 1st demos and says i'm god but it happened now most interests as i'm new in an atmosphere of trust and deep friendship we could say well that doesn't sound right link me or what are you trying to say or do this or is that theologically profound or just pious twaddle right as does sean flynn ravish.

christophe to boykin in his studio indecl golf this is where large sections of the musical were created in addition to composing songs to balkan of range the music for the mass choir. we also recorded much of the music here everything except the large sanctions for orchestra and choir. 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 is it since obviously we had to incorporate that everybody identifies it with him with this is. as

a one. night remove the king i think blimey go curse gospel music was essential to martin luther king as an afro-american christian for enforcement or for me to go to merely a jackson was a close family friend and she was one of the most influential gospel singers in the world together with james cleveland in a wreath of franklin and the franklin for them and besides almost every gospel song i can think of reflects what martin luther king himself preached really also the words that jesus spoke for instance if anyone strikes you on the right cheek turn the other also. of the vendor human after. the message of don't resort to violence. if god exists let him act with you then the scope of my.

studio is an elm small new hamburg. kristoff stack of them by ship christophe strength is in string arrangements on the german base but he does that really well with soul music and i'm more attuned to the keyboard and the choruses minds on kosova. unusual for such a large production the composers themselves perform. and what 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. and i think what i want to read that i wrote the music together with honey oh baby i

think i can control it best if i'm out there on stage. and my love i got a road. and. yeah. this i think it's one of the most powerful songs because the choir really moves with it and sings with real passion i left. it. on this song has wonderful energy and that's what i love about gospel music that's in gospel it's. there's music in 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 the memories of his fellow activists from 50 guy lights so now because we highlight 4 or 5 important events in his life freely interpret them to make the point that a dry. am is not the same thing as an illusion and lose your. the dutch singing artist geno emmis place the role of martin luther king. and he simply martin luther king that song and then you realize that he's human like the rest of us i meant he has his lumps and bumps and his faults and we also show those in the musical and stuck. in. the german opera and musical director andreea scare can has directed the production

. we. do. in the surprise we see in our musical choral musical is the person who also has doubts. and is also a bit ego to stick up. and. he subordinates 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. that are not in the corrector for instance who has to give up her great dream of an operatic career somebody through the course and.

i think also 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. and follow surveyor. the role of correction scott king is played by the touch 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. 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 home that his family received death threats almost every day and still he carried on. on the one hand i know that's reckless on the other hand 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 challenging myself. in this regard i have to say martin luther king has become

a role model for me increasingly so during this period of. 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 dialed when you see what reprisals the man 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 parallels and that makes me share his pain a bit especially at the present time in 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 to finish on. was. to.

the erode the pops 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 and this led to the famous montgomery bus boycott a seminal event in the civil rights movement. for brit. is just and she's the kind of role model that i want to see everywhere. from the fall including in my own life if me a venture. and in the hour 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 was. the.

week. that guy's got to sort of meet the spirit of god should mold me from the inside with my characteristics and my past into something wonderful for others and yeah that was what happened to martin luther king his experience of being called was very prosaic and he looked through the window of a bus shelter and saw how black people were being made to stand at the back while the seats up front were reserved for white folks is that as a bit of that that annoyed him and he asked himself what will happen if we don't take the bus and as 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 warmer now over. in september $964.00 martin luther king came to the divided city of girliness he also visited the communist east. good evening your passport is easy your sheet my now look here's my name and here it says america i'm an american and the next 2 americans write express american express their. ex writes. or show care thank you enjoy your visit i can. as i guess reader i have to say 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

having kids around my legs and it's incredibles and elf involved and often 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 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 because the seed 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 typically. the musical blends reality and fiction some

historical figures like malcolm x. and 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 sing with him 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. of life.

of the day that our idea of casting a woman in the role of the holy spirit wasn't a nod to feminism when it's rooted in the bible that god says in the old testament as a mother comforts her child so will i comfort you it was that the lutheran foundation created church has its headquarters in witan a university town in western germany the foundations main aim is to promote singing with small projects and in large 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 25000 something you'll be performing at 11 towns and 2020 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 volunteering to sing of people who've 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 premie as was staged on 2 separate evenings with $1200.00 singers at each performance i. think the premier 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.

i. kind of marvelous i thought it was great singing with and for so many people it was a great atmosphere with you know i thought of it as yeah it was great fun of the show was sometimes very moving sometimes jazz it it has great appeal and everything was great talking. last. thanksgiving.

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