a lutheran church in berlin. once a week music lovers from all of the german capital gather here. the church is full every saturday that's unusual for us. going down to 12 noon every saturday it's time for newman song. it's refreshing it focuses me a kind of meditation what does the demand is becoming a fixed part of my week stand because it's so beautiful girls and for. this.

new song is a short church service mostly sung at a very high standard for many it's a spiritual as well as the musical experience. when relict of course there are wonderful churches in the city and things happen there that some people can't even imagine. going on the. earth and it. was. her. response event to standing as a vocal ensemble made up of professional singers. they perform for free on saturdays because they love the project it's a creative challenge every new song service is unique. it's

going to. be. clicking this one my usually get a score on the weekend before so we have time to prepare a lot of the 8 singers don't meet up until friday evening when they were harassed for 2 or 3 hours and then again from 10 on half cost the next morning. and then it's time. to spare telemundo what's special about noon song as many things as mainly it's enjoyable and it's free and good performers good music was in a beautiful church with live music performed by 8 good singers.

the ensemble is the brainchild of conductor and quiet must as stefan show. 7th especially musical connel sevenpence bellying is a choral ensemble of professional singers so we have 8 singers because the interesting music is often written for 8 voices this week so 8 is a very good number for this church. but of course a professional singers can't commit themselves to sing every saturday so we have a pool of 36 from which we can always draw 8 singers these are things he's done they could tell you the sense. of the church and hall and so on and that says very much and. some people think it's beautiful others find it strange opinion and certainly different but it has its own atmosphere. as you got to. new song is

a form of church service but apart from a short reading there are new spoken words. everything is sung including the prayers including the lord's prayer. i think that's very special because it can get you into a kind of contemplated flow. i think that's how religion was supposed to be. current works come from the entire range of sacred christian music over the centuries from gregorian chants to contemporary pieces. for regular church services and for most amateur singers it would be too difficult the its great music that is often neglected for that reason but here it's being

celebrated. the. it all started with a few music enthusiastic in october 2008 now hundreds of people attend every saturday to enjoy the atmosphere and music of noon so. talk to me then i read about it on the internet i wanted to see it myself and count consume for this is my 5th time here you know i come from eunuch and try to come whenever i'm in berlin. the curator just complain that people aren't coming. home. because i love best that was the best thing to do is hold cultural events like this fantastic. stumbles in the funk originally i come from northwestern for various of my studies

sacred music in conducting and then i was assistant conductor for the berlin philharmonic choir from there i moved back to southern germany and talk conducting of course at that time i visited trinity college cambridge dominates 20 college cambridge. and bought in 20 college came with groups i may have a wonderful mixed choir there mission. which i was able to see at work i'll bite on a limb to have to. denounce once ungainly and new song is derived from the english even song as we know it from churches in colleges in england stefan shook approached our parish council in 2006 or 2007 saying i can imagine holding a musical midday press service here every saturday one the toughest i was fascinated by this english even song tradition which attracts lots of visitors see it does in guns feel in colleges and covered it takes place in many colleges and

cathedrals in england every day music the music of the highest choral standard which sadly we have lost sight of here as the course in buys a life an ongoing areas. are with. her. this is the setting of some 20 by the grace italian renaissance composer to vonnie to palestrina. like the glorious paintings from the sistine chapel palestrina his music brings the biblical texts to life with a wondrous mystical quality. in

addition to the choral music there's another attraction atones on plants that draws billionaires every saturday the street market. it's popular with weekend shoppers. intellectual and spiritual nourishment is just a few steps away. from the field right now on the front of the.

room it's good to. come from my bike i'm going to try my balcony i can see the people coming to new. done because i see them streaming into the church kids hurrying up the stands. and once they're inside they encounter a peaceful atmosphere. among the efficiencies and at the latest there is silence and says if people feel i can become ham i can take half an hour for myself by yes it's on. the the.

you can eliminate all kinds of people come to new song everybody is welcome one new song there was a little girl sitting on her mother's lap she was fastening. did you could see in her eyes how moved this very small child was. touched me profoundly. i can see how people are moved by what happens. in the stuff and. what people experience as something unusual that one song on plots was the norm in christian churches for centuries the idea that a church service should convey transcendence and that singing plays

a crucial role. fewer than was it given his in a lot of the music we sing here was written by composers who had to produce music almost every day for the church because they had a deep grasp of theology and when they brought their own personal experience into their music he could go. on and so keep the do you think composition gives her texts a particular interpretation whole story told it's like a sermon that you don't comprehend rationally but emotionally it gets under your skin as it were so. early it. was. the. 1

the the. interest of all 12 fleisch and the word was made flesh very bone cottle factum este a very. it's remarkable text a very mysterious text as well the word of god or and you can read this text in various ways as a mystery as an assurance as a joyful avowals or as a tremendous gesture of reconciliation with all it's a cause of peace to all these and citizens of quality music the creating the music like a sermon this consequence since the whole mystery contained in this sentence dostoevsky . the. was the.

it was. it's a church service i think it was st augustine who said he who sings prays twice adopt it. the book the upside is the book of psalms is that the heart of noon song. set to music of course. the psalms are very poetic texts written from very personal experience. and these 150 psalms express every facet of life. from great rejoicing and happiness to questions addressed to god and doubt.

hearing each week how these texts sound in various musical settings give structure to one's whole life in the west of the north what i find inspiring is the way she has been organizing this almost every saturday for 10 minutes and has now become jaded. as one of the singers i always feel as though the new song we are currently performing is the important one. always sung with the same seriousness and the same conviction. stephens the conductor brought the new song idea from england. the former lutheran bishop of berlin brandenburg gave it its finally turned to conform.

he had the idea but he was ambivalent about whether it could be done in a lutheran church in berlin. and if it wouldn't compete with the regular sunday service. only if issues like that troubled him. also of course the question would he receive support from the diocese and the parish. but the idea coincided with one of my views that we needed new initiatives to make people aware of how important worship is in christian life. as far as i know he didn't yet have the idea that it should be held every saturday at noon on the campus. when we realized the costs it would involve if we had 8 professional singers here every saturday we were very skeptical and didn't

have much faith in the idea. we thought it would never get off the ground that it could never be financed and. music budget was clearly inadequate if we could give some support but certainly not finance it. but stephanie had the courage to say i'm going to give it a try. the costs for 6 months. new song has been in existence for 10 years now and to organize it for 10 years to struggle to battle with institutions with money so that somehow there's always enough to have this perseverance and energy and to do this flat out stefan does that's what makes the project live.

i had great hopes of noon song that i had ideas about what it should be so from the moment we got started it exceeded my expectations. by there were far more people than i expected. and the noon song experience itself was far more intensely than i had imagined. and people say they experience peace when they sit quietly in this church. and they are changed when they leave. and some say it opens them to god it was. so offensive.

the. 'd 'd as a new song isn't to provide a new song is a private initiative and i think that's fantastic when you have you believe it's hell abraded it's 10 years anniversary and 2018 it's always wonderful 1st my thoughts float and when i come out i feel refreshed really curious white apart from any religious aspects if it's a great opportunity to come to this beautiful church with its glorious windows that were designed by a hymn frya who is also a world famous artist and theater director a constituent on. this. christmas

lights and loud i checked was consecrated in 933 bills between 131 and 133 and expressionist building it was officially designed by fritz herger actually it was designed by a jewish architect or sick levein who worked with her. clubine also designed the knesset building after the war. then in 1943 an incendiary bomb struck the church and destroyed it completely except for the altar when it was rebuilt it was completely redesigned and its current beauty is that of the new design especially the windows by the director and set design afam frya. by.

the shop. and then listen to music. and after the new songs have a meal at the church. visible no soup for those who want it and an opportunity to meet and chat. from the beginning of the catering was provided by a married couple from the parish. you can ensure we know mr so could you but it was his idea and i was immediately off to see asked at the mansion i think it's important that people seek and find a particular spirituality that they don't get in a normal church service and i think a little get together afterwards rounds it off doing good for both the body and the soul. because i plan to. admit we were very enthusiastic from the start and it worked putting it mildly we're very proud of. their strife. there's

a special energy in this church every saturday. the diocese doesn't provide financial support but they are enthusiastic helping us the costs are paid mainly out of the collection. and on some existing words so no the new song will only survive as long as there are people who attend. even the donations we receive every saturday don't cover the cost is completely new songs because that means new song has grown into a wonderful edifice. but unfortunately the foundations are not firm mish ws on an it's built on a very thin rather brittle piles. newer. only if people continue to be enthusiastic about noon song and donate can it continue again and the. so the many visitors who come regularly each week work hard to make it continue as the few dozen survive taking con.

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see here north again of course there are people who come here because they are music lovers but for me it's the e.q. mn is in my experience the christian community. i believe christians have values to share. because well i can do that here so i couldn't that's kind of here that's far from followed it was evident from the beginning of us all and it's especially true in berlin you don't go to every church service has to be ecumenical must send out a message that everybody who is looking for a church service a word from god or this is welcome this fault is on some inside of the new song form is able to unite catholics and protestants without any difficulty there are no contentious issues no biblical interpretation no you caressed there's a single liturgy call form listen pray sing that characterizes new song and of course we can do that well with one another and of course people who don't belong to any church are also welcome and i'm certain that some do come by.

the. it seemed doubtful at 1st that the idea would catch on. but it's 30 minutes of cars singing in the middle of the day has one more and more fun of. here faith and music met in the spiritual experience called noon song. there's a slim but also for a long one because it's a great challenge and a gift to see that what's so important to us because this is the activity to which we devote ourselves every week but also play such an important role in the lives of

the audience least you can go in the street and few many people have approached me and said i came today because you were singing a very interesting piece by palestrina for example is the you know i don't have anything to do with the church i've left the church god but i'll come again next week will. i think the singing was great toward us because when he died and then after a few weeks they said they had found their way back to a new form of spirituality and had begun to make their peace with the church of the physician going to. heaven if their. lord it was. told. to do there's. the. old. eat.

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