may the force be with you. 60 minutes. i'm not laughing at the germans well i guess somebody else but myself laughing with the captain thinks deep into the german culture he knew to take his grandmother day out to you it's all that. enough time rachel join me for me to get on the gulf coast. lutheran church in berlin. once a week music lovers from all over the german capital gather here. the

church is full every saturday that's unusual for us. and on the 12 noon every saturday it's time for new song. this is the official it's refreshing it focuses me a kind of meditation does but it's becoming a fixed part of my week because it's so beautiful or less and trust this. new song as a short church service must be sung at a very high standard for many it's a spiritual as well as musical experience. when relict of course there are wonderful churches in the city and things happen there that some people can't even imagine. you are in the. earth there's.

the nation the courage at. the. citizens of spending is 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 sound service is unique. visitors. to clean this one my usually get a score on the weekend before so we have time to prepare a lot of the 8 singers didn'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 that is a storm. the. the

. the. moon song what's special about noon song and as many things as mainly it's enjoyable and it's free command good performers good music was in a beautiful church with live music performed by 8 good singers in. the ensemble is the brainchild of conductor and clam us to stephan show. 7th especially musical conall so then to spelling is a choral ensemble of professional singers 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. the.

whole of the song and since very modern. some people think it's beautiful others find it strange opinion and certainly different but it has its own atmosphere the. new song is a form of checks or service but apart from a short reading there are no spoken words. everything is sung including the press 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. carl

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 new inside talk to me then i read about it on the internet i wanted to see it myself and count has been some for this

is my 5th time here you know i come from munich and try to come whenever i'm in berlin you hear the cure the churches complain that people aren't coming. down. the aisle or best of us the best thing to do is hold cultural events like this fantastic. stuff in the fun originally i come from northwestern for various when i studied sacred music in conducting then i was assistant conductor for the berlin philharmonic choir from there i moved back to southern germany and talk conducting for corn at that time i visited trinity college cambridge 20 college cambridge. and bought in 23 college cambridge scripts i may have a wonderful mixed choir their mission. which i was able to see at work i'll bite on a limb due for the. demands on its ungainly and new song is derived from the

english even song as we know it from churches and 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 100 percent or so 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 was the music of the highest choral standard which sadly we have lost sight of here as the course in buys a lot of fun i wonder whether this.

this is the setting of some 20 by the grace italian renaissance composer too funny to palestrina. like the glorious paintings in 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 at own sun and plants that draws wilderness every saturday the street market. it's popular with weekend shoppers. intellectual and spiritual nourishment is just a few steps away. i mean you know right now on the front of the. room is doing the dishes. come from my bike indigo tribe my balcony i can see the people coming to new. and get as i see them streaming into the church kids hurrying up the stands. and once they're inside we can they encounter a peaceful atmosphere with. the money officials and at the latest there is

silence and it is if people feel i can become ham i can take half an hour from myself by yes it's like. 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 fascinated you could see in her eyes how moved this very small child was with that touch me profoundly life. i can

see how people are moved by what happens. in the stuff on. what people experience as something unusual that when someone plots was the norm in christian churches was centuries the idea that a church service should convey transcendence and that singing plays a crucial role. fewer than was a t.v. 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 they brought their own personal experience into their music he could go. on and so keep do you think composition gives her a particular interpretation story to me it's like

a sermon that you don't comprehend rationally but emotionally it gets under your skin as it were so. deep that. was. the. the. the the. interests of all 12 fleisch and the word was made flesh very bone kartel fact i'm este a very. grooms remarkable text a very mysterious text just for the word of god and if you can read this text in various ways it's as a mystery as an assurance as a joyful avowals or as

a tremendous gesture of reconciliation with all its course of peace to all these and so those of the quality music the predict the music like a sermon that's consecrate since the whole mystery contained in this sentence da state. was. was. it's a church service i think it was st augustine who said he who sings prays twice

adopt it. the. 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. when. 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 definitely 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. stephan the conductor brought the noon song idea from england. the former lutheran bishop of berlin brandenburg gave it its final liturgical form . 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. and. issues like that troubled him. there's also of course the question of what he received 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 news and mine are countless. but when we realized the cost 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 and. 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 ready. i had great hopes of noon song it's i had ideas about what it should be so from the moment we got started it exceeded my expectations. there were far more people than i expected. and the noon song experience itself was far more intense 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

house. the. 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 in 2018 it's always wonderful at 1st my

thoughts float and when i come out i feel refreshed really curious and 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 adam frya who is also a world famous artist and theater director who can flaunt on a serious. interest most of luddite i checked was consecrated in 1983 bills between 19311983 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 1903 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 designer afam frya. by. the shop. and then listen to music. and after the new songs have a meal at the church. this is a bowl of 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 stoke your boy and it was his idea and i was immediately whose yesterday 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 can see. it 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 helpis the costs are paid mainly out of the collection. a new song exists you know the new song will only survive as long as there are people who attend soaps the spend the even the donations we receive every saturday don't cover the cost is completely new songs because that

means a new song has grown into a wonderful edifice. but unfortunately the foundations are not firmly miche ws on and it's built on a very thin rather brittle piles. newer. only if people continue to be enthusiastic about noon song and donate to continue looking at this very hour by so the many visitors who come regularly each week work hard to make it continue is the fuel justified taking con. the.

see here in order to do 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 that i believe christians have values to share. because well i can do that here so i concur in this county here too and that's far from followed it was evident from the beginning of itself 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 as fort 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 as a single liturgical form listening to pray sing but characterizes new song that 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 here to buy.

it seemed doubtful at 1st that the idea would catch on. to 30 minutes of cars singing in the middle of the day has one more and more fun to. hear faith and music merge in the spiritual experience called noon song. but also for the whole 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 often 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 are singing a very interesting piece by palestrina for example is the no i don't have anything to do with the church i've left the church god has not come again next week will. yes 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 to

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