earth a home for saving googling to tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world ideas to protect the climate and boost green energy solutions by global oil beam by a series of global 3000 on d w and online. i am. a 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 12th mean every saturday it's time for a new name song. this is the official it's

refreshing it focuses me a kind of meditation does the demand it's becoming a fixed part of my week stand because it's so beautiful release and trust is. the new song as a short church service mostly sung at a very high standard for many it's a spiritual as well as a musical experience. when relict the course of that there are wonderful churches in the city and things happen there that some people can't even imagine. there is a bit. that was. there

. are still sedans are spending 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 now and some service is unique. visitors. to cling this one might 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. the.

moon song what's special about noon song and as many things as mainly it's enjoyable and it's free good performers good music was in a beautiful church with live music performed by a good singers and. the ensemble is the brainchild of conductor and clamorous to stefan show. 7 to spending isn't because event has been living as 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 as it's. not who's good 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 they consistently quotha since.

the church hall and so on and planets is very modern. some people think it's beautiful others find it strange opinion and certainly differ but it has its own atmosphere the. 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.

works come from the entire range of sacred christian music over the centuries from gregorian chants to contemporary pieces. for regulated 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 which consume from this is my 5th time here you know i come from munich and try to come whenever i'm in berlin that the curator just 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 funk originally i come from northwestern where very out of it i studied 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 record at that time i visited trinity college cambridge 20 college cambridge. and bought in 23 college cambridge groups i may have a wonderful mixed choir there the mission. which i was able to see at work bite on a limb due for 2. dents on sunday leant on new song is derived from the english even song as we know it from churches and colleges in england definite shock approached our parish council in 2006 or 2007 saying i can imagine holding

a musical midday press service here every saturday one does not wish to toughness i was fascinated by this english even song tradition which attracts lots of visitors 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 invites a wonderful new one gunner's. or with. this 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 atones on plants that draws berlin is every saturday the street market.

it's popular with weekend shoppers. intellectual and spiritual nourishment is just a few steps away. when you know right now. the front of the. room has to. come from my bike from the board from 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 the can they encounter a peaceful atmosphere with the money officials 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 like.

the the. 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 fascinated you could see in her eyes how moved this very small child was with that touch me profoundly like a kid. i can see how people are moved by what happens. in the stuff and.

what people experience as something unusual that when someone 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 they brought their own personal experience into their music which he could go. on and so keep do you think composition gives her texts a particular interpretation or story too you know it's like a sermon that you don't comprehend rationally but emotionally it gets under your skin as it were so. that. was.

the. 1 1 the. interest of all 12 fleiss and the word was made flesh variable in cattle flock to este a very. grimm's remarkable text a very mysterious text as well the word of god and you can read this text in various ways and it's as a mystery as an assurance as a joyful avowals or as a tremendous gesture of reconciliation with all it's of course. easter all of these and so this was a quality music the previous the music like

a sermon this consequence since the whole mystery contained in this sentence doest it. was the. it was. it's a church service i think it was st augustine who said he who sings prays twice adopt it. this book the upside is the book of psalms is at 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 to get discounts on the west of the north what i find inspiring is the way chef and shook has been organizing this almost every saturday for 10 minutes and has now become jaded. as one of the singing 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 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. issues like that troubled him. 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 noon when i can. 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 that. 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 coasts 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 stephane to us that's what makes the project live ready. i had great hopes of noon song 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 or. metaphor what.

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 it 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 3 years white apart from any

religious aspects. 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 can flaunt on. this. is nice and loud i checked was consecrated in 933 built between 131 and 133 and expressionist building it was officially designed by fritz herger actually it was designed by a jewish architect or say clubine who worked with her. clubine also designed the knesset building off to the wall. 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 designer afam frya. shop. and then listen to music. and after the noon song 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 so could you but it was his idea and i was immediately on his yesterday. i think it's important that people seek and find a particular spirituality that they don't get in a normal church service. one and i think

a little get together afterwards rounds it off for doing good for both the body and the soul because i plan to. admit we were very enthusiastic from the start and it was 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 helpless the costs are paid mainly out of the collection. a new song exists you will so not know the new song will only survive as long as there are people who attend the even the donations we receive every saturday don't cover the cost is completely new and songs that means a new song has grown into a wonderful edifice. but unfortunately the foundations are not firm mish ws on and

it's built on a very thin rather brittle pile so. newer. only if people continue to be enthusiastic about noon song and donate can it continue again went this way i'll buy it and so the many visitors who come regularly each week work hard to make it continue as the few dozen vita game con. 'd the.

see here you know what 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 i can do that here so i can current on the scottish here too and that's far from followed it was evident from the beginning of a song 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 does is welcome what is fault is on demand some inside of the new song form is able to unite catholics and protestants without any difficulty

there are no contentious it's news no biblical interpretation now you can rest as a single liturgical form listening to pray saying that characterizes new song the 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. to 15 minutes of chorus singing in the middle of the day has one more and more fun of hands. here faith and

music met in the spiritual experience called noon song. there's a slim but also for the wrong 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 call the speech and the few many people have approached me and said i came today because you were singing a very interesting piece by palestrina for example you know i don't have anything to do with the church i've left the church of god it's what i'll come again next week will. because 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 for all they are. their fair.

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