in the light of climate change. africa. what's in store. for the future. can't forget megacities. insight. counter. 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. going down to 12 noon every saturday it's time for new song. this is the

official it's refreshing it focuses a kind of meditation or does the demand it's becoming a fixed part of my week because it's so beautiful release and for. this. new song as a short church service mostly sung at a very high standard for many it's a spiritual as well as the musical experience. when malak course there are wonderful churches in the city and things happen there that some people can't even imagine. i am. certain. that was the british the. good and. the.

resources into 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 now and some say this is unique. to cling this 1 may he should 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 kos the next morning. and then it's time that. the. the. the.

what's special about noon song as many things as mainly it's enjoyable and it's free good performers good music it was in a beautiful church with live music performed by a good singers sing in. the ensemble is the brainchild of conductor and quiet stephan show. 7 to spend even simple concept his belly 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 consistently. since. the

church of horn song and plots is very modern. some people think it's beautiful others find it strange opinion and certainly different but it has its own atmosphere. as 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 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. the

current 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 amateurs seeing as it would be too difficult the it's 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 an inside. 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 so i come from eunuch and try to come whenever i'm in berlin . be cured 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 where very i would have been in my study 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 community college cambridge. and bought in 23 college cambridge scripts i may have a wonderful mixed choir there mission. which i was able to see at work bite on a limb due for 2. dents on is ungodly and noone song is derived from the english even song as we know it from churches in colleges in england deaf and 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 so 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 and by the light of a longer governors. are well. 'd this is the setting of some 20 by the grace italian renaissance composer to fanny to palestrina. like the glorious paintings in the sistine chapel palestrina as

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. and you know right now on the front of the. room is to. come from my bike i'm going to try my balcony i can see the people coming to new sounds that get this i see them streaming into the church kids hurrying up the stands. and once they're inside 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 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 happened. in the stuff and.

what people experience as something unusual that haunts on 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 it davie 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 they had a deep grasp of theology. and they brought their own personal experience into their music. and so keep that do you think composition gives her some particular interpretation or story to it's like a sermon that you don't comprehend rationally but emotionally it gets under your skin as it were. only it. was.

the. the. the. interests of all 12 fleiss and the word was made flesh have been coddled factum este a very. groomes remarkable text a very mysterious text as well the word of god and then come to 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 of course a peace to all these citizens of quality music the pray to 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. just booked 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. you 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 years and has not become jaded. as one of the saying is 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. 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 when i can. 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. that budget was clearly inadequate if we could give some support but certainly not finance it. but stephanie should have the courage to say i'm going to give it a try. the costs for a 6 month. 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 'd. 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. there were far more people than i expected. and the noon song experience itself was far more intense than i had imagined. 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. so that's if your quote.

the. 'd 'd as a new song isn't to provide a new song as a private initiative and i think that's fantastic when you have if you believe it's hell abraded it's 10 years anniversary in 2018 it's always wonderful 1st my thoughts float and when i come out i feel refreshed 3 years might 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 a constituent on. this. christmas lights and when 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 sick levein who worked with her. and club 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 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 most are so good to you both and it was his idea and i was immediately who's yesterday at the mention 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 consider. 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 helping us the costs are paid mainly out of the collection. the 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 listening songs that means a new song has grown into a wonderful edifice. but unfortunately the foundations are not firm 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 can it continue again went this way. so the many visitors who come regularly each week work hard to make it continue as the future doesn't slide again can. the.

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 show because i can do that here so i concur and that's kind of. that's far from followed it was evident from the beginning of itself and it's especially true in berlin 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 what is fault is on 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 liturgy form listening to pray saying 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 also welcomes and i'm certain that some do come by. it seemed doubtful at 1st that the idea would catch on. with just 15 minutes of cars singing in the middle of the day has been more and more fun of us. here faith

and music met in the spiritual experience called noon song. as a slim 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 which we devote ourselves every week of but often also play such an important role in the lives of the audience least you can call the speed 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 no 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. clinic's 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 begin physician for the air. and if

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