BROADENING THE SCOPE OF CHORAL MUSIC. As its rubric indicates, the Rundfunkchor’s unusual series of projects, launched five years ago, is aimed at widening the radius of its repertoire to appeal to a non-traditional public. It also seeks to intensify the impact of choral activities from within. To do so, it collaborates with other artistic disciplines, and it commissions and performs new works that seek new forms for choral music – works that take into account the expectations of a non-classical musical audience and try out new formats of interaction between choral professionals and choral amateurs.
BROADENING takes place on many different levels. There are the large-scale scenic presentations that offer a broad public the access to unusual but essential choral literature by enhancing the works’ content and musical beauties through the addition of an attractive visual component. There are the Sing-Along Concerts which stimulate and support the pleasure of singing oneself. Finally, in the series KlangKulturen, BROADENING expands our horizon from classical experiences to include other ethnic and non-European traditions of thought and music, while building bridges between the most diverse societies in our city and our world.
In the 2009/10 season, the Rundfunkchor will take a staged version of Gustav Holst’s Savitri to the Berghain Techno-Club, reaching an audience that one otherwise doesn’t find at choral concerts.
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