Three productions are on the program of the municipal cultural office in November as part of THEATERnachSOMMER. There will also be a concert in cooperation with the Golden Swing Big Band. All events take place in the municipal theater. THEATERnachSOMMER is an event organized by the city of Idar-Oberstein. The festival is supported by Kreissparkasse Birkenfeld, OIE AG, Effgen Schleiftechnik, the Bürkle Foundation and the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Tickets are available at www.ticket-regional.de and at the affiliated advance booking offices. Further information can be found at www.kultur.io.
Big band sound and more
On Saturday, November 4, 2023, at 8 pm there will be a concert under the motto "Golden Swing Big Band feat. Julia Oschewsky". Golden Swing can look back on more than forty years of band history. Concerts with stars such as Bill Ramsey, Silvia Droste and Ron Williams have allowed the band to grow beyond itself. The dedicated amateur musicians regularly sacrifice up to four hours of their free time for a single rehearsal. Some come to the rehearsal room in Tiefenstein from far and wide - from Kastellaun, Simmern, Lauterecken, Rehborn, Kusel and Kaiserslautern - to swing and jazz in the "Algenrodter Bigband" with their bandleader Uwe Kirsch. The classic big band sound of the 1930s and 40s is still an integral part of the program, which also includes Latin, funk, rock and pop.
Julia Oschewsky has been touring Europe as the singer of the Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra since 2012. The trained jazz singer from Bingen has a versatile voice and fits perfectly into the repertoire of the Golden Swing Big Band. Visitors to the Idar-Oberstein Jazz Days in May this year were able to see this for themselves. The band and singer provided the musical opening of the three-day jazz festival.
Therapeutic hits
On Saturday, November 11, 2023, at 8 pm, the production "Schlagertherapie" is on the program. In this supergroup, the musicians combine their three great talents - virtuoso instrumental playing, great wit and therapeutic empathy - to indulge in the great heyday of Schlager. Worries about the trials and tribulations of our modern times are left at the checkroom and you are invited to immerse yourself in the cheerful, swaying and always cheerful world of the pop song.
Schlagertherapie is made up of the two brass music luminaries from the legendary group Mnozil Brass, Thomas Gansch and Leonhard Paul, who have been entertaining the music world with their playing and humor for several decades now. Also on stage is Michael Hornek on the piano, a prankster at heart and a talented pianist in his fingers - a characteristic he has regularly demonstrated with Klaus Doldinger's Passport, as well as with Willi Landl and Maria Bill. The quartet is rounded off by Sebastian Fuchsberger, also a former Mnozil Brass trombonist, who has now mainly devoted himself to his tenor, but is also bringing the trombone back on stage for this get-together of the Who's Who.
Physical theater with Tobias Wegener
On Sunday, November 12, 2023, at 7.30 pm, Tobias Wegener presents "Leo - A Show Beyond Gravity". What makes this show so unique is its simplicity: a man, a cap, a suitcase, a piece of chalk. What is sensational, however, is the how of this performance. Tobias Wegner tells the story of a character in a room where the laws of gravity do not apply, but where everyone believes they have dreamed of.
Leo hovers on the wall, turns crazy pirouettes, throws a hat into the air, which plops back onto him as if his body were the center of gravity of the universe. A video projection makes these physical quantum leaps possible. This completely overrides natural perception. Is Leo really walking horizontally or is he only creating this impression by moving his legs and is he actually clinging to the wall? Enormous muscle control is required to create such perfect illusions. The wordless play with the laws of gravity is physical theater at the highest level. No actor without artistic training and many years of training could conjure this up on stage: Tobias Wegner is, of course, a graduate of the renowned École Supérieure des Arts du Cirque (É.S.A.C.) in Brussels.
Symphony concert with clarinet
On Friday, November 17, 2023, at 8 pm, the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie will perform the concert "Romantic Cantilenas" under the direction of Michel Tilkin. The evening's soloist is clarinettist Roeland Hendrikx. At 7.30 pm there will be an introduction by the director of the Rheinische Philharmonie, Günter Müller-Rogalla.
The first clarinettist of the Munich court orchestra, Carl Baermann, inspired the composer Carl Maria von Weber to write a number of works for this virtuoso, of which the two clarinet concertos are among the highlights. The first concerto in particular surprises with its already clearly Romantic tonal language. It is accompanied by Andreas N. Tarkmann's arrangement of an opera aria by Weber, which was written especially for the evening's soloist, Roeland Hendrikx. The evening will be complemented by the overture to Heinrich von Collin's tragedy "Coriolan" by Ludwig van Beethoven from 1807 and Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, which he composed as a young man in the winter of 1814/15.