60 years Leipziger Synagogalchor

November 12, 2022. By no means did we feel like we were 60 at the celebratory concert in the Gewandhaus, but inspired and exhilarated and proud of the 500 visitors who celebrated our anniversary with us, even without the local press noticing it beforehand.

 

With the first part of the concert we said goodbye to Ludwig Böhme, with the second part we welcomed Philipp Goldmann, and you could see, feel and hear how well we harmonize with both of them and how much we, despite all the sadness of saying goodbye to Ludwig, are looking forward to the future with Philipp.

 

 

It was a pleasure for us to sing with our "All Stars", with Anja Pöche (soprano), Susanne Langner (alto), Falk Hoffmann (tenor) and cantor Assaf Levitin (bass) as well as Ulrich Vogel on organ and grand piano, thank you very much to you for many years and many concerts that we have played together and for your friendship! A big thank you also to the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra Leipzig, which played our repertoire for the first time, so wonderfully, together with the concertmaster Gunnar Harms with great virtuosity on the violin.

 

 

We thank the Mayor of Culture Dr. Skadi Jennicke for her words in the concert and at the small reception afterwards.

 

We thank KS Helmut Klotz for the 40 years he directed our choir.

 

We would like to thank the Holger Koppe Foundation and our sponsoring members for the financial support of our festival concert. We would like to thank the Gewandhaus as host and organizer.

 

 

We would like to thank the Jüdische Allgemeine, MDR Klassik, MDR Kultur and the MDR Sachsenspiegel for the media reports in advance and Werner Kopfmüller for the concert report in the Leipziger Volkszeitung.

 

Here's to the next 60 with you, our audience, and with the beautiful Jewish music!