Sunday, April 6, 2025, 5 p.m., admission from 4 p.m.
Church of St. Michael, Schulgasse 1, 92637 Weiden i.d. OPf
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"Dietrich B." deals with the life and work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in a variety of ways - and on an international level. Through the collaboration of six composers from all over the world and the performance of the resulting work in Australia, America, Great Britain, Poland and Germany, each with local choirs, we hope to spread the ideas of the great theologian, which are more relevant today than ever.
Cooperation with the International Bonhoeffer Society, the University of Leipzig and the music education department of the Gewandhaus in Leipzig enables a diverse range of events as part of the project beyond the musical.
The composers David Hamilton, Matthew Harris, Sandra Milliken, Alec Roth and Manfred Schlenker each composed a motet based on texts by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (including from the prayers for prisoners from 1943). His texts have also been translated into English and Maori, among other languages.
The motets are inserted into a mass sequence corresponding to the parts of the Ordinary that Paul Heller set to music.
The composers
Sandra Milliken (Australia) | Alec Roth (Great Britain) | David Hamilton (New Zealand) | Matthew Harris (USA) | Manfred Schlenker (Germany) | Paul Heller (Germany)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's life and work are honored all over the world. For example, the Evangelical Church in Germany, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Church of England, the Church of Wales and the Episcopal Church commemorate the outstanding theologian every year on April 9th. Many schools, community centers and churches are named after him. Bonhoeffer can be seen on the west wall of Westminster Abbey as one of ten statues as a martyr of the 20th century.
In addition, many composers have used his texts. Particularly noteworthy here is the "Bonhoeffer Motet" by the Berlin composer Manfred Schlenker, a touching setting of the lyrics "Von guten Mächten" that the theologian wrote in his last Christmas letter in 1944.
The radiance of the ideas of faith is what inspired the ensemble nobiles to conceive a project of international format to honor Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The performance will be a Dietrich Bonhoeffer Mass for large mixed choir (Gewandhauschor Leipzig under the direction of Gregor Meyer) and male vocal quintet, created jointly by composers from America, England, Germany, Australia and New Zealand.