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hit the right note: The music in the monastery Saarn goes into its 25th Years

What to do with a monastery, nuns pray in the long no more and work? Prior to this question were the friends of the 1214 and 1808 founded dissolved Cistercian monastery in Saarn, was restored as the old monastery 25 years ago with money from city, state and diocese. "We wanted to open the monastery and its church and outside the liturgy of worship for as many citizens," recalls former Cultural Affairs Hans-Theo Horn, To date, he is also on the Executive Committee of the monastery Saarner friends.

Together with his late friend Leo Werry he came in 1986 with the idea to bring music to the monastery. "The first concert by a Cologne Ensemble, which played medieval music, was attended not just good," Horn tells the story of a difficult beginning. But the monastery's friend and his colleagues remained true to its motto: "Not the beginning, but the perseverance is rewarded." And they were rewarded.

The Müülheimer of the Savings Bank and the Leonard Foundation-sponsored Music in the monastery Saarn, which now starts with a three-King concert in her jubilee year has became an audience magnet that not only music lovers from all over the country, but also well-known musicians from Germany and abroad, such as the Vienna cathedral organist Peter Planyavsky, his Paris Kollgen Philippe Lefebvre from Nottre lady or the Trinity choir Cambridge tighten.

church musician Werner Schepp, who heads the program of the music series for 20 years as artistic director, estimates the number of concert-goers at the monastery at about 3000 per year. They hear in the monastery and its church Saarn St. Mary's Assumption is not only chamber choir and organ concerts, but also children's musicals. But the Epiphany concert with the ensemble Harmonie Universelle and the mezzo-soprano Cornelia Mary Orenstein inspired 200 people to chamber music by Telemann, Buxtehude and Hammerschmidt. "We have become well established, because we are spiritual impetus and a binding framework that match the beautiful atmosphere of the monastery, the music friends as musicians is equally enjoyed," says Werner Schepp, the success story of music in the monastery Saarn.

For more information, visit: http://www.musik-im-kloster-saarn.de/

This text was published on 14 January 2010 at the Ruhr word