26. June 2022
The Linz music school with its 4200 students and their teachers was once again a guest in the Brucknerhaus on Friday to show their variety of pieces of music on stage. Already at 10 a.m. it was the singing and rhythm classes of the elementary school children who filled the hall with “Ritter Rost und Heckse Versteckse”.
In the music pavilion in front of the Brucknerhaus, bands and ensembles could be heard playing “Summer.City.Sound” in the early afternoon. In the Middle Hall, the stringed and wind instruments were presented, a concert that showed soloists and small groups a multi-stringed ability on violin, guitar, harp, dulcimer, zither, double bass, but also recorder, flute, accordion.
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The event, however, was the festival concert as a choir and orchestra concert at 7.30 p.m. in the packed Great Hall with 120 participants on stage. City and country were guests as short welcoming speakers, before the well-known Ö1 presenter Albert Hosp introduced himself and Ingo Ingensand raised his baton for the Copland fanfare.
Big resounding wind instruments and timpani gave the start of the festival for a work that has been circling its world career since 1942. Likewise, Beethoven’s “Fifth” with its theme and four notes has conquered everyone. So did the music school orchestra, which soon culminated in the “Summer.City.Sound” (arranged by Christian Wirth). Bach’s famous “Air” as “Summer of Love” also began in the original with resonant devotion until Rainer Nova intervened as composer for a new sound.
For the guitar concerto by Joaquin Rodrigo (1930), Christian Haimel first played his flawless solo in the original sound and then the turning point, which led to new areas as a composer with tricks by Thomas Mandel (*1965). Again and again the surprise, old masters varied, the composing teachers at the music school showed their skills.
Tribute an „Willi“
As an important coordinator of the director Christian Denkaier, the drummer Engelbert Gangl is still on full duty before retirement for large companies. The main choir of the school, led by Birgit Kubica (also a soloist), was also able to give its all with the songs by Willi Resetarits (“Alanech fia dii”, “Da Joker”, “Feia”). His commitment was planned well before the death on April 24 and has now been honored.
As a special feature, the organ of the Brucknerhaus was used – plus the supervisor and organist Martin Riccabona, he quoted Bach’s Toccata in D minor with radiant dexterity and great tempo – this miracle work BWV 565 also turned into a grandiose transition in Hans Georg Gutternigg’s composing idea. There was great cheering and standing applause at the end.