2023-06-06 03:30:00
The musical “Lion King” has been performed in Hamburg for 20 years and broke the 15 million visitor mark in March 2023. But you don’t have to travel to Germany to hear the well-known songs of the famous Disney film in first-class and touching quality. It was enough to visit the seminar on Sunday followingnoon, where Alfred Tuzar’s choir “Capella Cantabile” took up position.
But before “The Lion King”, as the followingnoon concert was titled, was played, great spiritual music was on the program. It started with “Hosanna to the Son of David” by Thomas Weelkes. After that, only the voices of the ladies in the choir might be heard during Mozart’s “Ave Maria”, which drew everyone’s attention; because of their vocal performances, but also because they had exchanged their red scarves for new red capes at this concert. “Locus iste” by Anton Bruckner was the four-part motet in which the singers almost unnoticed switched from the quiet piano to the loud forte.
And those who were prepared for a long first part of the concert when Tuzar announced the great sacred music were surprised by a very entertaining section. “Then let’s go there,” the choir director promised his guests before the break.
Children’s choir “Voci Chiare” was delighted to have a guest appearance at the concert
When the “Capellans” started the well-known tune of Elton John’s “Circle of Life”, the listeners immediately had the images of the little lion Simba and his father Mufasa in their heads. If this was not the case, help was provided: well-known scenes from the Disney film were projected onto a screen, all drawn by the young artist Anna Moh.
The guest appearance of the children’s choir “Voci Chiare” showed that Tuzar does not have to worry regarding the next generation of singers. With “The Lion sleeps tonight”, the singers and their choir director Bernadette Eliskases-Tuzar not only spread the mood, the twelve singers easily filled the ballroom of the seminar with their clear voices. The lion might be asleep, but surely nobody in the concert hall was.
This is also the case with the well-known feel-good song “Hakuna matata”, in which the “big” Capellan band members joined in. Of course, the soulful “Can you feel the love tonight” might not be missing at a “Lion King” concert. The second part of the concert ended with what it started with, with the “Circle of Life”.
This man is excellent. I don’t know anyone who achieves so much with so little opportunity and support Conductor Alexander Leader
“You won’t regret it,” Tuzar said as he greeted them. And the audience agreed on this: no one regretted having heard this extraordinary concert. This was reflected in thunderous applause, which wrested an impressive encore from the choir.
Not only was the performance of the young musicians and their conductors exceptional, but also the spontaneous appearance of a special guest: the well-known conductor Alexander Rahbari wanted to say a few words in front of the large audience.
He actually hadn’t planned to go to the concert. But he is very proud that he did it. He told how he first came to Austria as Herbert von Karajan’s assistant and then quite by accident had a performance in Hollabrunn. That’s when he realized “how beautiful it is here – and I lived in Paris at the time,” he recalls at the end of the 1970s.
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Well roared, Capellans!.
The atmosphere in the ballroom of the Hollabrunn Seminar was great when the “Capella Cantabile” choir invited to the concert “The Lion King”. Star conductor Alexander Rahbari was so impressed that he left his seat to express his admiration for choir director Alfred Tuzar.
It was clear to him, “if I ever want to live passionately, then it’s here”. And so he has lived in the district for 30 years now. “I didn’t know what was here. But I soon knew that there was a Tuzar.” And then it became clear what the conductor, who has stood and still stands on the stages of this world, wanted to get at: “This man is excellent. I don’t know anyone who achieves so much with so little opportunity and support.”
It’s sad that someone like Alfred Tuzar gets so little support as an artist. “Give him a chamber orchestra!” Rahbari is clear that the Raschalaer should not only lead a choir, but also bring a chamber orchestra to its peak performance. He also explained why he bumps into the Hollabrunn brook promenade: “There’s a brook or canal everywhere, I’ve been telling my children that for ten years. The stream promenade might one day be called the Tuzar promenade!” Rahbari wishes.
Alfred Tuzar was touched and grateful, the audience seemed to share Rahbari’s opinion, because thunderous applause broke out once more. The musicians understood this request: Vocis and Capellan sang together “The Lion sleeps tonight” and “You sing along!”, Tuzar asked the audience – and they followed this instruction only too gladly.
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