As announced in
my Hosanna blog, here comes the concert. Two performances were scheduled at the Minster Square for Friday, September
16, at 8 and 9 PM.
Red Baron arrived early and noticed some red lights at the
Renaissance Portal of the Minster church. The musicians found refuge in this entrance hall, but the
stage was still empty.
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The Renaissance Portal: an impressive scenery
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Music college professor
Bernhard Wulff
who composed the bell ringing as a collage from tones of the Hosanna to the
chimes of Mozart's Magic Flute, instructed 50 bell ringers, including 20
professionals, to sound cowbells, singing bowls, gongs, glockenspiels,
cymbals, elephant bells, tam-tams, tubular and plate bells. All their sounds
were to unite on Minster Square with the ringing of the Hosanna, cast in 1258,
for a half-hour bell concert.
The guest of honor and centerpiece of this "intercultural bell festival"
was the more than three-ton Hosanna in the cathedral's belfry with its
dark-sounding E-flat. "It speaks to us with a special sound, a touch of
melancholy," Professor Wulff said.
Listen yourself (©Badische Zeitung).
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