Deutsches Chorfest 2025 Nürnberg - Meiner Augen Lust und Sonne

Pop-Up
Direction: Anne Kohler

Sing&Sign
Direction: Susanne Haupt

Songs by Dua Lipa, Dodie and others as well as works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Heinrich Schütz

People with physical, mental and emotional disabilities are often disabled in our society. The program of the two choirs Sing&Sign and Pop-Up explores the question of how people face various obstacles and crises and experience community, strength and happiness. Sing&Sign is an inclusive ensemble that makes vocal works by Bach and Schütz in particular accessible to hearing-impaired people and performs with sign language and deaf performance. Pop-Up brings a program with strong songs such as "Secret for the Mad" by Dodie and "Dance the Night Away" by Dua Lipa to the stage, giving a voice to young and no longer young people with mental disabilities. Together, the two ensembles explore musically - in some pieces also together with the audience - who or what helps people through the dark hours of life.

After the concert, there will be an opportunity to talk to the artists about inclusive performance in German spoken and sign language (approx. 19:30-20:00).

Program:

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Compel the strings
(Sing&Sign, pop-up and audience)

Heinrich Schütz (1585 - 1672): Aus der Tiefe (Psalm 130 from: Psalms of David); Lobe den Herrn meine Seele (Psalm 103 from: Psalms of David); Herzlich lieb hab ich dich (from: Geistliche Chormusik); Herr, wann ich nur dich habe (from: Kleine geistliche Konzerte II); Ist Gott für uns (from: Kleine geistliche Konzerte II)
(Sing&Sign)

Heinrich Schütz (1585 - 1672): Verleih uns Frieden (from: Sacred Choral Music)
Mary Mary, Tine Ohrt: (Take the Shackles of My Teet, so I Can Dance)
(Sing&Sign and Pop-Up)

Dodie (*1995), arr. Isabella Champion: Secret for the Mad; Traditional, arr. Sebastian Döring: I'm Just a Poor Wayfaring Stranger; Sia, arr. Leopold Hoepner: Chandelier; Demi Lovato, arr. Oliver Gies: Sober; Dua Lipa, arr. Raphael Ries: Dance the Night Away; Imagine Dragons, arr. Simon Becking: Believer
(Pop-Up)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Jesu bleibet meine Freude (from: Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life)
(Pop-Up & Sing&Sign)

Afterwards: 30-minute discussion round