For the first time: Open Stage at the Steinmühle
Did the Steinmühle’s already rich cultural program really need yet another event? After the first Open Stage event on January 26, 2016, it was clear to all visitors and participants: absolutely! The audience enjoyed a total of 17 performances.
And it was a varied program: Following the lively opening performance by the “Swing and Sing” club, featuring students from grades 5 and 7, there were—in no particular order—nine vocal numbers and seven solo instrumental performances, with all the performers receiving long, sustained applause. The singers were skillfully and sensitively accompanied by pianist Olaf Roth.
Among the many excellent performances, there was once again something particularly noteworthy: the confidence with which Nelly Endres (piano), Tom Herfert (saxophone), and Johanna Sodmann (piano) played their instruments, and the skillful way in which Maria Theresa Alves Hengstl performed both on the harp and with her singing voice.
The musical highlight was undoubtedly Bodam Lee ’s violin performance, which would go on to earn her a perfect score of 25 out of 25 at the regional round of “Jugend musiziert” a few days later. As a special treat, there was also a remarkable joint performance with Marco Lüddecke (piano), during which our boarding school counselor revealed himself to be a composer.
And then, the emotional climax at the very end: Mohamad Saboor Tajik, our Afghan student, rapped “A Few Words About Afghanistan,” expressing his concern for his homeland and his personal feelings.
Open Stage Program, January 26, 2016
1. Swing and Sing Club: 1 dance and 1 song
Alexia Boboc, Rebecca Herrmann, Clara Hertl, Kim Kaletsch, Annika Schöning (all in 7th grade)
as well as Chiara Enders, Melissa Mägerlein (all KI.5)
2. Tabea Lamber: Singing Miley Cyrus’s “The Climb”
3. Miriam Verweyhen: Tessarini Concert Violin / F. Seitz. Concert
4. Nelly Endres: Piano, E. Grieg, “Poetic Tone Pictures,” No. 1 in E-flat minor
5. Antonia Schwarz: Singing “Irgendwas bleibt” by Silbermond
6. Maria Theresia Alves Hengstl: Harp “The Kitchen Ragtime” and
“Morning Coffee in the Desert”
7. Alissa Thomas & Noah Herrmann: Vocals and guitar
8. Tabitha Sell: Piano – Adele, “Someone Like You”
9. Tom Herfert & Frank Wemme: Saxophone and Guitar “Time after time”
10. Maria T. Alves Hengstl & Lara Turba : Vocal duet “Dream a Little Dream of Me”
11. Johanna Sodmann: Piano—Shostakovich, “Spanish Dance”
12. Maria T. Alves Hengstl: Song: Let It Go
13. Rike Batz: Singing Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well”
14. Bodam Lee: Violin “Isang Yun (1917–1995)”
“Li-Na in the Garden” / 5th Movement “The Little Bird”
15. Bodam Lee & Marco Lüddecke: Violin & Piano Blue Waltz Allegro (by M. Lüddecke)
16. Linda Balser: Singing Adele’s “Someone Like You”
17. Mohammad Saboor : Rap song about Afghanistan
