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Review of April 2022: New chairs, general meeting and choral gems by Brahms and Rossini

A lot is happening in St Paul's Church: pews from the tower storage area were replaced using a mobile crane and some were stored externally to make room for 150 brand new concert chairs. They will enable us to have more flexible seating arrangements in the church in future. And, of course, there was singing and music too!


Fortunately, the onset of winter at the beginning of April did not catch us on the wrong foot - despite the snowfall and freezing cold, a large audience made their way to the concert by the ‘RegioChor Binningen/Basel’, which performed Rossini's ‘Petite Messe solennelle’, a masterpiece of Italian Romanticism:

Video by Caspar Streit


Shortly before Easter, the FHNW Academy of Music honoured us with its choir and orchestra of around 100 young students. They brought the St Paul's Church to life with no less a work than the ‘German Requiem’ by Johannes Brahms:


On Thursday, 21 April 2022, we held our annual general meeting from 19:30 to 21:00. It was the first regular general meeting after the founding meeting in September 2020 and was dedicated to the long association year 2020/2021.


A special treat of the evening were the brand-new concert chairs from ‘horgenglarus’, which had just been delivered that afternoon and were inaugurated in a fitting manner by the members' meeting. Prior to this, church pews were heaved out of the tower in a spectacular castling operation and stored externally:

Photos courtesy by René Bettschen und David Rossel


President Bruno Lötscher-Steiger conducted the statutory part of the evening with aplomb, which was repeatedly livened up with vocal interludes from the Basel a cappella quartet ‘cantuccini’.


The 2020/2021 annual report, including the annual financial statements and audit report, can be downloaded here:


 
 
 

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