SUSTAINABILITY ORATORIUM

The church musician Thomas Gabriel (Diocese of Mainz) is composing a sustainability oratorio based on the 5 Ps: People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, Partnership, on behalf of the Trinity Parish Church Choir. The work is a process-based work and can be performed in a modular and flexible manner even when finished, and is not tied to a sacred environment. In the first step, which was submitted with this funding application, Gabriel is composing the message of the youth, based on the Bible scene in which the twelve-year-old Jesus disappears during the Passover festival to teach the scribes in the temple what they believe they know but do not act on. This message is being composed in rap and hip hop style and will be developed on October 4th/5.10th in a workshop in Heidenheim with young people from selected primary and secondary schools, vocational secondary schools and secondary schools. On October 6.10th, the young people will perform in the main service. On Sunday afternoon, the young people present the meaning of their message to the adults (members of the church community, parents, civil society) in the music school. The adults reflect on what they have heard and engage in dialogue with the young people. The process is documented in writing, artistically and visually and on video and then published and put up for discussion by the church community, the schools, the Heidenheim "Forum for Education and Development" and the city of Heidenheim. From this overall view, Gabriel will compose the second part of the oratorio in the first half of 1 from the perspective of the adults who have gained insight and (partially) been purified. The church choir will study this part and will perform selected songs in a church service, with the thoughts and reflections expressed being exchanged with young people in the afternoon so that they can comment on whether their warnings, suggestions and demands have been heard and understood. In a third and final compositional step, Gabriel connects the worlds of adults and young people with solo parts (comparable to the recitatives in operas or the evangelist in passion music). There is an intention to apply for funding for the second and third steps as well. The premiere of the sustainability oratorio is planned for the fourth quarter of 2020. What is new is the modular and process-based way in which the work is created and the constant feedback with civil society. So far, it is not known that an oratorio on the subject of sustainability has ever been written before. The Dreifaltigkeit church choir wants to perform this work in other places after the premiere. A contribution to the church music festival in Schwäbisch Gmünd in 2 would be conceivable. The modular and therefore changeable structure of the work is also ideally suited to being performed in other parishes and cities, adapted to the context.

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