Category: Choir / Vocal , Organ / Sacred Music
The KONTAKTANZEIGEN or VARIATIONS ABOUT LOVE was the first work composed for the vocal ensemble SINGPHONIKER in 1985, which established a firm friendship lasting over 25 years. The contact advertisements were performed countless times (also in English for the USA) and in 2010 they were recorded a second time for Öhms Classics on the CD CHATROOM. - A cheeky piece of music that is not afraid of the banal trash aesthetic (or even "punk-aesthetics") as the most creative melting pot of modern art.
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Movements: 1: Allegro barbaro, 2: Cantilena di notte,
3: Tango delle abbreviature, 4: Scherzissimo
Duration: 9:30 (2:30, 2:20, 1:20, 3:30)
Publisher of notes/sheet music: Schott Music , ED 22302 , 2012
Instrumentation: 1: Version for 5 male voices and piano,
2: Version for choir/vocal ensemble (S MS A T B)
Text/Lyrics by: Newspaper texts (announcements)
Introduction: Up to today's "postmodern art", the actual creative act is the linking of pre-existent materials and their interpretation in a new context. Authenticity arises from everydayness, banality, bulky refuse and allows - in a niche, so to speak - real poetry to emerge. It is like film: photographic authenticity and the documentary view of forgotten things are often more shocking than the elaborately staged and artificial.
Exactly this aesthetic - especially the text modules taken from news papers - are committed to this CD. The KONTAKTANZEIGEN composed in 1984 take up functional banalities: the poetry of "m. sucht w. für Liebe" or "Arzt sucht symp. Sie mit gr. Busen" is further intensified by the obsession with abbreviations motivated by the cheap urge as a sign of everyday use.
Dedication: Dedicated to the Singphoniker
Additional remarks: As evergreen in the Singphoniker's repertoire which has been performed many tmes in all countries (also translated into English)
World premiere: 10.04.1986, Large concert hall in the Munich University of Music & Theatre
Performers at world premiere: 1st version: Die Singphoniker, 1984 April
2nd version: 2.5.2001, historical Hall Regensburg: New chamber choir ofthe church music school in Regensburg, with: Franz Prechtl (piano), Kunibert Schäfer (direction)
Press reviews for world premiere: Süddeutsche Zeitung
Mainpost Würzburg
Donau-Kurier Ingolstadt
Neu-Ulmer Zeitung
Records: 1: Wergo SM 1056-50 'Singphoniker: Concert Collection', 1987
Performers on recording: 1: Die Singphoniker,
2: Die Pinguin Singers, on 'Wenn ich vergnügt bin, mkuß ich singen' Mediatone M57-001
3: Die Singphoniker, auf Oehms Classics CD "CHATROOM an other Works by Enjott Schneider" 2013
