Composer Peter Schindler on this separate edition from Perpetuum mobile:
“Let's drink, let's play and forget our worries. Let everyone join in, for death is certain.“ That’s the motto of this world-famous text (no. 196 in the Codex Buranus), which has been set to music many times, including by Carl Orff. It’s almost impossible to count all the guests listed here. They include the clergyman, the soldier, the slave, the maid, the mistress, the fool and the wise man; the young toast the old. Black-haired, fair-haired, men, women – all are drinking together. So many people have come, probably hundreds! Imagine a bustling medieval tavern where people go to extremes regardless of the consequences. Everyone’s toasting each other. And because everyone knows that life is short, a sense of fatalism sets in: as long as you live and love, you enjoy your life to the full, because the end is inevitable. And after all, you can’t take it with you!
The music reflects this energetic activity. You can literally hear the orders echoing through the pub, you can listen to the clattering of the dice. You can see the teasing and watch the mockery, all with unconcealed joy. A bravura piece for choirs, suitable for a cheerful variety show.
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Peter Schindler
| 1960Composer, pianist and organist Peter Schindler writes and performs music for ballets and theatrical performances, films and dramatic recordings, instrumental and choral arrangements, chansons and sacred works. He is particularly passionate about his compositions for children and young adults, which has come to comprise hundreds of humourous children’s songs (Kinderhits mit Witz). His full-length musicals include Geisterstunde auf Schloss Eulenstein (Witching Hour at Eulenstein Castle), Max und die Käsebande (Max and the Cheese Gang), König Keks (Cookie King), Zirkus Furioso (Circus Allegro), and SCHOCKORANGE. These musicals are some of the most frequently played pieces of their kind by children’s and youth choirs in German-speaking theaters and schools. With his first English musical Circus Allegro, Peter’s hugely sucessful work for all kids under 100 is now also accessible to audiences around the world.
For further information visit: http://peter-schindler.de/
We asked the composer 6 questions, read them here in our blog: https://blog.carus-verlag.com/en/personalities/5-questions-for-peter-schindler/
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