Composer Peter Schindler on this separate edition from Perpetuum mobile:
It’s the eternal cycle: old age stands down, youth demands its rights. C'est la vie! “Omittamus” on text no. 75 in the Codex Buranus is a lively song of youth. It’s an undisguised invitation to students to escape their dusty books and devote their lives entirely to this world, because time flies past in a hurry!
This poem, grounded in life experience, is characterized by an impartial approach to the pagan figures of ancient mythology. Let us do as the gods do is a worthy motto! In the Middle Ages, the “old gods of antiquity” were no longer taken seriously as a danger. They were valued as an educational asset and a poetic artistic medium.
The music is exuberant and cheerful, and it is quite conceivable that the piece could be staged as follows: the assembled singers with a glass of wine in hand toast each other and pay homage to the moment. Live like God in France, that could be the meaning! Ergo bibamus!
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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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