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Mettmann. On Sunday, March 7th, the St. Lambertus Choir and Church Music will officially open its own YouTube channel with a series of contributions specially produced for the video platform.
On eight Sundays in a row, starting at 6 p.m., individual singers from all choir groups as well as regional cantor Matthias Röttger invite you to make virtual “flying visits” to the organ gallery, to which church visitors normally only rarely have access.
Since choir singing is not possible at all or only to a very limited extent during pandemic times, not the singing but the lyrics of choral songs are presented in the first five contributions, combined with personal thoughts or experiences of the singers. The historic Lambertus organ takes center stage in three further episodes.
The fact that the regional music councils in Germany have named the organ “Instrument of the Year 2021” is a welcome occasion for Matthias Röttger to let the YouTube audience watch him in the truest sense of the word on his fingers and feet while he is playing. In addition, he will introduce the different pipes of the instrument during a virtual organ tour. After the eight-week kick-off series has ended, choir contributions will continue to be shown in loose succession on YouTube.
With the launch of the channel and other social media activities on Facebook choirs and church music want to make it clear: We are still here! They have been using internet platforms for rehearsals and their internal choir work since March of last year. While singing together was previously not possible, choir rehearsals can now take place almost in real time with the open source software “Jamulus”. The Lambertus choirs are among the first in the Archdiocese of Cologne to use Jamulus.
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