Germany is admired and envied for its rich historical and cultural musical landscape. 129 professional orchestra in Germany offer the whole year round Live classical experience, almost half of all Opera performances which take place in the world, brought to you by the 80’s music theater ensemble on the stage, and it is the state and city theatres. The German universities of music have such a good reputation that they attract students from everywhere.

And then there is of course the Amateur scene. Like some of the house music dying out of my, in schools and families today would be sung to little, and the importance of music in society is deplorable – the Numbers determined by the landesmusikrat Berlin alone now for the capital are impressive: at Least 114 000 people make music in their spare time, 1.9 million visitors, the performances of the Berlin Amateurs every year. Including many friends and relatives who would typically avoid the venues of high culture.

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13 000 Volunteers ensure that rehearsals and concerts are organized. And because the choruses and orchestra not only rent rooms, notes, loans and instruments, but also around 5000 professionals as leaders to do in order to give wage and bread, is the Amateur music scene is also a real factor in the Berlin economy.

The landesmusikrat Berlin that’s not enough, of course. The lobbyists, to the President of Hella Dunger-Löper swing the great Mace – comes out when you are Competing for attention and state funds equal to at least a small progress. In the two master plans, which have now been published on the topics of “musicality and the promotion of young talent” as well as “Amateur music”, set to a maximum of demands, to design the scenario of an ideal state.

In the day-care centres there are teachers who have the competence to discover the Smallest musical talents. Schools and music schools are very closely interconnected, if later, the highly talented to create free spaces to Practice. The profession of music teacher is not so attractive as that of the orchestral musician, because the teachers in the schools are no more treated only as a marginal subject-Teaching. But because it promotes their efforts, financial aid for choir free and similar grants times. And of the teaching of music, only 20 percent schools are permanently employed, as previously decided, but rather 80 percent by the year 2025.

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For the Amateur, in turn, it designs the state music Council in its master plan, it would give a free access to rooms in public buildings in the districts. Why not samples of a choir in the evening in the canteen of a financial office? And what speaks against it, if in the hall, Ensembles plow through scores, if not in use for sessions? Here, the Berlin-based sports promotion law is a model.

would be Great also a structural Fund for fee agents, located at the Senate administration of culture, from which the conductors of the Amateur musician is appropriate, can be paid instead of the often precarious. And with the rental increases in the major churches and concert halls also, the conclusion would be in this Vision. Up to 80 percent of the have increased in the past 12 years, for a performance office General sample of about 16 000 Euro in the Philharmonie, in the meantime, due.

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At Best, say the lobbyists, it would, of course, if the growing city would build another concert hall with perfect acoustics for oratorios performances. It’s just a dream.