Documentary Concert Tour of the GewandhausChor in India

From 11 to 18 March 2012 the GewandhausChor travels to India at the invitation of the Goethe-Institut. The renowned amateur choir, which this season celebrates its 150th anniversary, will give the world premiere of a work by the Leipzig composer Bernd Franke in Calcutta and Bangalore, among other pieces. In “Pran”, Franke sets texts by the Indian painter, musician and composer Rabindranath Tagore. The piece will be heard for the first time in Tagore’s birthplace in Calcutta. In Bangalore the choir sings before 2000 people, performing not only “Pran” but also works by Bach and Mendelssohn Bartholdy, among others. schmidtFilm documents the tour on behalf of the Goethe-Institut, the Gewandhaus Leipzig and for MDR.