We won't let ourselves be banned from singing, thought a handful of music-loving Bremen lesbians and gays in the spring of 1997 and founded a choir with the name Da capo al dente, which is still disputed but undoubtedly has a pleasant sound. The fairly mixed ensemble currently consists of thirty singers - women with a stable two-thirds majority - and has hardly any style of vocal music, from the late medieval madrigal to contemporary tone poetry, from African rhythms to the immortal masterpieces of Western pop culture arts left out. Every note a hit is the ambitious goal that Da Capo Al  Dente has been able to approach with his occasional appearances in the regional scene. The unwavering beat of Christiane Fricke and - since the beginning of 2000 - Christian Höffling has always proved to be extremely helpful. The choir does not only compete for the favor of its mainly tragic audience with good intentions in terms of musical brilliance, but also with relevant repertoire.

The carefully revised evergreens, in which the joys and sorrows of being a homosexual are sympathetically sung about, include the wistful memories of a young lesbian of her first summer as well as the ballad of the lonely homosexual, for whose poignant composition we would like to once again express our heartfelt thanks want to thank Udo Jürgens. Anyone who would like to hear us has two opportunities to do so as part of Various Voices 2001: we will be performing together with "Deep C Divas" (Manchester), "Der gemischte Damenchor" (Berlin), "Club Nachtigall" (Hamburg) and the "PhilHOMOniker" (Munich) on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2001 4:00 + 6:00 p.m. in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in the Tiergarten - bus line 100 - and on Friday, May 25th, 2001 at 9:00 p.m. together with the Choirs "Die Zauberflöten" from Cologne and "Mélo 'Men" from Paris in the Max-Beckmann-Saal, Luxemburgerstr. 20, 13353 Berlin, UBahnhof Amrumer Str./U9

Tickets are available at: www.variousvoices.de

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