Our academic musical ensembles never sound sweeter than at Christmastime - you could rephrase the Christmas classic like that.
Because around the holidays, Magdeburg University's orchestra and Big Band traditionally treat us to festive and jubilant concerts. In order for the notes to be played in harmony, the members not only have to have talent, but also have to rehearse together.
Since she was four years old, Luise Rudolph has been on the stages that mean the world to her. The singer of the university Big Band is studying educational science for her bachelor's degree and has been part of the musical combo since She particularly remembers the performance with Lisa Bassenge on the lawn of the FestungMark, the Christmas concert at the OliKino in and the end-of-semester concert in in Lecture Hall 6, which was filled to the brim with audience members.
The cultural engineering student has already tried out a few things: Home organ, church organ, piano. She stuck with the flute. When she started her studies in , she saw on the Internet that there was an academic orchestra at the University of Magdeburg and was eager to join - in the summer of , the time had finally come. Ina: And with this catchy Christmas tune, I would like to welcome you to a new episode of our internal podcast "Listen in on the University". Not only do they study with us, they are also members of our Academic Orchestra and our Big Band, respectively, who always delight us with great concerts around Christmas time.
And to get a glimpse behind the scenes of our musical ensembles, I invited the two of them. Welcome you two! Ina: When you're not making music for us, what are you doing at the university?
