The Hannover Girls’ Choir turns 70 and celebrates with a festival concert
The Hannover Girls’ Choir is 70 years old. Members of the Deich family belong to the ensemble almost half the time. What has changed, what has remained? A choir rehearsal.
Hanover. Proud? The word is a little embarrassing for Kerstin Deich as soon as she says it. But that was the feeling she had when her two daughters were accepted into the Hanover Girls’ Choir four years ago. “When the letters with the promises arrived, I was really happy,” she says. After all, the mother knows what awaits her children: almost 30 years earlier – from 1989 to 1994 – she herself sang in the girls’ choir. To this day she feels enriched by it.
Deich didn’t turn music into a career – the 46-year-old is a special needs school teacher. But her professional life would probably look different without her youth in the girls’ choir. “Not a day goes by that I don’t incorporate music and singing into my classes,” she says. In general, the time in the choir was very formative: “You don’t just have something for life with your voice,” believes Deich. She has the feeling that she also needed a special kind of concentration: “I can’t remember any school lesson that required as much discipline as a choir rehearsal.”