Menuhin Association organizes last concerts for the dying
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A last Christmas concert for the dying in Hanover
One last concert: The Uhlhorn Hospice received an e-piano from the Döll piano house, and young musicians play Christmas music for the residents and their families.
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Hanover. It will be their last Christmas – or even their last pre-Christmas period. But the nine residents of the Uhlhorn Hospice (Buchholz) were able to forget their own finiteness for an hour on Thursday afternoon. Two young scholarship holders from the organization “Live Music Now Hannover” led by the violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999) play beautiful Christmas carols – one of the concerts that also means something very special for the beginning of the hospice. The Japanese Hinako Inoue (25) on the piano and the Chinese Qingzhu Weng (21) with the violin do everything in ceremonial dressing to make the terminally ill people have a nice afternoon.
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The great master himself had the idea of bringing the music to those who could no longer go to live concerts. During and after the Second World War, Yehudi Menuhin played in military hospitals, for refugees, orphans and survivors of the Shoah. Its “Live Music Now” associations still organize free concerts in prisons and psychiatric hospitals, in old people’s and nursing homes and also in hospices.
Last Christmas concert in the Uhlhorn Hospice
A final Christmas concert for the dying at the Uhlhorn Hospice. Scholarship holders Hinako Inoue on the newly donated piano and Qingzhu Weng (violin) play under Handel’s “Daughter Zion” for residents and other residents.
“Music comforts, music heals, music brings joy”
“Live Music Now” in Hanover has been coming to the Uhlhorn Hospice since 2004. Particularly gifted students from the Hanover University of Music play with this scholarship. “In this special atmosphere, the young artists experience an extraordinary audience and an extraordinary response,” explains Juliane Ellen Dohme, director of Live Music Now. “They feel what music can mean. Menuhin said: Music comforts, music heals, music brings joy. This is a big win for both sides.”
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Three residents enjoyed the concert on site. Not everyone came out of their rooms, but everyone could listen to the music. “Some don’t want that because the music is so stirring and touching,” says the director and soul of the hospice, Gabriele Kahl, from experience. Anyone who is there was dressed up again at their own request, “a footbath for one lady who also had a visitor with her, that was something very special”. It was probably a request concert, “Tochter Zion” by Georg Friedrich Handel and “Mariä Wiegenlied” by Max Reger also touched “Schwester Gabi” very deeply. “The piano can record, so now we can always hear ‘Daughter Zion’ at Christmas time.”
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Also there was Ariane Jablonka, managing director of the Döll piano house, who donated a Yamaha e-piano worth 1500 euros to the hospice, now it was used for the first time in a concert. “My husband passed away from a serious cancer early last year,” she said. “That was when I first came into contact with the Uhlhorn Hospice. The hospices give us suffering relatives and also the seriously ill a lot of courage and hope in a difficult time, you are in good hands here, the people are there with a lot of heart and love.
![The creators and the artists: Ariane Jablonka, Hinako Inoue and Qingzhu Weng, Anke Reichwald, Gabriele Kahl and Juliane Ellen Dohme (from left).](https://www.haz.de/resizer/Ckz0vGsIBjuwYH0F06q7mUCgUTk=/428x241/filters:quality(70):format(webp)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/madsack/OD7SQDVLH4UWIWZ7VAN5VG7WLM.jpg)
The creators and the artists: Ariane Jablonka, Hinako Inoue and Qingzhu Weng, Anke Reichwald, Gabriele Kahl and Juliane Ellen Dohme (from left).
© Source: Tim Schaarschmidt
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After hospice managing director Anke Reichwald told her that young Menuhin scholarship holders would also come here – “I know their qualities”, she didn’t think twice and gave the hospice a pre-Christmas present. “You can regulate it loudly and quietly and transport it easily, even bring it into the residents’ rooms.” That such talented young artists would play the instrument “I’m particularly pleased”.