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It starts on Thursday – the big stadium singing.
© Source: Florian Petrov
Hanover. Cologne has had it for seven years, it’s always sold out in Berlin, and now Hanover also has its stadium singing. Thousands of people are meeting this Thursday in the Heinz von Heiden Arena, where 96 usually plays against HSV or Düsseldorf, to sing Christmas carols together.
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The musical fun begins at 6 p.m., after the welcome by City Superintendent Rainer Müller-Brandes, it will be quite traditional with “Every year again”, “Your little children are coming” and “O Tannebaum” in front of and on the west stand. Then the choir of the homeless belts out a powerful “Hallelujah” and the music goes into the “Christmas Bakery”. A highlight: the former state bishop and EKD council chairwoman Margot Käßmann, Germany’s most popular pastor, reads the Christmas story from the Gospel of Luke.
Of course it’s also modern in the 96-Stadion. With the Afro-American spiritual “Go tell it to the mountain”, “Jingle Bells” and “Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer”, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra have made this world famous as a duet. And like every Christmas service, the big stadium singing ends with “O you happy”.
The 14 songs are accompanied by professionals under the direction of Insa Becker-Wook: the gospel choir “Pray Station” with Naemi Martin (soprano), Romy Blume (alto voice) and Tobias Seiler (tenor). As well as the Pray Station Band led by Landeskirchen gospel speaker Jan Meyer and with Julian Scarcella on electric guitar, Mario Ehrenberg-Kempf on electric bass and Simon Schröder on drums. Church music director Harald Röhrig sits at the organ, and there are also wind players under the direction of state trombone warden Henning Herzog. Christoph Dannowski from the Neue Presse will moderate the sensual spectacle, which will accompany the figure skating children with their art on the longest icy surface next to the stage for ice hockey open air. The lighting is also wonderfully Christmassy.
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Attention: secure tickets in advance
Almost 5000 tickets have already been sold for Hanover’s first stadium singing. Tickets should be bought in advance at short notice. Because there is no box office. Tickets are available for only five euros (children and choirs even one euro) in the online ticket shop of HAZ and NP tickets.haz.de and in the branches as well as in the Lange Laube. You can also buy tickets online at short notice and print them out immediately.
Good things are done with the proceeds: the money goes to the ecumenical food distribution and the HAZ Christmas Aid.