Those of you who know Hans Holzwarth are aware of how incredibly enthusiastic he is about his music projects. He initiated Starkes Blech in Stuttgart back in 1999, which is now a bi-annual concert in the courtyard of the Old Castle downtown.
This past spring he gathered the musicians from his Variate Brass Ensemble and added to this nine-person band a contrabassoonist and arranged two hours of music for them. The result of all the rehearsals was enjoyed by an appreciative audience at the Lukaskirche in Stuttgart-Ost on March 23, 2019.
At one point Hans was conducting while playing percussion. The multi-instrumentalist was a bass soloist with regional choirs, leads the Posaunenchor Ost, plays the flugelhorn in brass ensembles, and arranges music for his various ensembles with an amount of enthusiasm that I have rarely seen in anyone. He also conducted a brass choir concert at the train station in Stuttgart every Christmas Eve for 38 years until his retirement in 2015.
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