Bernardisonntag in Schlierbach Abbey with the Abbey Choir Festive Church Service

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Bernardisonntag, August 23, 9:30 AM: Festive church service in the Schlierbach Abbey Church. The Schlierbach Abbey Choir, together with the Kantorei Liturgia from Lenzburg (CH), will sing Joseph Haydn's Missa Sancti Bernardi von Offida for choir and orchestra, which will be celebrated by Kremsmünster Abbot P. Bernhard Eckerstorfer. This service strengthens the connection with the Swiss choir, which was established in June through the participation of the Schlierbach Abbey Choir in the titular feast of the Herz Jesu parish in Lenzburg. The Abbey Choir experienced a warm and varied weekend of encounters there. In addition to visiting the historic old town and the castle, the great hospitality and joint music-making were particularly central. Thanks to the friendly relations between Abbot Nikolaus and the church musician and local choir director Florian Zaunmayr, who comes from the Traunviertel, and abbey organist Josef Gasser, a choir with more than 60 singers will be formed on Bernardisonntag...