Thomas Scherb

Thomas Scherb

Friday, April 18, 2025, 3 p.m.
Xenia Preiseberger, Thomas Scherb, Wolfgang Heilmann (piano)
Kurt-Laurenz Theinert (light installation)
Angela Fabian, Dietmar Zoller (liturgy)

Erik Satie’s “Vexations” is a very short work. However, the composer demands that the piece be repeated 840 times. The three pianists alternate every two hours, and the church will be open all night. It is possible to enter and leave the church at any time. In addition to the music and the two services, a slowly changing light installation bathes the Marktkirche in a new glow and illustrates the events. At the hour of death (Good Friday, 3 p.m.), the music fades into silence.

District Cantor Wolfgang Heilmann invites you to this musical-liturgical experiment on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. Good Friday, a new imposition every year. This man on the cross. The world’s suffering is concentrated on him. Again and again the question of “why.” Endurance and compassion, vigil and prayer. That is the task.

Precisely this liminal experience is also intended to be conveyed by the liturgical format. The two services with Holy Communion in the Marktkirche Bad Bergzabern on Maundy Thursday (April 17, 7 p.m.) and Good Friday (April 18, 10 a.m.) will be unusual, disconcerting, reduced, and set to music by Erik Satie (1866-1925).

The doctor and medical journalist Thomas Scherb returned late but very successfully to his youthful profession as a pianist.

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