Open letter against Andreas Reize
According to BR-Klassik, several St. Thomas choir members have written a letter of protest to the public. They reject Andreas Reize as Thomaskantor and plead for David Timm as choirmaster.
In their letter, the Thomaner 11th and 12th graders formulated a harsh reproach: Reize had not noticed during his rehearsal conducting that the choir's intonation was not good. Although the singers had almost dropped a tone during one piece, he had not intervened. According to BR-Klassik, Brödel, director of the Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik in Dresden and now president of the Neue Bach-Gesellschaft, explains that Reize deliberately did not intervene so as not to overtax the choir.
The radio station speculates that it is possible that former St. Thomas Boys' Choir members or employees have reservations about Andreas Reize because he is Catholic and comes from Switzerland.
Original article:
https://www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/news-kritik/thomaner-chor-andreas-reize-thomaskantor-widerstand-100.html
