How choirs are suffering during the pandemic
Last year, a study by the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) painted a devastating picture of the effects of the pandemic on choral music in German-speaking countries. The survey was repeated this spring.
As the evaluation shows, the situation has stabilized somewhat in terms of membership numbers and finances, but this part of musical culture is also suffering from long Covid, the university writes. One in five choirs is still not rehearsing. In addition, ensembles that have been unable to recruit children and young people as a result of the pandemic often need to be rebuilt.
In spring 2022, just under a quarter of the otherwise active choir members among those surveyed were still inactive, which is the same order of magnitude as in 2021 and means that most choirs have not yet returned to their original membership numbers. The forecast for membership figures after the pandemic is somewhat more optimistic in 2022 than a year earlier, even though eight percent of choirs still expect a permanent and significant loss of members.
Original article:
https://www.ku.de/news/mit-zaghafter-stimme-welche-folgen-die-pandemie-weiterhin-fuer-die-chormusik-hat
