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Leipzig, Germany Stages Bach's 250th Anniversary
Meyer Sound Self-Powered Loudspeakers Help The City Commemorate Bach's 250th Anniversary On July 28 of this year, following more than two years of preparation, the German city of Leipzig (Bach's home town) hosted an unprecedented musical marathon. For an unbroken period of 24 hours, the immortal works of Johann Sebastian Bach inspired a continuous media celebration that included live music, music recordings, documentaries and "news clips" concerning the life and work of this illustrious composer. The entire event was produced for television and up-linked to satellite for broadcast in 30 countries. The complete production of "24 Hours of Bach" involved over 400 musicians, in six orchestras, seven ensembles, three choirs, plus forty soloists and conductors. A highlight of the marathon television event was "Swinging Bach," an open-air concert whose sound reinforcement systems featured more than 50 Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeakers. It was beamed live from Leipzig's historic market square to living rooms throughout Germany via ZDF. Top billing went to Bobby McFerrin, whose artful vocal styling blended perfectly with the renowned Gewandhaus Orchestra and left the audience cheering for more. Other featured artists were the Jacques Loussier Trio, Turtle Island String Quartet, Gil Shahan, Adele Anthony, the German Brass and Jiri Stevin. To maintain production continuity with a minimum of interruption in the music, two separate stages were constructed in front of the famous old city hall. Smaller ensembles were presented on the left hand stage, while the Gewandhaus Orchestra and associated soloists performed on the larger stage to the right. Identical Meyer Sound reinforcement systems were flown over each stage, suspended from mobile cranes. Each flown stage cluster comprised of eight MSL-4 mid-high cabinets, four PSW-4 subwoofers and two UPA-1Ps utilized for down fill. Each stage employed four 650-P subwoofers as well as two more UPA-1P and three UPM-1P for front, center and side fills. The FOH mix position and both lighting towers were erected 50 meters from the stage, with three UPA-2P delay loudspeakers suspended at the rear of each tower. FOH Engineer, Norbert Ommer commented on the system. "It (Meyer Sound loudspeaker systems) is superbly suited to classical music because it is extremely linear in array applications. Also, it can throw very far, and the response is highly predictable. Meyer Sound is a system you can rely on all over the world, no matter where you are working, whether it's New York or Paris or here in Leipzig. The fixed configuration of the loudspeakers and internal amplifiers produces consistently first-class results. This is an enormously important advantage. In conventional systems, the amplifiers are separate, and that produces a wide range of variations in overall response. But today, an MSL-4 defines the state of the art. With these speakers, whether it's a single box or several, or even when designing and entire system, I always know what I will get." Using AutoCAD, system designer Thomas Zuellich of Meyer Sound Germany determined the optimum components and array orientation required for complete, uniform coverage of the audience area. His design served as the basis for the actual system configuration as implemented by the event support company ADAPOE SOUND, Weimar. Crew: October, 2000 |
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