Encouraged by his shining role model, the androgynous pop singer David Bowie, the Briton George Alan O'Dowd reinvented himself as a shimmering and stylistically unique fictional figure: Boy George. When he founded the group Culture Club, which stormed the world's hit parades in the 1980s with several songs, including the unforgettable "Karma Chameleon", which Peter Kleine Schaars now breathed new life into with his arrangement for wind orchestra.