2017<\/strong><\/h5>\n
\nTouch The Song
\n<\/strong>A personal encounter with songs of our planet Earth
\nin the Museum of Lueneburg<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"Mail_vorne\"](\"https:\/\/www.frauenchor-lueneburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mail_vorne-300x150.png\")
<\/p>\n
The repertoire of this concert is inspired by the relationship between the human being and
\nthe divine, nature and community. The most beautiful expression of this we find in traditional
\nsong \u2013 healing- and cradle-songs, love-songs and poetry. The women’s choir “Femmes Vocales”
\nis cultivating this original bond and will present songs from various traditional cultures in a beautiful and intimate setting.<\/h5>\n
\nWorkshop Concert With Soloists from the Choir<\/strong><\/h5>\nBenefiz-Concert for the Project:
\n“Therapies for traumatised children and young refugees”<\/p>\n
![\"Konzert_Vorders\"](\"https:\/\/www.frauenchor-lueneburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Konzert_Vorders-300x215.png\")
<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n\n2015<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/h5>\nConcert in the Museum of Lueneburg<\/strong><\/h5>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.frauenchor-lueneburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-Wandelkonzert.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n\u201eTavis upleba \u2013 Freedom to be yourself” \u2013 A Georgian-German Choir-Project directed by Imke McMurtrie and Tamar Buadze.<\/p>\n
13. and 14. June 2015
\n27. and 28. November 2015<\/p>\n
Zeitungsartikel (PDF)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nZeitungskritik (PDF)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n\n<\/h5>\n
\n2014<\/strong><\/h5>\nConcerte “Resonanz” in The Town-Hall and The Music-School of Lueneburg<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.frauenchor-lueneburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2014-Resonanz.jpg\")
<\/a>Jubil\u00e4umskonzerte anl\u00e4sslich des 10-j\u00e4hrigen Bestehens der Chorleitung unter Imke McMurtrie.
\n4. und 6. Juli 2014
\n
\n<\/em>(Zeitungsartikel (PDF)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u201cFemmes Vocales\u201d \u2013 Frauenchor-Projekt:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nIn L\u00fcneburg seit 2004 unter der Leitung von Imke McMurtrie
\nDie Frauen von Femmes Vocales singen Lieder aus verschiedenen Kulturen, Traditionen und Glaubensrichtungen: heitere, melancholische, ruhige, lebhafte, bekannte, ungewohnte …
\nSie singen nicht mit dem Anspruch auf Perfektion, sondern sie m\u00f6chten die Freude an der sozialen, heilsamen und harmonisierenden Seite des Singens gemeinsam erleben und weitergeben.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
2013
\n<\/strong>
\nGeorgian-German Women\u2019s Singing Project\u00a0<\/strong>
\nMusic ethnologists and singers from nine countries of Western Europe will exchange songs of their own traditions with the Georgian women\u2019s choir Tutarchela. In exchange the Georgian singers will teach songs from their own polyphonic tradition. The project will culminate in final concerts in Georgia and possibly also in the countries of the other participants. The project is supported by the patronage of the Embassies and Cultural Institutes of the participating countries.
\nRehearsals and concerts will take place in May 2013 in Tbilissi\/Georgia.
\nFor this project we are still looking for sponsorship: please contact us.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
2012<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cThe Sound of Silence\u201d, Monestary Luene in Lueneburg\/North-Germany<\/strong>
\nJuly, 6th and 7th, 2012 at 7 and 8.30pm
\nA musical-scenic walk with instrumental and vocal music from medieval to contemporary composers with the music-ensemble Megaphon Hannover and the women\u2019s choir Femmes Vocales e.V. L\u00fcneburg
\nartistic director: Lenka \u017dupkov\u00e1
\nchoreography: Mikael Honesseau
\nchoir conductor: Imke McMurtrie
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
2011<\/strong><\/p>\nFemmes Vocales \u2013 Tutarchela (Republic of Georgia): Women\u2019s Choir Exchange<\/strong>
\n2011: The women\u2019s choir Femmes Vocales initiated this project to create international mutual understanding between Georgia and Germany through sharing traditional polyphonic songs. This project was supported by the patronage of the German Embassy in Tbilissi and the major of the City of Lueneburg. The objective was to build a bridge between two musical traditions and to enable an inspiring exchange of two very different approaches and methods of singing.
\nThe embracing of the foreign, and appreciation of one\u2019s own singing culture is a unique and practical way to international mutual understanding. Singing together has always been an excellent way to bring people together, which has unfortunately become forgotten in the face of an increasingly passive consumption of music.
\nThis musical exchange between Georgian and German women has also given the participants an insight into the different day-to-day realities of life for the women of each country.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cCanti di Guarigione\u201d \u2013 Healing Songs with the voice ethnologist Germana Giannini<\/strong>
\nSince 2006 Germana and Imke have been meeting regularly in Italy, Spain and Germany
\nfor music-ethnological exchange and concerts to experience and research the healing capacity of ethnic singing. Both singers, Germana and Imke have been studying with indigenious people and singers from many different countries to explore the significance that ethnic singing can have for us all.
\nThe sharing and transmission of the songs from different traditions is done with an attitude of utmost gratitude and respect towards the people and the culture from which they stem. It is a reverence for the Oneness of all traditions and for the experience that brought these songs to life. For people have often survived traumatic experiences, political oppression, social destruction, economic disaster, inner and outer hostility, crisis of identity and spiritual decay with the help of their singing. One can almost say that the power of song is especially appreciated and vivid in cultures where there is great suffering. Maybe singing together and listening to each other comes easier when there is nothing else to hold on to or to pretend.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cFemmes Vocales\u201d \u2013 Women\u2019s Choir Project:<\/strong><\/p>\nin Lueneburg, North-Germany since 2004, conductor Imke McMurtrie.
\nThe repertoire of the women\u2019s choir Femmes Vocales includes songs from many different cultures, traditions and creeds: happy, sad, quiet, lively, well known and unknown songs …
\nThe women of the choir don\u2019t sing to achieve perfection, but to experience and pass on the joy of song and its intercultural, social, curative\/healing and harmonising effect.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
2024 Hamburg: Songs from Home International Women’s Singing Group since 2018 every 2nd and 4th Monday in the month from 18.30 – 20.30pm in Goldbek-Haus\/Winterhude\u00a0in the frame of “Wir im Quartier\u2013 Together with Refugees” registration and further information at: … Continue reading
\nTouch The Song
\n<\/strong>A personal encounter with songs of our planet Earth
\nin the Museum of Lueneburg<\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The repertoire of this concert is inspired by the relationship between the human being and
\nthe divine, nature and community. The most beautiful expression of this we find in traditional
\nsong \u2013 healing- and cradle-songs, love-songs and poetry. The women’s choir “Femmes Vocales”
\nis cultivating this original bond and will present songs from various traditional cultures in a beautiful and intimate setting.<\/h5>\n
\nWorkshop Concert With Soloists from the Choir<\/strong><\/h5>\nBenefiz-Concert for the Project:
\n“Therapies for traumatised children and young refugees”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n\n2015<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/h5>\nConcert in the Museum of Lueneburg<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\u201eTavis upleba \u2013 Freedom to be yourself” \u2013 A Georgian-German Choir-Project directed by Imke McMurtrie and Tamar Buadze.<\/p>\n
13. and 14. June 2015
\n27. and 28. November 2015<\/p>\n
Zeitungsartikel (PDF)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nZeitungskritik (PDF)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n\n<\/h5>\n
\n2014<\/strong><\/h5>\nConcerte “Resonanz” in The Town-Hall and The Music-School of Lueneburg<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>Jubil\u00e4umskonzerte anl\u00e4sslich des 10-j\u00e4hrigen Bestehens der Chorleitung unter Imke McMurtrie.
\n4. und 6. Juli 2014
\n
\n<\/em>(Zeitungsartikel (PDF)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u201cFemmes Vocales\u201d \u2013 Frauenchor-Projekt:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nIn L\u00fcneburg seit 2004 unter der Leitung von Imke McMurtrie
\nDie Frauen von Femmes Vocales singen Lieder aus verschiedenen Kulturen, Traditionen und Glaubensrichtungen: heitere, melancholische, ruhige, lebhafte, bekannte, ungewohnte …
\nSie singen nicht mit dem Anspruch auf Perfektion, sondern sie m\u00f6chten die Freude an der sozialen, heilsamen und harmonisierenden Seite des Singens gemeinsam erleben und weitergeben.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
2013
\n<\/strong>
\nGeorgian-German Women\u2019s Singing Project\u00a0<\/strong>
\nMusic ethnologists and singers from nine countries of Western Europe will exchange songs of their own traditions with the Georgian women\u2019s choir Tutarchela. In exchange the Georgian singers will teach songs from their own polyphonic tradition. The project will culminate in final concerts in Georgia and possibly also in the countries of the other participants. The project is supported by the patronage of the Embassies and Cultural Institutes of the participating countries.
\nRehearsals and concerts will take place in May 2013 in Tbilissi\/Georgia.
\nFor this project we are still looking for sponsorship: please contact us.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
2012<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cThe Sound of Silence\u201d, Monestary Luene in Lueneburg\/North-Germany<\/strong>
\nJuly, 6th and 7th, 2012 at 7 and 8.30pm
\nA musical-scenic walk with instrumental and vocal music from medieval to contemporary composers with the music-ensemble Megaphon Hannover and the women\u2019s choir Femmes Vocales e.V. L\u00fcneburg
\nartistic director: Lenka \u017dupkov\u00e1
\nchoreography: Mikael Honesseau
\nchoir conductor: Imke McMurtrie
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
2011<\/strong><\/p>\nFemmes Vocales \u2013 Tutarchela (Republic of Georgia): Women\u2019s Choir Exchange<\/strong>
\n2011: The women\u2019s choir Femmes Vocales initiated this project to create international mutual understanding between Georgia and Germany through sharing traditional polyphonic songs. This project was supported by the patronage of the German Embassy in Tbilissi and the major of the City of Lueneburg. The objective was to build a bridge between two musical traditions and to enable an inspiring exchange of two very different approaches and methods of singing.
\nThe embracing of the foreign, and appreciation of one\u2019s own singing culture is a unique and practical way to international mutual understanding. Singing together has always been an excellent way to bring people together, which has unfortunately become forgotten in the face of an increasingly passive consumption of music.
\nThis musical exchange between Georgian and German women has also given the participants an insight into the different day-to-day realities of life for the women of each country.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cCanti di Guarigione\u201d \u2013 Healing Songs with the voice ethnologist Germana Giannini<\/strong>
\nSince 2006 Germana and Imke have been meeting regularly in Italy, Spain and Germany
\nfor music-ethnological exchange and concerts to experience and research the healing capacity of ethnic singing. Both singers, Germana and Imke have been studying with indigenious people and singers from many different countries to explore the significance that ethnic singing can have for us all.
\nThe sharing and transmission of the songs from different traditions is done with an attitude of utmost gratitude and respect towards the people and the culture from which they stem. It is a reverence for the Oneness of all traditions and for the experience that brought these songs to life. For people have often survived traumatic experiences, political oppression, social destruction, economic disaster, inner and outer hostility, crisis of identity and spiritual decay with the help of their singing. One can almost say that the power of song is especially appreciated and vivid in cultures where there is great suffering. Maybe singing together and listening to each other comes easier when there is nothing else to hold on to or to pretend.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cFemmes Vocales\u201d \u2013 Women\u2019s Choir Project:<\/strong><\/p>\nin Lueneburg, North-Germany since 2004, conductor Imke McMurtrie.
\nThe repertoire of the women\u2019s choir Femmes Vocales includes songs from many different cultures, traditions and creeds: happy, sad, quiet, lively, well known and unknown songs …
\nThe women of the choir don\u2019t sing to achieve perfection, but to experience and pass on the joy of song and its intercultural, social, curative\/healing and harmonising effect.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
2024 Hamburg: Songs from Home International Women’s Singing Group since 2018 every 2nd and 4th Monday in the month from 18.30 – 20.30pm in Goldbek-Haus\/Winterhude\u00a0in the frame of “Wir im Quartier\u2013 Together with Refugees” registration and further information at: … Continue reading
\nWorkshop Concert With Soloists from the Choir<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Benefiz-Concert for the Project:
\n“Therapies for traumatised children and young refugees”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n\n2015<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/h5>\nConcert in the Museum of Lueneburg<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\u201eTavis upleba \u2013 Freedom to be yourself” \u2013 A Georgian-German Choir-Project directed by Imke McMurtrie and Tamar Buadze.<\/p>\n
13. and 14. June 2015
\n27. and 28. November 2015<\/p>\n
Zeitungsartikel (PDF)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nZeitungskritik (PDF)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n\n<\/h5>\n
\n2014<\/strong><\/h5>\nConcerte “Resonanz” in The Town-Hall and The Music-School of Lueneburg<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>Jubil\u00e4umskonzerte anl\u00e4sslich des 10-j\u00e4hrigen Bestehens der Chorleitung unter Imke McMurtrie.
\n4. und 6. Juli 2014
\n
\n<\/em>(Zeitungsartikel (PDF)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u201cFemmes Vocales\u201d \u2013 Frauenchor-Projekt:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nIn L\u00fcneburg seit 2004 unter der Leitung von Imke McMurtrie
\nDie Frauen von Femmes Vocales singen Lieder aus verschiedenen Kulturen, Traditionen und Glaubensrichtungen: heitere, melancholische, ruhige, lebhafte, bekannte, ungewohnte …
\nSie singen nicht mit dem Anspruch auf Perfektion, sondern sie m\u00f6chten die Freude an der sozialen, heilsamen und harmonisierenden Seite des Singens gemeinsam erleben und weitergeben.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
2013
\n<\/strong>
\nGeorgian-German Women\u2019s Singing Project\u00a0<\/strong>
\nMusic ethnologists and singers from nine countries of Western Europe will exchange songs of their own traditions with the Georgian women\u2019s choir Tutarchela. In exchange the Georgian singers will teach songs from their own polyphonic tradition. The project will culminate in final concerts in Georgia and possibly also in the countries of the other participants. The project is supported by the patronage of the Embassies and Cultural Institutes of the participating countries.
\nRehearsals and concerts will take place in May 2013 in Tbilissi\/Georgia.
\nFor this project we are still looking for sponsorship: please contact us.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
2012<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cThe Sound of Silence\u201d, Monestary Luene in Lueneburg\/North-Germany<\/strong>
\nJuly, 6th and 7th, 2012 at 7 and 8.30pm
\nA musical-scenic walk with instrumental and vocal music from medieval to contemporary composers with the music-ensemble Megaphon Hannover and the women\u2019s choir Femmes Vocales e.V. L\u00fcneburg
\nartistic director: Lenka \u017dupkov\u00e1
\nchoreography: Mikael Honesseau
\nchoir conductor: Imke McMurtrie
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
2011<\/strong><\/p>\nFemmes Vocales \u2013 Tutarchela (Republic of Georgia): Women\u2019s Choir Exchange<\/strong>
\n2011: The women\u2019s choir Femmes Vocales initiated this project to create international mutual understanding between Georgia and Germany through sharing traditional polyphonic songs. This project was supported by the patronage of the German Embassy in Tbilissi and the major of the City of Lueneburg. The objective was to build a bridge between two musical traditions and to enable an inspiring exchange of two very different approaches and methods of singing.
\nThe embracing of the foreign, and appreciation of one\u2019s own singing culture is a unique and practical way to international mutual understanding. Singing together has always been an excellent way to bring people together, which has unfortunately become forgotten in the face of an increasingly passive consumption of music.
\nThis musical exchange between Georgian and German women has also given the participants an insight into the different day-to-day realities of life for the women of each country.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cCanti di Guarigione\u201d \u2013 Healing Songs with the voice ethnologist Germana Giannini<\/strong>
\nSince 2006 Germana and Imke have been meeting regularly in Italy, Spain and Germany
\nfor music-ethnological exchange and concerts to experience and research the healing capacity of ethnic singing. Both singers, Germana and Imke have been studying with indigenious people and singers from many different countries to explore the significance that ethnic singing can have for us all.
\nThe sharing and transmission of the songs from different traditions is done with an attitude of utmost gratitude and respect towards the people and the culture from which they stem. It is a reverence for the Oneness of all traditions and for the experience that brought these songs to life. For people have often survived traumatic experiences, political oppression, social destruction, economic disaster, inner and outer hostility, crisis of identity and spiritual decay with the help of their singing. One can almost say that the power of song is especially appreciated and vivid in cultures where there is great suffering. Maybe singing together and listening to each other comes easier when there is nothing else to hold on to or to pretend.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cFemmes Vocales\u201d \u2013 Women\u2019s Choir Project:<\/strong><\/p>\nin Lueneburg, North-Germany since 2004, conductor Imke McMurtrie.
\nThe repertoire of the women\u2019s choir Femmes Vocales includes songs from many different cultures, traditions and creeds: happy, sad, quiet, lively, well known and unknown songs …
\nThe women of the choir don\u2019t sing to achieve perfection, but to experience and pass on the joy of song and its intercultural, social, curative\/healing and harmonising effect.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
2024 Hamburg: Songs from Home International Women’s Singing Group since 2018 every 2nd and 4th Monday in the month from 18.30 – 20.30pm in Goldbek-Haus\/Winterhude\u00a0in the frame of “Wir im Quartier\u2013 Together with Refugees” registration and further information at: … Continue reading
2015<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/h5>\nConcert in the Museum of Lueneburg<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\u201eTavis upleba \u2013 Freedom to be yourself” \u2013 A Georgian-German Choir-Project directed by Imke McMurtrie and Tamar Buadze.<\/p>\n
13. and 14. June 2015
\n27. and 28. November 2015<\/p>\n
Zeitungsartikel (PDF)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nZeitungskritik (PDF)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n\n<\/h5>\n
\n2014<\/strong><\/h5>\nConcerte “Resonanz” in The Town-Hall and The Music-School of Lueneburg<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>Jubil\u00e4umskonzerte anl\u00e4sslich des 10-j\u00e4hrigen Bestehens der Chorleitung unter Imke McMurtrie.
\n4. und 6. Juli 2014
\n
\n<\/em>(Zeitungsartikel (PDF)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u201cFemmes Vocales\u201d \u2013 Frauenchor-Projekt:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nIn L\u00fcneburg seit 2004 unter der Leitung von Imke McMurtrie
\nDie Frauen von Femmes Vocales singen Lieder aus verschiedenen Kulturen, Traditionen und Glaubensrichtungen: heitere, melancholische, ruhige, lebhafte, bekannte, ungewohnte …
\nSie singen nicht mit dem Anspruch auf Perfektion, sondern sie m\u00f6chten die Freude an der sozialen, heilsamen und harmonisierenden Seite des Singens gemeinsam erleben und weitergeben.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
2013
\n<\/strong>
\nGeorgian-German Women\u2019s Singing Project\u00a0<\/strong>
\nMusic ethnologists and singers from nine countries of Western Europe will exchange songs of their own traditions with the Georgian women\u2019s choir Tutarchela. In exchange the Georgian singers will teach songs from their own polyphonic tradition. The project will culminate in final concerts in Georgia and possibly also in the countries of the other participants. The project is supported by the patronage of the Embassies and Cultural Institutes of the participating countries.
\nRehearsals and concerts will take place in May 2013 in Tbilissi\/Georgia.
\nFor this project we are still looking for sponsorship: please contact us.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
2012<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cThe Sound of Silence\u201d, Monestary Luene in Lueneburg\/North-Germany<\/strong>
\nJuly, 6th and 7th, 2012 at 7 and 8.30pm
\nA musical-scenic walk with instrumental and vocal music from medieval to contemporary composers with the music-ensemble Megaphon Hannover and the women\u2019s choir Femmes Vocales e.V. L\u00fcneburg
\nartistic director: Lenka \u017dupkov\u00e1
\nchoreography: Mikael Honesseau
\nchoir conductor: Imke McMurtrie
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
2011<\/strong><\/p>\nFemmes Vocales \u2013 Tutarchela (Republic of Georgia): Women\u2019s Choir Exchange<\/strong>
\n2011: The women\u2019s choir Femmes Vocales initiated this project to create international mutual understanding between Georgia and Germany through sharing traditional polyphonic songs. This project was supported by the patronage of the German Embassy in Tbilissi and the major of the City of Lueneburg. The objective was to build a bridge between two musical traditions and to enable an inspiring exchange of two very different approaches and methods of singing.
\nThe embracing of the foreign, and appreciation of one\u2019s own singing culture is a unique and practical way to international mutual understanding. Singing together has always been an excellent way to bring people together, which has unfortunately become forgotten in the face of an increasingly passive consumption of music.
\nThis musical exchange between Georgian and German women has also given the participants an insight into the different day-to-day realities of life for the women of each country.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cCanti di Guarigione\u201d \u2013 Healing Songs with the voice ethnologist Germana Giannini<\/strong>
\nSince 2006 Germana and Imke have been meeting regularly in Italy, Spain and Germany
\nfor music-ethnological exchange and concerts to experience and research the healing capacity of ethnic singing. Both singers, Germana and Imke have been studying with indigenious people and singers from many different countries to explore the significance that ethnic singing can have for us all.
\nThe sharing and transmission of the songs from different traditions is done with an attitude of utmost gratitude and respect towards the people and the culture from which they stem. It is a reverence for the Oneness of all traditions and for the experience that brought these songs to life. For people have often survived traumatic experiences, political oppression, social destruction, economic disaster, inner and outer hostility, crisis of identity and spiritual decay with the help of their singing. One can almost say that the power of song is especially appreciated and vivid in cultures where there is great suffering. Maybe singing together and listening to each other comes easier when there is nothing else to hold on to or to pretend.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cFemmes Vocales\u201d \u2013 Women\u2019s Choir Project:<\/strong><\/p>\nin Lueneburg, North-Germany since 2004, conductor Imke McMurtrie.
\nThe repertoire of the women\u2019s choir Femmes Vocales includes songs from many different cultures, traditions and creeds: happy, sad, quiet, lively, well known and unknown songs …
\nThe women of the choir don\u2019t sing to achieve perfection, but to experience and pass on the joy of song and its intercultural, social, curative\/healing and harmonising effect.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
2024 Hamburg: Songs from Home International Women’s Singing Group since 2018 every 2nd and 4th Monday in the month from 18.30 – 20.30pm in Goldbek-Haus\/Winterhude\u00a0in the frame of “Wir im Quartier\u2013 Together with Refugees” registration and further information at: … Continue reading
Concert in the Museum of Lueneburg<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\u201eTavis upleba \u2013 Freedom to be yourself” \u2013 A Georgian-German Choir-Project directed by Imke McMurtrie and Tamar Buadze.<\/p>\n
13. and 14. June 2015
\n27. and 28. November 2015<\/p>\n
Zeitungsartikel (PDF)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nZeitungskritik (PDF)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n\n<\/h5>\n
\n2014<\/strong><\/h5>\nConcerte “Resonanz” in The Town-Hall and The Music-School of Lueneburg<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>Jubil\u00e4umskonzerte anl\u00e4sslich des 10-j\u00e4hrigen Bestehens der Chorleitung unter Imke McMurtrie.
\n4. und 6. Juli 2014
\n
\n<\/em>(Zeitungsartikel (PDF)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u201cFemmes Vocales\u201d \u2013 Frauenchor-Projekt:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nIn L\u00fcneburg seit 2004 unter der Leitung von Imke McMurtrie
\nDie Frauen von Femmes Vocales singen Lieder aus verschiedenen Kulturen, Traditionen und Glaubensrichtungen: heitere, melancholische, ruhige, lebhafte, bekannte, ungewohnte …
\nSie singen nicht mit dem Anspruch auf Perfektion, sondern sie m\u00f6chten die Freude an der sozialen, heilsamen und harmonisierenden Seite des Singens gemeinsam erleben und weitergeben.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
2013
\n<\/strong>
\nGeorgian-German Women\u2019s Singing Project\u00a0<\/strong>
\nMusic ethnologists and singers from nine countries of Western Europe will exchange songs of their own traditions with the Georgian women\u2019s choir Tutarchela. In exchange the Georgian singers will teach songs from their own polyphonic tradition. The project will culminate in final concerts in Georgia and possibly also in the countries of the other participants. The project is supported by the patronage of the Embassies and Cultural Institutes of the participating countries.
\nRehearsals and concerts will take place in May 2013 in Tbilissi\/Georgia.
\nFor this project we are still looking for sponsorship: please contact us.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
2012<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cThe Sound of Silence\u201d, Monestary Luene in Lueneburg\/North-Germany<\/strong>
\nJuly, 6th and 7th, 2012 at 7 and 8.30pm
\nA musical-scenic walk with instrumental and vocal music from medieval to contemporary composers with the music-ensemble Megaphon Hannover and the women\u2019s choir Femmes Vocales e.V. L\u00fcneburg
\nartistic director: Lenka \u017dupkov\u00e1
\nchoreography: Mikael Honesseau
\nchoir conductor: Imke McMurtrie
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
2011<\/strong><\/p>\nFemmes Vocales \u2013 Tutarchela (Republic of Georgia): Women\u2019s Choir Exchange<\/strong>
\n2011: The women\u2019s choir Femmes Vocales initiated this project to create international mutual understanding between Georgia and Germany through sharing traditional polyphonic songs. This project was supported by the patronage of the German Embassy in Tbilissi and the major of the City of Lueneburg. The objective was to build a bridge between two musical traditions and to enable an inspiring exchange of two very different approaches and methods of singing.
\nThe embracing of the foreign, and appreciation of one\u2019s own singing culture is a unique and practical way to international mutual understanding. Singing together has always been an excellent way to bring people together, which has unfortunately become forgotten in the face of an increasingly passive consumption of music.
\nThis musical exchange between Georgian and German women has also given the participants an insight into the different day-to-day realities of life for the women of each country.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cCanti di Guarigione\u201d \u2013 Healing Songs with the voice ethnologist Germana Giannini<\/strong>
\nSince 2006 Germana and Imke have been meeting regularly in Italy, Spain and Germany
\nfor music-ethnological exchange and concerts to experience and research the healing capacity of ethnic singing. Both singers, Germana and Imke have been studying with indigenious people and singers from many different countries to explore the significance that ethnic singing can have for us all.
\nThe sharing and transmission of the songs from different traditions is done with an attitude of utmost gratitude and respect towards the people and the culture from which they stem. It is a reverence for the Oneness of all traditions and for the experience that brought these songs to life. For people have often survived traumatic experiences, political oppression, social destruction, economic disaster, inner and outer hostility, crisis of identity and spiritual decay with the help of their singing. One can almost say that the power of song is especially appreciated and vivid in cultures where there is great suffering. Maybe singing together and listening to each other comes easier when there is nothing else to hold on to or to pretend.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cFemmes Vocales\u201d \u2013 Women\u2019s Choir Project:<\/strong><\/p>\nin Lueneburg, North-Germany since 2004, conductor Imke McMurtrie.
\nThe repertoire of the women\u2019s choir Femmes Vocales includes songs from many different cultures, traditions and creeds: happy, sad, quiet, lively, well known and unknown songs …
\nThe women of the choir don\u2019t sing to achieve perfection, but to experience and pass on the joy of song and its intercultural, social, curative\/healing and harmonising effect.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
2024 Hamburg: Songs from Home International Women’s Singing Group since 2018 every 2nd and 4th Monday in the month from 18.30 – 20.30pm in Goldbek-Haus\/Winterhude\u00a0in the frame of “Wir im Quartier\u2013 Together with Refugees” registration and further information at: … Continue reading
<\/a><\/p>\n\u201eTavis upleba \u2013 Freedom to be yourself” \u2013 A Georgian-German Choir-Project directed by Imke McMurtrie and Tamar Buadze.<\/p>\n
13. and 14. June 2015
\n27. and 28. November 2015<\/p>\n
Zeitungsartikel (PDF)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Zeitungskritik (PDF)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n Concerte “Resonanz” in The Town-Hall and The Music-School of Lueneburg<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cFemmes Vocales\u201d \u2013 Frauenchor-Projekt:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n In L\u00fcneburg seit 2004 unter der Leitung von Imke McMurtrie <\/p>\n 2013 <\/p>\n 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe Sound of Silence\u201d, Monestary Luene in Lueneburg\/North-Germany<\/strong> <\/p>\n 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n Femmes Vocales \u2013 Tutarchela (Republic of Georgia): Women\u2019s Choir Exchange<\/strong> <\/p>\n \u201cCanti di Guarigione\u201d \u2013 Healing Songs with the voice ethnologist Germana Giannini<\/strong> <\/p>\n \u201cFemmes Vocales\u201d \u2013 Women\u2019s Choir Project:<\/strong><\/p>\n in Lueneburg, North-Germany since 2004, conductor Imke McMurtrie. 2024 Hamburg: Songs from Home International Women’s Singing Group since 2018 every 2nd and 4th Monday in the month from 18.30 – 20.30pm in Goldbek-Haus\/Winterhude\u00a0in the frame of “Wir im Quartier\u2013 Together with Refugees” registration and further information at: … Continue reading <\/h5>\n
\n2014<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/a>Jubil\u00e4umskonzerte anl\u00e4sslich des 10-j\u00e4hrigen Bestehens der Chorleitung unter Imke McMurtrie.
\n4. und 6. Juli 2014
\n
\n<\/em>(Zeitungsartikel (PDF)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nDie Frauen von Femmes Vocales singen Lieder aus verschiedenen Kulturen, Traditionen und Glaubensrichtungen: heitere, melancholische, ruhige, lebhafte, bekannte, ungewohnte …
\nSie singen nicht mit dem Anspruch auf Perfektion, sondern sie m\u00f6chten die Freude an der sozialen, heilsamen und harmonisierenden Seite des Singens gemeinsam erleben und weitergeben.<\/p>\n
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\nGeorgian-German Women\u2019s Singing Project\u00a0<\/strong>
\nMusic ethnologists and singers from nine countries of Western Europe will exchange songs of their own traditions with the Georgian women\u2019s choir Tutarchela. In exchange the Georgian singers will teach songs from their own polyphonic tradition. The project will culminate in final concerts in Georgia and possibly also in the countries of the other participants. The project is supported by the patronage of the Embassies and Cultural Institutes of the participating countries.
\nRehearsals and concerts will take place in May 2013 in Tbilissi\/Georgia.
\nFor this project we are still looking for sponsorship: please contact us.<\/p>\n
\nJuly, 6th and 7th, 2012 at 7 and 8.30pm
\nA musical-scenic walk with instrumental and vocal music from medieval to contemporary composers with the music-ensemble Megaphon Hannover and the women\u2019s choir Femmes Vocales e.V. L\u00fcneburg
\nartistic director: Lenka \u017dupkov\u00e1
\nchoreography: Mikael Honesseau
\nchoir conductor: Imke McMurtrie
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n2011: The women\u2019s choir Femmes Vocales initiated this project to create international mutual understanding between Georgia and Germany through sharing traditional polyphonic songs. This project was supported by the patronage of the German Embassy in Tbilissi and the major of the City of Lueneburg. The objective was to build a bridge between two musical traditions and to enable an inspiring exchange of two very different approaches and methods of singing.
\nThe embracing of the foreign, and appreciation of one\u2019s own singing culture is a unique and practical way to international mutual understanding. Singing together has always been an excellent way to bring people together, which has unfortunately become forgotten in the face of an increasingly passive consumption of music.
\nThis musical exchange between Georgian and German women has also given the participants an insight into the different day-to-day realities of life for the women of each country.<\/p>\n
\nSince 2006 Germana and Imke have been meeting regularly in Italy, Spain and Germany
\nfor music-ethnological exchange and concerts to experience and research the healing capacity of ethnic singing. Both singers, Germana and Imke have been studying with indigenious people and singers from many different countries to explore the significance that ethnic singing can have for us all.
\nThe sharing and transmission of the songs from different traditions is done with an attitude of utmost gratitude and respect towards the people and the culture from which they stem. It is a reverence for the Oneness of all traditions and for the experience that brought these songs to life. For people have often survived traumatic experiences, political oppression, social destruction, economic disaster, inner and outer hostility, crisis of identity and spiritual decay with the help of their singing. One can almost say that the power of song is especially appreciated and vivid in cultures where there is great suffering. Maybe singing together and listening to each other comes easier when there is nothing else to hold on to or to pretend.<\/p>\n
\nThe repertoire of the women\u2019s choir Femmes Vocales includes songs from many different cultures, traditions and creeds: happy, sad, quiet, lively, well known and unknown songs …
\nThe women of the choir don\u2019t sing to achieve perfection, but to experience and pass on the joy of song and its intercultural, social, curative\/healing and harmonising effect.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"