FLEAS & FLOWERS, FIGURES & FOLKSONGS

Voices for the Future
VIRTUAL CHOIR PROJECT
Figures & Folksongs: Jan 25th – March 8th 2022
Fleas & Flowers: March 22nd – April 12th 2022

Featuring Miriam Rothschild (1908-2005) Entomologist and Conservationist and Alice de Rothschild (1847-1922) Garden Designer and Horticulturalist; the Queen of the Sciences, Mary Somerville (1780-1872) Mathematician, Astronomer and Artist, and Ada Lovelace (1815 – 1852) Mathematician. We kick off on Burn’s Night (Jan 25th) with some of the poet’s famous songs arranged by Scottish composer Helen Hopekirk  (1856 – 1945).

We have regular Tuesday sessions at 6.30pm and a number of special events.
You can catch up with missed sessions on videos below each week and download word sheets, music scores and sound files as they become available.

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NEXT SESSIONS

• SPECIAL EVENT: Sunday April 10th 3.30 – 5pm Dress Rehearsal for Zoom Concert
• SPECIAL EVENT: Monday April 11th 7pm Voices for the Future – Women’s Nature – a ZOOM concert with singers from the Young Singers Programme (log in from 6pm)
• PLENARY: Tuesday April 12th – Our final meeting until later in the year (we hope!) to discuss how we want to proceed!

Please scroll down for tracks, words & music for these sessions:

VOCAL EXERCISE NO. 1!
We are the  Voices for the Future VIRTUAL CHOIR
We are the  Voices for the Future VIRTUAL CHOIR
We sound AMA……..ZING
Every note in tune!
Can you hear us, Can you hear us
OH I think we’re on mute
We’re right off the scale……….

Scroll down for past sessions, practice tracks and catch up videos for this project:

• SPECIAL EVENT March 8th 7pm: International Women’s Day Zoom Concert – Song & Stories from The Somerville Connection click here to find out more
• SPECIAL EVENT March 7th 7 – 9pm: Rehearsal & Dress Run for tomorrow’s Zoom Concert