Diversity of Voices II - Singing the Forum

In 2024, the Diversity of Voices choir festival will revolve around the annual theme Blown Away: The Palace of the Republic. You will hear pop hits, chorales, pop songs, hymns, folk songs, ballads and fugues at various locations in the Forum: in exhibitions, stairwells and in the large foyer.

As a highlight, all the choirs – around 200 voices – will gather twice a day in the galleries of the large foyer to sing together from all sides. Admission is free.For Diversity of Voices II, the choirs have focused on the Humboldt Forum and specifically on the 2024 annual theme Blown Away: The Palace of the Republic. This has resulted in short programs that creatively combine the respective choir repertoire with the building and the current special exhibition.

During their joint performances in the large foyer, the eight choirs will sing three new songs specially arranged for the occasion, which approach the Palace of the Republic from different perspectives: Albatros by Karat, Paradiesvögel by Silly and Sonderzug nach Pankow by Udo Lindenberg.

On both days, you, the visitors, are invited to take part in spontaneous workshops on the topics of circle singing and body percussion.“Choral singing evokes immediate emotions when you listen to it. With this in mind, we invited all choirs to devote themselves to the complex themes of German-German history discussed in the current special exhibition on the Palace of the Republic and to reflect on them in their concerts,” says Anna-Lena Bolz, artistic director of the second Vielstimmig edition.

Dramaturge Kaspar von Erffa adds: “The diversity of the selected approaches surprised and inspired us. And despite all the differences, there is ultimately always one level on which all the choirs very quickly come together: the joy of singing together!”

A co-operation with the Chorverband Berlin: The Chorverband Berlin e.V. is the largest amateur music organization in the capital and the most important forum for Berlin’s amateur choir scene. With its diverse activities as a professional association, organizer and sponsor, it provides intensive basic, popular and youth work and creates the necessary conditions for top performances from its own ranks.

Program Sat, 16 November 2024