The 2014 program of Sacred Voices, Pathways of Freedom

Labeled for the seventieth anniversary of the Landing and the Battle of Normandy, the festival "Sacred voices, roads of freedom" announced seven concerts from June 14 to 20 in places linked to 1944. The program brought together French and foreign professional artists and reserved an important place for young performers, presented as bearers of a path to peace. Aperitif concerts and conferences completed the event.

On Saturday, June 14, at 6:30 p.m., the choir of the St. George's Anglican Church in Paris was expected at the church of Arromanches for an English program from the 16th and 17th centuries: Gibbons, Byrd, Bennett and Morley. On Sunday 15, at 5 p.m., the Maîtrise des Pays de Loire was to perform at the church of Vierville, with Vivaldi's Gloria, Bach's sixth cantata and Charpentier's Nisi Dominus.

On Monday, June 16, the Petit Chœur de l'Orphéon offered at 7:30 p.m., at the Château de Creully, an aperitif-concert of songs about peace. At 8:45 p.m., Stéphane Chmelewsky, former diplomat and secretary general of Franz Stock's friends, was to give a lecture on Abbé Franz Stock's path to Europe, the birth of the European idea and its role in peace and exchanges between peoples.

On Tuesday 17, the Port-en-Bessin festival hall hosted an aperitif-concert of the Big Band of Bayeux at 7:30 p.m. At 8:45 p.m., Étienne Marie-Orleach, doctor in contemporary history, was to evoke the daily life of the French during the Second World War, the Landing and the aftermath of the Liberation through testimonies. For these two evenings, participants could bring their picnic.

On Wednesday 18, at 8:45 p.m., Mylène Bourbeau, soprano, Émilie Mory, violinist, and a Canadian baroque ensemble were announced at the church of Graye-sur-Mer for cantatas by Clérambault and Jacquet de la Guerre. On Thursday 19, at the same time, the children's choir of Paderborn Cathedral was to sing in Isigny-sur-Mer: Gregorian, Palestrina, de Lassus, Mendelssohn, Bruckner and Duruflé. The baroque ensemble Les Voyageurs closed the program on Friday 20 at 8:45 p.m., at the church of Crépon.

Concerts were offered at ten euros, or eight euros from three purchases, with a reduced rate of six euros, especially for members of the ADTLB and Omaha Bedford, beneficiaries of the RSA, unemployed and students. Under the age of fifteen were welcomed free of charge. Aperitifs-concerts and conferences were free, with free participation. Reservations were then made with the ADTLB at 02 31 22 17 44.

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