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The Vacadélys choir from Pouancé (Maine-et-Loire) is trying to regain its momentum before flying to New York in 2023. (© Haut-Anjou)
After the big disappointment from the trip finally postponed mars 2020, Vocadélys vocal ensemble gradually regaining good habits.
The group of choristers whose members come from Pouance (Maine-et-Loire), Laval, Chateaubriant or Angers mostly repeats Pouancé, delegated commune of Ombrée-d’Anjou. For the project of New Yorkit should materialize in 2023.
We have to resume
And after these long years of covidhe picks up on good basics. “We need to find a color and certain automatisms”, underlines Pierre-Olivier Bigot who directs the whole.
“And we must also find concert venuesbut it is not necessarily obvious after a long break. »
Pour continue the workthe set seeks to stretch out a bit.
We would need to recruit tenors. We are fifteen at the moment. The ideal would be to find two to have a balanced desk.
in 2023
The big project that the choristers keep in mind remains of course New York. As a reminder, Vocadelys was to perform at Alice Tully Hallone of the new york music templesin mars 2020. The Pouancé Choir was to be the only one to represent France.
“But one week before departure, the Covid stopped us in our tracks. Donald Trump was closing borders at that time…”, recalls Pierre-Olivier Bigot alongside the president of the association, Nathalie Martineau.
But that’s only postponed ! The date of a concert and 2023 se profile.
“And in the meantime, as we had planned to do before the health crisis, we are organizing a donor concert Sunday, September 25, 2022 around Segre “, detail the members of Vocadélys.
We will do a concert offered to those who have supported us financially to be able to participate in this beautiful project in New York. And the rest of the places will be put on sale for the interested public.
Concerts
Until then, other projects prepare themselves. Tuesday, May 3, 2022next to three other vocal groupsthe choir offered a charity concert for the benefit of Ukrainein Segre.
And with this event in common with The Two Hills, In Capella et the choir of Notre-Dame d’Orveaufrom new ideas emerge.
Work together
“We say to ourselves that we could perhaps work together more often, to organize other concerts for example. We each have our repertoire, our colors and our identity,” says Nathalie Martineau.
Another significant project: put on a choral work et orchestra around Mozart’s requiempour fin 2023, early 2024.
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