Article about the Singalong concert by San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, on November 28th, 2021
including 2 video excerpts, Caccini’s Ave Maria and Haendel’s Where’er you walk.
Let’s sing Christmas in Rome
Once upon a time was my Irish friend’s wedding in Rome… We are in April 2019. I am alone walking towards Piazza Navona, when a facade suddenly catches my attention. I step back, I get in, I avoid the crowd, I see the organ. Immediately a concert project is born. I am in…. San Luigi dei…. Francesi! 🙂
Two and a half years later, I am therefore delighted to invite you to a Christmas Singalong at
San Luigi dei Francesi
Saturday 27 November 2021
at 5:00 pm
Free participation to expenses
As a good expat, I import the anglo-saxon tradition of singalongs in Italy but also the French tradition of free concerts with a free participation to expenses. As you know, I am attached to giving free access to music 🙂
Special thanks to Enzo Iorio for the beautiful photographies and to the Paris boutique of Flamant for its gorgeous Christmas trees.
Murat murmured…
An old saying goes that Un jour un mur mura Murat and Murat murmura… (murmured). So indeed on the night of October 30th, eve of Halloween… the organs and myself murmured some notes of fear and joy 😉 Nicolas and I were indeed delighted to have you embark on a journey “From fear to joy” in Murat’s Notre-Dame des Oliviers (in Cantal).
The word about the concert spread at the speed of light on social media (thanks a lot to Nathalie, Cathy, Marie-Noëlle, Lyne, i tutti amici who relay the info) yet I was away from my laptop, hence this late article.
Thank you all for this very warm welcome. Truth be told, I ended up being too warm in my St. Petersburg-like dress!
If you haven’t yet read it, please find here our portrait with Nicolas in the Oct. 29th edition of the Réveil cantalien (thank you Stéphane Briant for the 2-hour interview).
From fear to joy
Hello dear friends,
let’s meet next Friday 13 (ha!) August for a lovely time on the theme “From fear to… joy!” Among Covid and all uncertainties we have been facing these past months, rollercoasters of lockdowns et al., that is a theme that will speak to all of us 🙂
To be joyful, let’s meet indeed for our annual catch-up in Saint-Flour:
- Saint-Pierre Cathedral
- 13 August 2021
- 8:00pm sharp
- Free participation
- Entrance by the lateral door facing the Tourist Office
- Respect of sanitary rules compulsory (pass, PCR test)
Since last April, I have been working on a programme full of musical – and non-musical – surprises (Friday 13th 😉 )
Haendel, Purcell, Schubert, Fauré, Nat K. Cole, Kurt Weill… VOILA!
Tribute to Notre Dame
Dear friends,
today is two years that Notre-Dame dramatically underwent that huge fire and I wished to share with you, today, my emotion and prayer to Our Lady.
I therefore share a few Ave Marias (Franck, Cherubini, Caccini) with you today.
Ave Maria, Giulio Caccini
Ave Maria, César Franck
Ave Maria, Luigi Cherubini
On this January 34th…
About a year that we’re going through Groundhog Day so on this January 34th, 2021 I am delighted to send you my best wishes for this new year!
Music has been key to putting up with the latest challenges and I wish you plenty more to keep rocking.
Most sincerely yours,
Marie-Hélène
To your crayons, ready, go!
As promised here is the higher resolution version of the picture to colour for the concert 🙂 Indeed, colour the concert poster, bring it and it shall be put up for display at the beginning of the concert. Counting on you… and your children!
Download PDF here. Marie-Helene Cussac SingingCarols-JoyeuxNoel
Christmas Singalong
Now let’s meet in my beloved Cantal to sing… together 🙂
Christmas arias and other Christmas traditional tunes to sing together.
Villedieu church (Saint-Flour)
22 December 2020, 5:00 pm
with… your masks
Free contribution to costs
Singalong Galerie Vivienne in Paris!
Dear Parisian friends & Paris visitors,
see you in the most beautiful of Paris galleries, Galerie Vivienne (Paris, IInd) to dive into the Christmas magic these coming Saturdays from 5:30pm onwards. Christmas arias &…. Christmas carols to sing together 🙂
Upcoming concerts
Did you say lockdown? Sorry can’t hear…!
It is indeed time to add colour to the current blue moods.
Join us, online or on-site 🙂
- 22 November 2020, 4pm: Roffiac – garden concert broadcast live on Facebook
- 5 & 12 December 2020, 5:30pm: Paris…. ♥ Christmassy SURPRISE ♥