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AFS MEMBERS' HELP SOUGHT IN HOUSING FRENCH BOYS' CHOIR ON AUGUST TOUR
Alliance Française de Sarasota will help support
the Southeastern U.S. concert tour of “Les Moineaux du Val de Marne,”
a boys' choir during August. AFS members will be asked to provide home
hospitality for a minimum of two boys for the nights of Aug. 12 and 13, plus
some transportation and meals. Twenty homes will be needed. If you can volunteer,
please contact AFS Board Member Didier Bégat at (941) 538-3630 or begatdj@earthlink.net.`
Its Sarasota concert will be at St. Michael the
Archangel Catholic Church on Siesta Key. It will be free, with donations
accepted.
The choir was founded in 1953 in
Nogent-sur-Marne and was originally called “Les Moineaux de Beaute Plaisance”
after the two districts of Nogent, Beaute and Plaisance. Later the name was
changed to reflect the broader area its members represent. (The name “Moineaux”refers
to the old fief“le Moyneau,”and is also a symbol for “le
gamin de Paris,”witty, sympathetic and cheerful.
In 1955, according to the choir's
concert tour brochure, it became a member of the international federation “Pueri
Cantores.” The French federation consists of about 140 choirs with 5,000
singers.
The tour brochure is posted on the web
site. To read it, click here.
Les Moineaux
updated 12 May
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