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St. Louis French Festival Flavors February’s Chapter Meeting
| Date: | Monday March 1, 2010 |
| Event: | Lynne Davis Recital/Lecture |
| Location: | St. Louis Cathedral Basilica 4431 Lindell Blvd |
| Time: | 6:30 Dinner (Boland Hall cafeteria behind cathedral, Newstead and Maryland) 7:30 Program (Enter sanctuary through west doors off parking lot between school and cathedral) |
| Host: | John Romeri |
| Cost: | $10 for dinner - Pay now (+ $.50 for online payments) |
| Reservations: | Kathleen Bolduan (314-725-1251 or
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This month the STLAGO observes the St. Louis French Festival with organist Lynne Davis. Lynne will play and discuss the Suite on the Second Tone by Louis Nicholas Clerambault. The event takes place at the St. Louis
Cathedral Basilica and begins with a dinner at 6:30 p.m.
This program is one of three programs that she will present as part of the St. Louis French Festival, a celebration of our city’s rich French cultural and artistic heritage. The festival includes lectures on French music, art, and architecture, concerts of French music, tours of the St. Louis Art Museum’s French collections, a special tour of the Cathedral Basilica, French wine and cheese tastings, and a theatrical presentation on the French roots of St. Louis.
Lynne’s additional programs include: Friday, Feb. 26, at 7:30 p.m. — a lecture on the architecture and stained glass of Chartres Cathedral. The lecture takes place at the Missouri History Museum. It will be followed by a
wine and cheese reception. The lecture is free. The reception costs $25. Reservations for the reception can be made through the St. Louis Cathedral Basilica. On Sunday, Feb. 28, at 2:30 p.m., Lynne will appear in recital at the St. Louis Cathedral Basilica. Tickets are $12.
Lynne Davis graduated with honors from the University of Michigan where she studied with Robert Clark. She studied in France with Marie-Claire Alain, Jean Langlais, Maurice and Marie-Madeleine Duruflé and Edouard Souberbielle. For over 30 years she has lived in France. She married Frenchman and Chartres International Organ Competition founder, Pierre Firmin-Didot. Both were very influential in the French organ music
scene and initiated the celebrated 1992 exhibition and recording of Les Orgues de Paris. She holds the Certificat d’Aptitude de Professeur d’Orgue from the French government. She has held positions as professor of organ at the Conservatory of Music in Clamart, and the French National Regional Conservatory in Caen. She was recently appointed associate professor of organ, holding the Ann and Dennis Ross Endowed Faculty of
Distinction chair, at Wichita State University. She has appeared as a recitalist in Europe and North America.
— Henry Evans