2023-09-02 23:25:35
In order to raise public awareness of religious heritage, the Saint-Christophe-d’Arthabaska church participates in Religious Heritage Days.
Come and discover the inner heart of the organ, its functioning, the romantic and harmonic possibilities of a Casavant.
In the “Quebec Sistine”, two organists, Hugo Baril and Luc Laramée, will present pieces chosen to highlight the various internal components.
You will hear regarding its console, its blower, its mahogany wood windchest, its metal and wood piping, its oak wood sideboard, its drones, its flutes, its viols, its oboes, its horns, its cellos and even of his “human voices”.
Its construction took a year. On May 18, 1941, the Casavant organ series number 1669 was inaugurated with the oratorio Mariae Gloriae, for choir and organs, a work by music doctor Arthur Charlebois, a composer who had been blind since the age of 14.
This work was the first world composition on the life of the Virgin. His visual handicap did not prevent him from becoming a great musician. The note “Grande distinction” was awarded to him as part of his doctoral studies.
He taught over 400 young people in the region.
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