Escapade musicale aux chandelles

Discovery

Venue of the event

• Départ en bus de la gare de Sélestat

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Description

The Val d'Argent Tourist Office, in partnership with the Festival aux Chandelles, offers you a unique cultural and sensory experience: an immersive day in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, combining heritage, crafts, artistic encounters and an exceptional concert.

Easy departure - 1:30 pm: departure from Strasbourg station (Lufthansa 3 stop - Boulevard de Metz) / 2:15 pm: stop at Sélestat station

Return transport by tourist coach included, so you can enjoy the day to the full.

Visit to the Argasol soap factory: discover local know-how
Visit the Parc Tellure - silver mine, an emblematic site of Alsace's mining heritage, for a fascinating immersion in the valley's underground history. Includes: one-hour guided tour of the St-Jean Engelsbourg mine.
Chat with composer Didier Rotella over a packed lunch of local produce and a glass of wine. Menu: Small salad (green salad, tomato, corn, seeds) Ham sandwich, crudités, local tomme - Farmhouse yoghurt (vegetarian option available on request at least 8 days in advance to tourisme@valdargent.com)
Candlelight concert - Un grand sommeil noir - Ensemble Cairn / 8pm, Saint-Pierre-sur-l'Hâte church. Ensemble Cairn and singer Clara Barbier-Serrano propose a nocturnal journey into that great black sleep, through music and poetry that have explored the edges of sleep, the one that takes us far away, the one that sometimes refuses to. The music in this concert takes us from the end of the 19th century, from Guillaume Lekeu's 1892 Nocturne to Didier Rotella's Insomnie, a piece written for Ensemble Cairn to a text by poet Brigitte Athéa, commissioned by the Festival aux Candelles. Seating included in the Citrine category and on the parterre level.
And this great black sleep is also Verlaine's beautiful poem (Dormez, tout espoir, dormez toute envie), which was set to music several times at the dawn of the 20th century, respectively by Maurice Ravel (1895), Edgar Varèse (1906) and Igor Stravinsky (1910). These different versions are featured throughout the concert, in new versions proposed by composers Alexandre Jamar, Jérôme Combier and Didier Rotella for a small ensemble of six musicians.