5200 people attend international festival of sacred music
Published: Sunday, Jul 7th 2024, 17:50
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5,200 people attended the 20th International Festival of Sacred Music in Fribourg this year. According to the organizers, the event, which is co-organized by the French-speaking Swiss radio station RTS, is the festival with the widest radio coverage in the world.
With 5,200 visitors, the festival once again reached the pre-Covid audience interest, the organizers write in the final communiqué. The majority of the 16 concerts were sold out. These were broadcast directly on the RTS Espace 2 channel or directly or with a time delay on other SRG channels and in many countries of the European Broadcasting Union.
Two compositions were performed as world premieres at the festival: "The World Grown Dark" by Italian composer Stefano Gervasoni and "Es lärmt das Licht" by Polish composer Agata Zubel.
For the first time, the audience was able to listen to the music in a dome-like "Dôme" in front of the church of St. Michael's College, where the concerts take place. It housed a sound system with 32 loudspeakers on three levels, which, according to the organizers, reproduced "immersive music" in a "3D sound".
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