80th anniversary of the Landing. In Montebourg, the festivities will begin on May 30

The municipalities are preparing the festivities for the 80th anniversary of the landing.

Jean-Pierre Mauquest, the mayor of Montebourg (Manche), presented a first program which he carried out with members of the council.

“To start, we will ask traders to be able to decorate their window in the colors of the 80th anniversary “.

The town will be decorated and in front of the town hall will be installed reproductions of photos on canvas. This event will allow everyone, to participate in the festivities in their own way, whether residents, schools, visitors.

From May 30, 2024

Activities will begin on Thursday May 30, 2024 with the campus who will settle on the Dr-Louis-Le-Cacheux stadium. he will be present until Monday June 10, 2024.

The public will be able to discover the camp and interact with those present. In the old tourist office, the main street and in the media library, it will be set up there a photo exhibition.

Thursday June 6, 2024

Students from Tiphaigne-de la-Roche college will attend a concert which will be given in the Saint-Jacques church during the afternoon.

” It is Different trains for string quartet and soundtrack by Steve Reich. This expresses all the solidarity and compassion that the composer feels for the Jews deported by train during the Second World War,” explains the mayor.

Steve Reich was born in New York on October 3, 1936, he is considered one of the pioneers of minimalist music.

Concerning the work which won the Grammy Award in 1989, it relates in parallel, the experience of the young Steve Reich traveling by train from New York to Los Angeles between 1939 and 1942, to visit his divorced parents, with the memory of the deportees from Europe transported by train to concentration camps.

He implies that if he had lived in Europe at that time, as Jewish, these are these “ very different trains » which he probably should have taken. In this very moving piece, the composer alternates sound effects evoking trains (sirens, screeches), music And recordings family and historical testimonies.

Still on Thursday June 6, 2024, but this time in the evening, still in the Saint-Jacques church, this concert will be presented again and will be open to the entire public.

Friday June 7, 2024

At 14 hoursschool students accompanied by their teachers will discover the photo exhibition of the media library and the old tourist office. And at 2:30 p.m., they will go to discover three historic sites of the Battle of Montebourg in the presence of witnesses from 44.

“They will end with a visit to the US camp at Dr-Louis-Le-Cacheux stadium and the students will be given a souvenir pencil,” explained the mayor.

Saturday June 8, 2024

“For this day, we would like that the people are in period clothing », Specified Mayor Jean-Pierre Mauquest.

15 hours, a ceremony will take place at the town hall in the presence of witnesses from 44. Commemorative medals will be presented there.

At 4 p.m., the public will be able to meet in front of the town hall to listen a concert that will be given by the “Die Walheimer Big Band” group of musicians who come from Walheim in Germany twinned with Montebourg.

And at 5 p.m., the entire population, whether from Montebourg, the surrounding area or further afield, is invited to participate in the ceremony which will take place at the monument of the 4th American Infantry Division in the presence of American forces, military music and perhaps soldiers from Belgium.

From our correspondent Claudine KEMPF

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