For the first full day in France, May 27th, I joined a bike tour to Monet's garden at Giverny. We met at Gare Saint-Lazare train station, sixteen in the group, took the train to Vernon where we picked up the bikes and lunch as well for a picnic along the Seine.
On the train to Giverny, six of our group briefly serenaded and awed the rest us. They were members of a large choir from Baylor, who along with professional opera singers, were in Paris to record a Requiem by composer Maurice Duruflé. The recording was being made in the Eglise Saint-Etienne-du-Mont—where Duruflé had been organist—accompanied by the same organ on which the Requiem was composed. I will look for it next year on CD.