In French, love songs

 Les Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal, the official choir of the Oratory Saint-Joseph in Montreal, presented a concert of French Canadian religious and secular music at St. Ann’s Art & Cultural Center in Woonsocket yesterday. Above, musical director and choirmaster Gilbert Patenaude conducts one of his original pieces ” Trois chants de Lumière. “

At right, Zacharie LeGault sings out the ” Hymn to Freedom, ” by Oscar Peterson. The choir, consisting of 180 boys age 9 through 17, will be at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Providence on Sunday.

Photos / Bob Thayer