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Why were the Concerts Spirituels held on religious festival days?
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The universality and innate nature of music, and the pentatonic scale, as demonstrated by singer Bobby McFerrin.
The Concerts Spirituels were held on religious festival days because the Opéra was closed on those occasions. By scheduling these public concerts during times when the opera house was prohibited from performing, organizer Anne Danican Philidor was able to provide musical entertainment to the public while navigating the existing performance restrictions of the time.1