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Fratery paghjella practices – A biaghjinci nailed!

This is just the first verse… the complete song recording follows… but Marissa’s expression of triumph is quite satisfying.

The acoustics of the fratery [one of three churches or chapels on the I Fioretti site] were amazing, and these video recordings are among the best I have of our paghjella performances. They are also close enough to the performers to be of some help when studying them to learn the paghjellas, part by part.

Ken & Marissa, post-workshop, near Mont Blanc in the French Alps

After the great two weeks of singing, Marissa & Ken spent several days touring Provence and the French Alps. With our combined mental age of about 18, it was loads of fun.

This panorama begins with a frequently repeated element of images from our trip… Marissa’s toothy grin… and pans from its viewpoint on the southern balcony gazing over towards mighty peaks, snow fields, and glaciers.

Concert – Eglise de Campitellu – So le muntagne d’Orezza

Linda, Larry, and Asa sing Jean Etienne’s paghjella, ‘So le muntagne d’Orezza’. I recorded about 90% of the concert on my iPhone [with the tricky little monkey-grip tripod], but, alas, the iPhone ran out of battery power, truncating the recording, and, worse yet, failing to close the file properly. So it has been a trial trying to recover the individual pieces from the damaged video file. More to come in the future.

Eglise de Campitellu – U tempu di una minnana

Chloe, Lynda, and Ken sing U tempu di una minnana.

I haven’t listened carefully, but in the background of some of these Campitellu concert recordings, you can hear the birds that flew about and chirped merrily all during the concert.

The iPhone did a fair job of capturing readable video and audio under difficult circumstances… but next time I would spend more time finding a recording location 1) closer to the subjects, 2) with a good microphone, and 3) placed at a high enough angle to avoid capturing heads of the audience.