Finally got around to processing my iPhone videos from this 2010 Village Harmony session at St. Benedict’s Lodge, McKenzie River, Oregon, located on the McKenzie River at the edge of the Willamette National Forest. These videos capture review rehearsals, with cheerful informality, teacher corrections, and only modest performance ambition.
It’s a lovely stroll down memory lane to see all your happy faces and hear your voices again.
“Kiwi Fruit” a playful, cheerful round celebrating the signature fruit of New Zealand.
Kiwi Fruit
It’s the fruit that makes you cute
Kiwi, kiwi,kiwi is the key
Kiwi, kiwi, you and me
It’s kiwi, kiwi, kiwi, kiwi fruit
There are lots of tiny seeds on the inside
Lots of tiny hairs on the outside
Oh… how… I love my kiwi fruit
Ki…wi…ii… kiwi-kiwi-ay
You and me and ki…wi… fru-uit
Tsapiruz [‘Sapphire’]
Windy Ridge – a Sacred Harp song of recent composition
“My former hopes are fled / My terrors now begin…”
“Vengeance at the door… I’ll gaze upon it as I run…”
Psalm 33 – “Let All the Just” – English West Gallery – early 19th C
Manana… “Love makes me feel bad”
Meaning:
Love makes me feel bad.
I hate her.
I break her heart!
What can I do?
Maybe I can love her again?
And, again…
Love will make me feel bad AGAIN!
The Day of Resurrection – sacred Georgian song
Imeruli qanuri – Imereti worksong
Divided into two choirs. With charming yodeling.
Ut’us lashkruli – Georgian song celebrating 19th century peasant uprising led by Ut’us against Czarist rule
Initially, Malkhaz told us we had sung lustily enough to defeat an army of chickens. However, as we warmed to our task, we said we might have defeated tanks. Maybe.
Patty, Larry, Malkhaz singing at the Supra Feast