Corale Andrea Grilli - Le prove
Sirolo, Piazzetta Arrigo Gugliormella, ore 20.30,Sunday 12 July 2009
What a wonderful Le Marche!
Landing in this sea village in a summer night, under the stars shining brightly in the sky and lighting the earth up still in this period, while people are strolling along the panoramic balcony, makes you recall the Ideal Village legend. Going past the home-made ice-cream parlors, the small outdoor fish restaurants scattered along the lanes, the rotisseries selling hot Olive all’ascolana makes you forget problems and think that the possible paradise is real…
As I got in that small place to attend the rehearsal, I found a very charming woman with silver hair who was checking the arrangement of the stage and of the light-blue pit stalls distributed all over the small improvised amphitheater. I asked her which event would have taken place in that place – The Concert of Chorus Andrea Grilliwith a repertoire of musicals and gospels- I then understood I had got exactly in the place I wanted to get and I thought that lady could be the chorus’ fairy. She was in fact the person who would have sung that night with her friends.
Then, the members of the choir and Samuel, the choral director, fairly joined us in a perfect casual rehearsal dress while a young mother, a contralto singer, was taking care of her baby before getting on the stage and eventually cuddled him and take him with her…..to sing and rehearse the repertoire of that night. Now they were all ready. On the two sides of the chorus, two instrumentalists appeared, one at the keyboard and the other one at the basso, and they just played fantastically during the concert.
The rehearsal helps the chorus members warming up their voices. The soloists knew they had the capability of making the hearts of the audience quiver, an audience that expects music to lift them up. Families on holiday, friends, relative, elderly people sitting in front of their homes, tourists passing-by were all ready to receive the gift of the emotion of a midsummer night.
And finally, when the exhibition of the Chorus Andrea Grilli was announced, the members of the choir got in the dark stage, wrapped up in a sky-blue scarf. The incredible magic of this incoming show was in the air. The expectation was strongly visible within that summer cavea. People, like in a big theatre of life, found their place by sitting in the light-blue pit stalls everywhere in the dark, anxious of listening to the ensemble of voices that, together, would find their harmony to play every single piece with intensity.
The night was wonderful thanks to the passion of the singers and to the pieces that the soloists dedicated to the listeners’ hearts. What a wonderful world!
Landing in this sea village in a summer night, under the stars shining brightly in the sky and lighting the earth up still in this period, while people are strolling along the panoramic balcony, makes you recall the Ideal Village legend. Going past the home-made ice-cream parlors, the small outdoor fish restaurants scattered along the lanes, the rotisseries selling hot Olive all’ascolana makes you forget problems and think that the possible paradise is real…
As I got in that small place to attend the rehearsal, I found a very charming woman with silver hair who was checking the arrangement of the stage and of the light-blue pit stalls distributed all over the small improvised amphitheater. I asked her which event would have taken place in that place – The Concert of Chorus Andrea Grilliwith a repertoire of musicals and gospels- I then understood I had got exactly in the place I wanted to get and I thought that lady could be the chorus’ fairy. She was in fact the person who would have sung that night with her friends.
Then, the members of the choir and Samuel, the choral director, fairly joined us in a perfect casual rehearsal dress while a young mother, a contralto singer, was taking care of her baby before getting on the stage and eventually cuddled him and take him with her…..to sing and rehearse the repertoire of that night. Now they were all ready. On the two sides of the chorus, two instrumentalists appeared, one at the keyboard and the other one at the basso, and they just played fantastically during the concert.
The rehearsal helps the chorus members warming up their voices. The soloists knew they had the capability of making the hearts of the audience quiver, an audience that expects music to lift them up. Families on holiday, friends, relative, elderly people sitting in front of their homes, tourists passing-by were all ready to receive the gift of the emotion of a midsummer night.
And finally, when the exhibition of the Chorus Andrea Grilli was announced, the members of the choir got in the dark stage, wrapped up in a sky-blue scarf. The incredible magic of this incoming show was in the air. The expectation was strongly visible within that summer cavea. People, like in a big theatre of life, found their place by sitting in the light-blue pit stalls everywhere in the dark, anxious of listening to the ensemble of voices that, together, would find their harmony to play every single piece with intensity.
The night was wonderful thanks to the passion of the singers and to the pieces that the soloists dedicated to the listeners’ hearts. What a wonderful world!
The colors of a rainbow so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do
They’re really saying I love you
I hear babies crying I watch them grow
They’ll learn much more than I’ll never know
And I think to myself what a wonderful world. -
The Paradise Possible Team, July 2009
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