Les poissons en France

Saturday, December 09, 2017

Braving the Dark

As qualified 'old people' we do find it a little daunting to go to events in these dark, cold winter evenings when we could stay comfortably indoors in the warm!
However yesterday evening we braved the elements to go to a concert in a church in Cahors.
The Chorale de Cahors were performing an Argentine Mass, the Misatango, with a string quintet, a bandonĂ©oniste, and the composer of the piece, Martin Palmeri, on the piano.  We have been to a similar work by another Argentinian composer, Astor Piazzolla, and we really enjoyed both the concept of using tango rhythms and also the Bandoneon, the iconic instrument of the tango sound.
We got to the church about a quarter of an hour before the start, and to our amazement the church was nearly full.  We had expected, as usual in France that most people would arrive just before it started and that it would start half an hour late!!!
The first half of the evening was a performance of Spring from  The Four Seasons: After Vivaldi
This was an instrumental work featuring the String Quintet, the bandonĂ©onist and Palmeri, the composer, on piano.  And we both loved it; very different to the Mass which was the second half of the evening, and it was great to watch the interaction between the conductor, the musicians and the choir.
It was an evening which repaid the effort to go out on a cold, dark night and sit on uncomfortable, little wooden chairs in a vast church.

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