Da Pacem Domine July 10

In order to get to know people in the community, Audrey has joined a choir which is made up of parents and children of a local music school.  The school's end of year concert was at a 19th century quinta (farmhouse buildings) and after the children performed, we sang several medieval songs while standing on the stone steps with the audience sitting or standing around the courtyard.

We started with Da Pacem Domine, using the four corners of the courtyard. Sopranos on the lower steps, altos at the top of one set of stone steps, tenors in the opposite corner in a small stone balcony, and basses below in the 4th corner.
 This picture shows the Contraltos "bem no alto" or we altos singing from on high...you know, it's very tricky to translate a play on words in another language! I am hidden in the back row in front of the window.

 

Although a large tree in the middle (enormous white flowers--anyone know it's name?) made it so you couldn't see everything, the acoustics were great. Lovely evening under a clear sky.

And we had fun with an song about a cricket or el Grillo. You can see and hear it by clicking here.