It is 6am and I am sitting on the
plane ready for take-off from Perth to Auckland, only to be told by the captain
that “one person has decided not to join us for the flight”, so they started to off load luggage. Some 5 minutes later the captain informed us
that the person “has now decided to join us after all!” so there was more waiting while the luggage
was put back on the plane!
My eyes are red and scratchy from
2 hours of interrupted sleep before leaving for the airport, but I can’t
complain because I have just come home from my last PIAF performance for
2016. It was Apocrifu at the Heath
Ledger Theatre, a venue which is a joy in itself and which up until a couple of
weeks ago, I had not visited. I have now
viewed 3 performances there, almost in the same seat each time!
Apocrifu was a wondrous
combination of dance, puppetry and the glorious singing of A Filleta, an all-male
a cappella singing group from Corsica, singing the traditional polyharmonies of
their heritage. The singing is very reminiscent
of Georgian polyharmonies, with a bit of church choral chord resolution at the
endings. A Filleta refers to a kind of fern growing on Corsica.
Apocrifu was an amazing, exciting, exhilarating
performance.
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