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Dear friends,
We prefer to bring you not only ”lovely” songs, but a repertoire of “Real” songs which will enable you to understand our traditions.
All the melodies have been collected, live, from People who live in the Canavese.
The testimonies recorded have been kept in the archives of the Ethnological Centre of the Canavese, an organization founded by the Bajolese Choir with the aim of preserving the verbal testimony of our ancestors.
Finding the soul, sentiments and life of our People has allowed us to become aware of the values contained within the inheritance left to us.
By bringing you these songs we hope to embark on a road with you, which will enable us to understand your daily life, knowing that every ethnic group has values which are worth knowing about.
More than with words we put our trust in songs, so that you can take part in our traditions.
It is, therefore, through song that we wish to get to know you and start up a new friendship.
The Bajolese Choir is made up of about twenty male voices and only one female voice. This is not a strange coincidence, but a happy alliance which allows us to “represent the songs” where dialogue between man and woman becomes the pivotal point of the whole story.
Right from the beginning the Group has set itself the task of collecting and re-proposing traditional folk songs from the Canavese. Costantino Nigra, both a distinguished ethnographer and diplomat in the Italian Risorgimento, from area, laid down the lines of modern ethno-musical research, and following on from his experience we set out, tape-recorder in hand, to immortalize the voices of our members in absolute authenticity.
Our motto is to acquire ever more information, because by doing so we are with the People, the only real trustee of folk-lore.
Amerigo Vigliermo, choirmaster
september 2003
Amerigo Vigliermo, choirmaster
september 2003
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