Music

Some of my favorite moments here so far have related to music. 

I love the sound of Italian.  The language itself is very musical.  Just walking around and hearing people speak to each other is like listening to a duet sometimes.

While we were in St. Mark’s Square, we heard the bells ring.  It was a lovely deep resonant sound that was echoed and intensified by the stone walls of the church and the square.  Later that night at dinner we also heard church bells chime.  It’s such a nice way to mark the passage of the day.

Today we went to the Island of Moreno.  The glass was beautiful in it’s own way but much of it is too elaborate and decorated for my taste. Interesting  to see. 

We wandered through the streets and ended up in a very residential area at one point. We stepped in to a church only to find it filled with several groups of children (looked like school groups) who were singing a song along with the priest.  The song had arm gestures that went along with it so it was really sweet to see them singing and dancing as they sang ‘hallelujah’ and other words I didn’t recognize.

Tomorrow night we plan to go to a classical music concert after dinner (Vivaldi, I think, and some others).