Longing for Bergamo

I was thinking about it recently: it has been almost fifteen years since my first (and last) trip to Italy. And thinking about it made me realise: 1)that a visit is long overdue and 2)that I miss the city of Bergamo, where one of my best friends, and certainly my best Italian friend, lives. I don't know why I loved the city so much, but of all the cities I visited, it might be my favorite. I mentioned on Facebook that I was missing Bergamo and she told me we were welcomed to visit it at any time. Nice to know, although I don't know when that will be possible. Until then, I will try to brush up my Italian. And to calm my longing for Bergamo, I listen to Uccellini's take on the bergamasca, which is originally a local dance. I blogged about it here and decided to upload it again tonight to accompany this post with a bergamese melody.

Music from northern Italy

It is a beautiful spring day today. I thought I would put some springtime music here. I first heard La Bergamasca or Il Giardino Armorico by Uccellini on an Air Canada flight back to Québec, about ten years ago and I loved it so much that I wrote down on a piece of paper the title of the tune. Strangely, it is not a song but a dance. This music puts me in an Italian mind. I learned years later that a bergamasca is a dance that is originally from Bergamo. I have not seen much of Italy, only the north really, but Bergamo has been so far my favourite city there. This is where one of my best friends is from and where I would love to live. So La Bergamasca I now have a special place in my heart.