The featured image captures the moment when the wedding photographers’ barrage had just ceased, at 6.21 pm.
Now relaxed, the wedding party was about to descend the steps from the cathedral to Amalfi’s town square.
As you’ll see in this series’ final chapter, by this point, even a lot of the square’s many tourists had become benignly infected by the occasion.
Musical bonus
The piece is neither Italian nor “Italianate”, and its graciously-solemn mood does not match that of this series’ event.
Abdullah Ibrahim’s “The Wedding” is, however, one of the loveliest wedding-themed pieces.
Its South African composer/pianist Abdullah Ibrahim has recorded multiple versions, and it has been a staple of his “live” performances since the 1970s.
Generally reckoned South Africa’s most significant jazz artist, Abdullah Ibrahim is still musically active. (born Adolph Johannes Brand on 9 October 1934, he was formerly known as “Dollar Brand”)
I especially love the version on his 1986 album Water From An Ancient Well.
Alto saxophonist Carlos Ward is, effectively, the song’s lead “vocalist”:
However, my favourite interpreters of this piece are a singular, “unlikely” Norwegian duo.
Their duo was short-lived, I think, but tuba and bass trumpet virtuoso Daniel Herskedal and saxophonist Marius Neset have, separately, done many good things in the years since this September 2012 concert performance:
Here’s one of Daniel Herskedal’s loveliest creations, complete with an extraordinarily beautiful video:
In the “low brass” department, Daniel Herskedal is, I think, the current world’s most deeply musical exponent.
Herskedal was the only musician on his 2020 album; he has recently recorded a sequel. Call For Winter II: Resonance can be ordered, here.
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