Il Coro Italiano going silent after 50 years

Date: October 9, 2012

By Kristie Pearce

WINDSOR, ON -- Behind them in homemade frames hang photos of some their most cherished memories as a choir. “We drank a lot of wine on this trip,” Paula Savio, 69, said as he pointed to a photo of 20 or so Italian men dressed in uniform and posing on a hill looking down on the St. John’s, N.L.,waterfront. “And ate the lobsters,” said choir maestro Angelo Nadalin, 82.

Besides singing for Queen Elizabeth II that trip in 1997, the Windsor immigrant choir, named Il Coro Italiano, performed for a crowd of 5,000, whale watched in the Atlantic Ocean and sang to complete strangers in pizza parlours and in the streets.

Savio and Nadalin agreed during an interview Sunday in Savio’s basement that singing in Newfoundland for the 500th anniversary celebration of Giovanni Caboto’s arrival in Canada was one of the choir’s proudest moments.

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