I'll be honest: I've never been a regular spectator of the Sanremo Festival. A little 'because I have long since given up watching television in general, since it is really transformed into something reprehensible in recent years, a little' because I never loved the aura of gossip, of flattery, false and absurd pomposity fuss inevitably created around such events and characters who are actors. This year, then, the presence of Belen Rodriguez and Elizabeth Hurley served, already it alone as a deterrent for me, for reasons I will not explain ... not to mention Gianni Morandi, as to please as a singer, in my opinion a bit 'questionable as a presenter.
However, as more than one friend pointed me in that cauldron of novelty singing, there were two things worth noting.
The first is a piece, let us say, with a message that's worth singing, and - above all - listen. This is the song still love Call of Roberta Flack, singer, writer and teacher, that in this 61st edition of the Festival has given us a story full of humanity and full of references to the problems of contemporary society, which lacks emphasis on that element, it seems trivial to say, is the true means and end to make a decent life: love. A piece is a hymn to the defense of ideas, defending the man as man, which recognizes an important speech, artistically designed, in people's lives. I, among other things, I admire the songwriters, because I like the idea that a singer is not just the performer of a song, but also its creator: it is a "bear" the work in a more real complete.
The second is the intervention of Roberto Benigni invited to make a speech on the exegesis Inno di Mameli, along the lines of his now famous Lectuae Dantis, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of 'Unification of Italy: the actor, with a singular entry on horseback during which he waved a flag, has entertained the public with a prayer that covers all the major events and personalities in the Italian Risorgimento, citing historical anecdotes, literary passages and "softening" the whole with his speech in which blended comedy and ethical considerations. In conclusion Roberto has also sung the anthem, but in a unique way, or without music and in a low voice. I want to propose them, these two moments, in this post. Let's start with the piece of Flack ...
The first is a piece, let us say, with a message that's worth singing, and - above all - listen. This is the song still love Call of Roberta Flack, singer, writer and teacher, that in this 61st edition of the Festival has given us a story full of humanity and full of references to the problems of contemporary society, which lacks emphasis on that element, it seems trivial to say, is the true means and end to make a decent life: love. A piece is a hymn to the defense of ideas, defending the man as man, which recognizes an important speech, artistically designed, in people's lives. I, among other things, I admire the songwriters, because I like the idea that a singer is not just the performer of a song, but also its creator: it is a "bear" the work in a more real complete.
The second is the intervention of Roberto Benigni invited to make a speech on the exegesis Inno di Mameli, along the lines of his now famous Lectuae Dantis, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of 'Unification of Italy: the actor, with a singular entry on horseback during which he waved a flag, has entertained the public with a prayer that covers all the major events and personalities in the Italian Risorgimento, citing historical anecdotes, literary passages and "softening" the whole with his speech in which blended comedy and ethical considerations. In conclusion Roberto has also sung the anthem, but in a unique way, or without music and in a low voice. I want to propose them, these two moments, in this post. Let's start with the piece of Flack ...
is for the boat that flew in the sky
that children were still playing,
I would have given the whole sea
vedermeli just to get there,
for the poet who can not sing,
for the worker who lost his work
for those twenty years and it is to die
in a desert like a pigsty.
is for all boys and girls
defending a book, a real book,
so good to cry in the streets
because they are killing the thought
to the bastard who is always in the sun,
for the coward who hides his heart,
for our memory thrown away
by these lords of pain.
still love Call me! Call
always love
that these accursed night
will even finish,
because we fill
here music and words.
still love Call me!
always love Call me!
In this hopeless dream,
between silence and thunder,
defend this humanity,
also remain a single man.
still love Call me!
still love Call me!
always love Call me!
Because the ideas are like butterflies
you can not take off their wings,
because the ideas are like stars
not go out the storm,
because the ideas are rumors of mother
that I think I lost
and are like the smile of God
in spit of this universe.
still love Call me! Call
always love
that these accursed night
will end well,
because we fill
of music and words from here.
still love Call me!
always love Call me!
Keep writing life
between silence and thunder,
defend humanity this
that is so true in every man.
still love Call me!
still love Call me!
always love Call me!
Call still love! Call
always love
that these accursed night
will even finish,
because we fill
of music and words from here.
still love Call me!
always love Call me!
In this hopeless dream
between silence and thunder,
defend this humanity,
also remain a single man.
still love Call me!
still love Call me! Call
always love, because we
we love!
... and conclude with the discussion of Benigni on our anthem national.
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