MUSIC IN A BOX? A Corrado Neri’s Docu-Show | English Version
dear shining dear friends from all over the world i'm glad to introduce you and welcome you in this project that i called music in a box with a question mark because i want to ask to everyone of you if the music can really exist inside a box we know this is a special period we are under this pandemic problem of the coronavirus and we feel like every one of us is inside a box but this object the box is also a special object because inside that we can find many things for example this book i collected from the experience i had in new york last two years and many other things of your life emotions and many things the box can be also for example the the ipad or the iphone where you are now listening and watching this concert the boss can be also a radio it can be a tv the box could be also this special place where we are in this moment the teatro garibaldi of avola the box can contain all the traditions all the cultural particularities of your country and that's what i want to do with you in this moment with this project music in a box what you listened in this moment can be linked directly with my experience in america that is one of the greatest thing happened in my life my relation with america is very important for this special person who is means shining soon that helped me to enjoy the cultural life in new york uh i have to say thank you very much to another person which is very important for me which is the professor b c roman from romania she's a special special person that helped me a lot and introduced me to shining so if now i have the honor to talk about this thing is thanks to bc but something special happened in my life also four years ago i started to live in milan six years ago but first two years were not so beautiful so easy for my life but after two years i had the opportunity to enter in one of the most magical place in milan which is casa verdi casa verdi is a house that giuseppe verdi decided to build in the early 20th century and where a lot of musicians that ended with their career stay for relax and to pass the time and in this place i knew bc roman thanks to bc i knew and i met shining soon and like we are playing with the boxes one inside on the other exactly in relation with this object and that's why in this concert that i call the music in a box i decided to put inside a piece i dedicated to shining shining watts a piece dedicated to giuseppe verdi to say also to him thank you for what you did for us artists this is the theme of the song that you have just heard and this is from one of the greatest poetry of domenico modulo which is a great songwriter and composer but i didn't experiment how it should be if it was written by bach in the early 18th century as you can understand from the songs i just played in this kind of concert which is music in a box i'm very very affected to this special songwriter who is dominic he's a special musician that i love so much for his relation with the tradition with the futuristic tradition of southern part of italy but what i want to do in this project is to mix different personalities and the next one i'm very glad to announce it because we are talking about one of the greatest songwriters in this period and percussionist this person is alfio antico and i'm very glad to have him in this concert the next song i will play it's a song that i love particularly which is called ave maria and i had the great honor to write the lyrics on this wonderful music that a great friend of mine maestro romano pucci donated me as a gift this paper was found by romano under a organ pedal in an old sicilian church and this is for you ave maria in music in a box i decided to put inside also two compositions that i finished just a few weeks ago and i'm talking about song for redemption that i dedicated to my maestro paul gulda who lives now in vienna he is a great great great pianist and composer and the other one is aetna which is a song it's a special song because i wrote it this summer was a special very special period because after this lockdown i was very sad and i started to walk around the one of the greatest wonder of the world which is the aetna mount this big big very high volcano in the eastern part of sicily and so i passed all my summer walking around the volcano and listening to its sounds looking this atmosphere i decided to write a song, Etnea this is the end of our journey among notes and music notes in a box as you could see remember and listen the words that contain ourselves as we contain inside us emotions feelings sensations the life sometimes blind us into our infinite series of boxes one inside of the other creating a disorder or sometimes a wonderful order that's why i want to say thank you from my heart to a special person shining that always helped me and supported my music and my talent and when the life asked me to tidy up my boxes that was the time that i found a great friend in the poetry the coral tin box once contained cookies i could still smell their fragrance in new crumbs hidden among papers envelopes and postcards in there a few stamps framed in lace lapped by thin waves of ink the sign of a journey in a sea of letters concert programs embellished tickets to enter the velvet theater seat they still smelled of dust and face powder of folding fans throbbing hearts and yearning sighs the champagne corck that once popped and flew to the ceiling in a time when people could hug dance slowly heart to heart cheek to cheek photographs left there by the eye of life a bride and a veil amongst orange blossoms a little girl reflected in the smile of a male lily the mom next to a newborn's milky crib the boys clustered like grapes around school desks memories remain in the secret box whose bottom was never to be found for the feelings kept in there were so profound they became the sky and climb the stairway of notes into the rainbow
2021-03-27 16:26
