Waiting for music to come up in my life ..

All of me

Sorge, Fidone, Rubino at Enola club

Nice evening: from the left Paolo Sorge, Alberto Fidone and Dino Rubino.
Enola Club Catania ... Marvellous Jazz music!

You've got a friend

It will follows ... ELISA!

simply BEAUTIFUL!
To be continued ..

Mario Biondi 's concert at Taormina

The Taormina 's greek amphitheater, an orchestra, and a good company ... result : nice evening! :).
That 's how spent last Friday ... at the Mario Biondi concert.
Concert started at 9,30 pm and took 2 hours. It was a nice evening for many good factors. Weather gave its best :P, despite little transitory clouds :).
What about concert.. What I appreciated more were : orchestra (Duke Orchestra and High Five Quintet) really nice; greek amphitheater .. it 's a beautiful place (hopefully you can catch atmosphere from the pictures, but I don't think so, hence look at this photostream and many thanks to the author :P).
I didn't appreciate Mario Biondi so much for many reasons. He has a beautiful voice, it is very similar to Barry White 's voice (equal sometimes) but he didn't transmit me any emotion. I think he has that voice but he doesn't use it in a special way. He just sings, not enjoy singing. Maybe he was scared because of the big audience or because he has no talent to stay on stage. I can say that I 'll not pay more than 5 euros for Mario Biondi next time :P (I payed 34 euros for the concert :( ).
I really appreciated some parts of the concert : the duet Mario Biondi-Mario Venuti (see picture), they sang a Venuti's song; and when the High Five Quintet played with no orchestra and singer.

McFerrin at "La Scala" theatre, Milan

No words to explain ... just listen to Bobby

and then read :

(English)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/theaterarts/2003682680_conc27.html

(Italiano)
http://www.corriere.it/vivimilano/cronache/articoli/2007/05_Maggio/09/scala_cellulare.shtml

London

Hi fellows,
unfortunately I 'm back from London.I 'm sad ... look at the picture and you can just imagine why!
I 'll try to share with you what I lived for 3 days (very short period).
I cannot miss to say that I like London, it is objectively nice! But most of all I enjoyed it for many reasons.
I walked freely, with no fixed destinations, no time tables. I tried to live everything as much slow as possible, to capture not only London as a touristic city, but London and Londoners.
Thanks to a friend (and destiny as well :P), I met Peter and Adam (see the picture), lovely persons.
We were at a club in which fans of the Northern Soul music meet to share a common passion. Peter loves that music and I was happy that he decided to share this with me. I 'm eager learning about music, most of all jazz, soul and blues.
I had also a dinner with Peter two days later, and we had a walk through the "City" of London. I loved walking and talking to Peter in that beautiful atmosphere.
Therefore I was at the Tate Modern museum, an old power station reused as museum. I like this kind of museum, modern, out of the classic schema, in which you can find the classic paintings, as well as a video produced with strange effect on a mobile wall, and more artistic experiments.
As I planned before leaving, I was to the theater for the "Phantom of the Opera"... nice! Despite audio and the seat in the balcony (the highest location in the theater :(, even if I payed 24 pounds for that seat! ) I enjoyed the show.
I spent most of the time in the touristic London, and this is not representative for the entire city, I saw people from everywhere, a lot of people of different countries, but living and sharing the same places and services, no suspicious with each other, no awry sights ... just living peacefully.
Moreover, English people are really polite. They take care of individuals, above all if they need help. I saw more than once people asking to provide help if needed. I know that it is not very unusual, but I think it was great because it was done without distinguishing among races and colours. Probably, that's why I didn't see people asking for money or washing car's windows or selling roses (as happens in Italy) at the traffic lights. If everyone stops to help anyone asking or not, there 'll be no one searching for any kind of job to live (or survive).
Finally, art, architecture, music, nature (in the beautiful parks!) and hospitality distinguished this travel to London.
Of course, I have to wish to myself to be back in London not too late :P!

Blasco Small Combo

Hi fellows!
I 'm happy to insert a new post about music.
Yesterday, BB King pub in Biancavilla ( :P !!) hosted the Blasco Small Combo band.
The picture shows them in the pub and in the link you can find information about band and you can download two excerpts as well.
The band is composed of 2 element: Blasco, the voice and contrabass player, and Sergio, the guitarist and second voice. I really think that they seem to be an orchestra!
I found the appointment navigating the net, then invited some friends and I can say that they were a real surprise: the evening was really pleasant!
The atmosphere the band created in the pub was beautiful, most similar to a scene from "Happy days" American movie. It seemed to live an episode :).
They dress mirroring 50s and 60s' style. Both wore little ties and Blasco wore beige "clark" as shoes. I think that shoes are the only pair existing in the world :P, you cannot find that model anymore in any shop! I think he uses it only for concert ;).
Blasco, the voice, is able to create the 60s' atmosphere. His voice is also very similar to the one used in the famous American series by the band at Arnold's. He sings perfectly following lyric and in a way that seems to express pleasure, naturalness. Blasco is considered the greatest european rockabilly (see also here) contrabass player.
Looking at Blasco's hands while playing is almost amazing. Most of all the right hand, the one that plunks the strings. If you listen to "Heartbeat" or "Oh Boy!" in the link, you can listen to the speed the music goes and the battery you hear is not part of the band as you can see from the picture, but it the effect Blasco creates plucking strings! He is amazing! He seems to play two instruments simultaneously and perfectly synchronized.
At the end of the concert, the last excerpt involved also a sax player in pub. He started playing with the band and I enjoyed to be involved in the players' pleasure to create music and spread emotions.
Nice evening! Hopefully I 'll post something about music like this soon.

Carmen Consoli concert

Hi fellows,

here there are some pictures of the concert of the last 27th March..not good unfortunately!

It was a nice concert, in which acting and music merged in a nice way.

The "Tune"

Hi "ladies and gentlemen",
I have the pleasure to introduce the "Tune" to everybody :).
Another post related to music is going to be added to my blog.


This is a group that I met for the first time on my last birthday, more or less one month ago. A friend of mine is a member of the group, i.e. the bass player.
The "Tune" usually plays in Catania's pubs. Yesterday they played at Barrique pub. I had my last birthday's party there :) and it was a beautiful party, I enjoyed it very much!
First time I met, I liked the singer so much. She has a "stinging" voice but most of the time she sing softly. Unfortunately, while singing her voice is covered by instruments and is very hard to listen to her.
Yesterday she was nice, but she wasn't strong, she didn't express all her force. Maybe my impression is not exactly the same that people in the pub felt, but this is what I caught. She didn't transmit me any special emotion, I couldn't feel the happiness/desperation in her singing. It seemed that she was just singing and not thinking about songs content. She can do better I know, I saw!
I don't know how difficult is to express the emotion in singing a song, but the 2 greatest singers I 've met till today said me that this is the secret of a good singing.
I observed each member of the group. There were a bass, a battery, a guitar, a pianola, a trumpet and a sax...and the voice ;P. Attending a LIVE concert is always a big emotion. The music reaches your mind and heart.
Music they played was pop music and sometime jazz, but I liked more the music they played at my party.


Time by time, this blog is collecting information about group and as soon as I meet new singers I 'll try to catch the secret to spread emotion using the voice.

Swanee String Quartet

Swanee String Quartet
Originally uploaded by rossyrap.

I was in a Jazz concert last saturday, I listened to Swanee String Quartet of Giorgia Meli, and it was a beatiful concert!
The quartet is dedicated to George Gershwin. Swanee is a Gershwin's song. The singer has a beautiful voice and she sings perfectly using perfect english pronunciation and following perfectly melody with its beautiful nuances. Of course, she sang Summertime, with immense abandon.

Music

I love music, all kind of music, whenever it is able to spread emotions....big emotions!
The posts labelled with "music" (you can select them by using the menu on the right side) are dedicated to the Music. I 'll talk about songs, maybe classic music or other genres, but not commercial music (NdR (Nota di Rossella): this last is an inconsistent sentence : "commercial music", it does not make any sense...it is not music! See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music for definition, but I 'm going to find a more useful and meaningful definition as I intend it).
With the "Music" section, I wish to share with you emotions that It gives to me and maybe it can give to you, share knowledge, understand more about music, helped by your comments..so please send me your comments, I need of them!
I'll try to transmit to you my feeling as much as possible....unfortunately I cannot sing for you ;)

PS: comments will be moderated by me and eventually published.