#quartetto cetra

[tiramegtoons]

Ehee :3

Original song:

[maimoncat]

Some of the Wizard of Oz's songs performed by the Cetra Quartett + title cards and scenepack of the wicked witch from the 1949 italian dub of the MGM movie. This was the only dub that translated the songs alongside the spoken words into italian

@themousefromfantasyland @witchesoz @ariel-seagull-wings

[aitan]

"Re Federico" di Gianni Rodari, musicata e interpretata Da Virgilio Savona nel 1969.

C'era un re di nome Federico

che andò in guerra e cercava il nemico.

Ma il nemico era andato

a comprare il gelato

infischiandosene del re Federico.

- Nemico, nemico, vieni fuori che ti aspetto! -

- Adesso no, finisco il sorbetto -.

- Vieni fuori che ti aspetto con la spada e con la lancia -.

- Adesso no, perché ho il mal di pancia -.

Re Federico per la disperazione

buttò la corona e andò in pensione.

(Da "Filastrocche in cielo e in terra", 1960)

Virgilio Savona, negli anni '60, in parallelo con la sua attività di membro del Quartetto Cetra, fu molto impegnato nella produzione di canzoni di protesta e di satira, spesso improntate su temi anarchicheggianti a antibellici.

Altri suoi #cantiantimilitaristi erano "Sciabola al fianco, pistola alla mano" e "Il proconsole Dione e il fante Massimiliano", entrambe del 1969.

Nello steso periodo ha musicato anche "Dopo la pioggia", un'altra poesia contro la guerra di Gianni Rodari, quella che si conclude con il meraviglioso distico:

"Sarebbe una festa per tutta la terra

fare la pace prima della guerra."

Sua anche la versione in musica di un pensiero ultramilitarista di Marco Porcio Catone detto il Censore, che cantò e ridicolizzò Giorgio Gaber in "Sexus e Politica" nel 1970.

Il cartaginese

è già nostro nemico

perché chi si prepara

a muovere una guerra

pur se non stringe ancora

un'arma nelle mani

ma è pronto per colpire

colpire all'improvviso

è già nostro nemico

[ariainstars]

The Beauty of Disney Pixar’s film “Luca”

Reblogging after I found some mistakes in my original entry.

Written by a native Italian. 😊😉

I already wrote about how the infamous „Bella Notte” scene from Lady and the Tramp irritates me; though probably well-meant it couldn’t be more cliché and, consequently, incorrect.

In return, 2021’s Luca feels like an overdue answer to the idea many people all over the world have grown up with when it comes to Italy’s culture and mentality.

It starts with the opening titles.

„Un bacio a mezzanotte” is a 60ies Italian classic from Quartetto Cetra, not exactly known outside of its own country. The text „Do not fall for a midnight kiss” seems to make no sense story-wise since nothing happens in the movie where it would fit in. But it anticipates where and when the story takes place, and in my opinion, it’s a wink at „Bella notte”, which is incorrect Italian and drives the idea home that Italians have nothing in mind but making love at night. „Un bacio a mezzanotte” has a humorous, down-to-earth approach on romantic love; like Lady and the Tramp, Luca is set in the Fifties, but while the first sets up stage for a love story at night, the quartet’s song has the exact opposite theme.

Luca is not a Disney musical; the songs we sometimes hear in the background are not the annoying, trite Italo-pop you sometimes overhear in other movies but actual songs Italians of that generation grew up with, sung by e.g. Mina or Gianni Morandi, which are hardly known outside the country.

We see no romantic couple and there not the slightest hint at „amore“; Giulia’s parents may even be separated since she says that her mother lives in Genova. The major themes are friendship and family.

The setting is not in Rome, Venice, Naples or Florence like one would expect but in Liguria, a not so well-known region. (Portorosso does not actually exist but the cities of Cinque Terre look a lot like it.)

Instead of the infamous spaghetti with meatballs, the characters eat actual Italian food like trenette al pesto, and Massimo shows Alberto how to correctly eat them with a fork.

Nobody plays the mandolin (an outmoded instrument which in Italy you will probably only find in some museum); instead, people listen to or hum Italian opera.

There is no silly, incorrect Italian like in Lady and the Tramp; when the characters do speak in their native language, it is spot on.

None of the main characters have the „Italian trademark” look with curly black hair and mustache. Giulia is a redhead, which is rather uncommon but I guess she was meant as a bow to The Little Mermaid, from which Luca borrows some of the story beginning.

Portorosso’s bully is the selfish and mean show-off Ercole, a guy with slick black hair who loves his Vespa more than anything (except looking down on people). Our protagonist Luca is a stranger to the town; his looks do not fit common cliché about Italian guys, and he is a gentle, slightly shy dreamer.

Luca loves astronomy; one of the worlds’ most famous astronomers was Galilei, an Italian.

Instead of a bunch of cute dogs we meet Macchiavelli, a sullen, fat, lazy cat.

The movie has a melancholy but hopeful ending, not a happy end.

If Enrico Casarosa meant to make the world at large understand what the beauty of Italy’s mentality and culture truly is, he has excelled. No wonder so many fans are already asking for a sequel.

As a native Italian, I must say I am quite satisfied with this authentic and lovingly told display of what being Italian actually means; a rehabilitation the often maligned country, in my opinion, might actually have needed.

[buenasuerterecord]

Sacher Quartet - Aveva un bavero (Quartetto Cetra)

[sunset-supergirl]

Happy birthday Virgilio Savona

[szivko-szilank]

Non ti fidar Di un bacio a mezzanotte Se c'è la luna non ti fidar Perché, perché La luna a mezzanotte Riesce sempre a farti innamorar Non ti fidar di stelle galeotte Che invitano a volersi amar Mezzanotte per amar Mezzanotte per sognar Fantasticar

Ma come farò senza più amar Ma come farò senza baciar Ma come farò a non farmi tentar Luna, luna tu Non mi guardar Luna, luna tu Non curiosar Luna, luna tu Non far la sentinella Ogni stella in ciel Parla al mio cuor Ogni stella in ciel Parla d'amor Ogni stella in ciel sarà La mia stella Mezzanotte per amar Mezzanotte per sognar Fantasticar

Non ti fidar d'un bacio a mezzanotte (Ma come farò senza più amar) Se c'è la luna non ti fidar (Ma come farò a non farmi tentar) Perché, perché (Luna, luna tu) La luna a mezzanotte (Non mi guardar) Riesce sempre a farti innamorar (Luna, luna tu non far la sentinella) Non ti fidar di stelle galeotte (Ogni stella in ciel parla al mio cuor) Che invitano a volersi amar (Ogni stella in ciel sarà la mia stella) Mezzanotte per amar Mezzanotte per sognar Fantasticar

[sunset-supergirl]

Happy birthday Lucia Mannucci