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take this following article, taken from the Corriere della Sera on March 27, 2008 by Valerio Cappelli, in support of the appeal of Maestro Riccardo Muti

THE CASE: THE MASTER direct a group of young musicians Calabrese warns

Riccardo Muti: Subject to the bands'

"Three thousand complexes are in crisis and no money This is a true cultural crime"

R OMA - the Panda is the band's music, the 'animal culture' at risk of extinction. The historic town bands, abandoned by the state, are in disarray and could close. "We call things as they are: it is a cultural crime," thunders Riccardo Muti. On 14 June, for the first time in his career, will direct a band at the Ravenna Festival. It may seem like a cultural provocation, it is actually a way to draw attention to a reality hastily dismissed as a genre out of fashion. "My intended as a tribute to the crisis of all bands of Italy." With him will ring rings band of Delianuova, 80 guys playing in the land of the 'Ndrangheta in Reggio Calabria, is the miracle of Aspromonte, where the music does not come. "The bands represent, for many cities of our country, the only opportunity to listen to music, often for free. " Muti open and close the concert, with the symphonies of Norma and Nabucco, "where it is due to stress the absolute importance of the bands." For Unity, that the crisis of the bands has dedicated an investigation, "those responsible" are the regions which have the task of raising funds with three-year programs of intervention.

"the Councillor DEPEND ON DUTY" - But the 3000 Italian bands depend on the sensitivity of the councilor turn. Need money to buy tools, travel, facilities for testing, training courses. "I do not must be institutional care, who is responsible can not lift the shoulders with a faint smile, but has no obligation to maintain survival of these teams, we need to pay to those who bring delight and culture in places where it is impossible to reach a theater. " Muti has already heard the boys went with her when Aspromonte Cherubini Orchestra in Reggio Calabria: "It's a wonderful group of wind instruments with an extraordinary human and artistic discipline, a habit that seems to have emerged from the most prestigious colleges of Oxford; have passion and love. " He pauses, "They have decent-ties." The teacher spent Easter in Molfetta, his hometown, where he referred to as the processions South, those of the Mysteries, a centuries-old tradition still followed by the bands. I met fine musicians that came from the band. " Muti wants to untie the knot of disinterestedness, the cliché of military marches and fanfares, "Banda is not synonymous with lower quality or of folk instruments and not fussy with which they can be accommodated. Instead, instruments are noble, what must you think of Verdi that he listened to the bands as a boy, and that he uses to announce the arrival of King Duncan in Macbeth. " And in modern times, Stravinsky and Hindemith. "And before Bellini, Berlioz, in the second act that Spontini Dell'Agnese of Hohenstaufen uses a band that makes a huge organ function and is one of the sublime moments of that work. " He spent many evenings to hear the bands, Lanciano, Francavilla, Besana Brianza, where they did an honorary citizen, "Using tools that are there in the orchestra, the oficleidi, the flugelhorn, the euphonium, the saxophone family, the euphonium, which looks like a good old name and is a tenor horn. " The great surge in the band repertoire occurred during the French Revolution, it was to fill the life associated with new rituals, hymns and odes, not just sectarian. "Abroad civilized countries have great bands. Our children have studied at the conservatories of the bands, not from his father who is a barber shop. "

«TOTO' DIRETTORE MANCATO» - Maestro, ricorda Totò a colori, quando dirige la banda come un pupo siciliano? «Un grande attore, un poeta, l'autore di Malafemmena. In quel film fa un gesto musicale in forma di gioco, ma ogni gesto è di una tale precisione che non è solo a ridosso della musica, evoca il suono che sta per produrre. Se Totò avesse fatto il direttore d'orchestra, sarebbe stato uno dei più grandi del secolo. Sarebbe bene mostrare alle classi di direzione d'orchestra Totò che dirige la banda, non solo quando fa il tric trac e i mortaretti ma nei pizzicati, nei legati, negli staccati, per capire che una certa mimica è in diretto contatto con la musica».

mission possible Muti in Ravenna: restore nobility to the band repertoire.