Canosa remembers Pino Daniele at the “May of Books”

Grand finale for the “May of Books” to Canosa of Puglia with the last meeting this evening taking place outdoors at the entrance to the “Enrico Fermi” Scientific High SchoolAnother well-attended and quality event, with the literary and musical contribution of Fulvio Frezza and Domenico Mezzinapreceded by the performance of the high school students enriched by the monologue of Sofia D’Eliatitled “Virtus and Letizia”, written by the teacher Nunzia Lansisera . A story full of sensitivity where “the protagonist, Virtus, is a woman, a teacher struggling with her daily life, who suddenly dissolves into a sea of ​​thoughts, memories, into something unexpected, the meeting with Letizia, the other soul of the tale.” The actress Sofia D’Elia in his fourth year of high school, for his part, he brought his personal interpretation, with an original and elegant slant, giving “voice to the thoughts, emotions, those unanswered ‘whys’ of the protagonist of the story.” Long applause and congratulations from the public, the school director, Gerardo Totaro, from the teachers Rosangela Di Stasi, Francesca Di Nunno and Nunzia Lansisera project contacts for the “May of Books”the initiative sponsored by the Puglia Region and the Municipality of Canosa di Puglia, which was promoted and organized by the collaboration between the BAT Biblio-Museum Centre, Regional Library of Canosa di Puglia and the “Enrico Fermi” State High School. Everyone united by “the same interest is to bring citizens closer to reading and books for free”as they reported among other things, in their interventions: Dr Rosa Anna Asselta, Head of the regional library of Canosa di Puglia and the councilor for culture Cristina Saccinto.

The memorable songs of Pino Daniele served as the soundtrack to the final evening of the “May of Books” with the writer Fulvio Frezza and the musician Domenico Mezzina. The book was presented with a musical reading “Napulè. The thousand colors of Pino Daniele” by Fulvio Frezza in one “imaginary narrative collected with love as if it were the outcome of a long conversation had in front of the fireplace of the hotel that hosted him in Courmayeur before the last concert on New Year’s Eve 2015. The novel of a life that begins in a small and falling low of his Naples and which better than many other stories describes this city and its singular people, through his family, his friendships, his first successes, his loves and his passion for Eduardo De Filippo who was in in a certain sense the guide and example to follow. Loves and passions so strong that they even forced him to distance himself from them in order to better survive the tantrums of his sick heart. He had always known that he would never become o’ vicchiariello ca chiagnenno awaiting death,. yet he thought he had more time.” A literary-musical format that combined the author’s reading Fulvio Frezza to another art, that of music, with the guitar of Domenico Mezzina, in an emotional memory of the late Pino Danielenine years after his death, through the beauty of his songs, re-proposed in a mix of unique sounds and melodies from the vast repertoire of the never forgotten Neapolitan artist, one of the greatest in the history of Italian music.
Photo by Savino Mazzarella