… After the war events, rooms for ceremonies were created in the city, located in almost every area of the city: “Fante”, “Artiglieri”, “Veral”, Fiengo, Tretola, “Smeraldo”, Puntillo, Tresca… In addition to the ENAL after-works and Railways. In those rooms the formations of the masters alternated: Alfredo Salzano, senior; Italo Cammarota ; Vitolo Fasoli ; Geppino De Masi ; Mario Lamparelli; Raffaele Russo with Silvio Sorgente and Raffaele D’Elia; Cosimo Lepore ; “Ú spirit”; Peppino De Blasio ; Amedeo Romano ; Franco Tucci ; Cosimo Cataudo “Siriviestro” and the voices of Cosimo Iasiello; Tullio Zitani, Salvatore Zitani, Umberto Musco, Tonino Del Ninno, Andrea Principe, Franco Pepe, Romolo Fiore, Vittoria Piccolo, Luigi Mercurio, Riz Varchione and Antonio Magnotta singer-songwriters and the stagionate, Mena Nardone, Lucia Popoli, Evelina Mucci, while they moved the very first steps Pino and Enrico Salzano, Gigi Giuliano, Vittorio Marsiglia…
But the serenades were no longer heard: the mandolinists, Pasquale and Fulippiello Gallo “’A stoppa” disappeared; Armando Salzano, guitar and vocals; Augusto ‘u sgubbetiello, mandolin player, zi Giuvann ‘u barbier, double bass player and madolin player; Giovanni Russo, known as “Pinocchio” guitar, Mario Tavino mandolin player; Tutuccio Lepore, the spirit who no longer sang: “there is a casarella miaz ‘o mare”.
In ’52, as part of the “Freshman’s Day”, the young university students, while carrying out the battle in Benevento, sang: “Walking around Benevento you can no longer find nougat / J’amm ‘a vedù chellachiaca and Ciccone”. Parapaponzi ponzi ponzi!!! “It’s Serino’s woman if she doesn’t have a cape / ‘and Alberti’s woman if she doesn’t have a bra “Ponzi ponzi ponzi braces”!!! .
Among the university singers we remember Mario Panzone, Vincenzo Marino and Alfonso Russo (Raffaele’s brother)…
