Italian Students (Lesson 3)

Hello everyone.

Here is some material based on the class from Thursday 19th March.

Firstly, here are some of the musicians and songs I discussed as forming the Italian popular music tradition. Here is Enrico Caruso singing 'O Sole Mio, Pavarotti singing Nessun Dorma and Fred Buscaglione performing Che Bambola!

Into the sixties, and the hilariously uncomfortable Adriano Celentano is forced to mime to Azzurro, and Lucio Battisti is nervous, then really gets into singing Un'Avventura at the San Remo song festival.

Then we have Claudio Baglioni's famous Piccolo grande amore, and into the 80s with Pino Daniele singing Yes I Know My Way. You may be interested to know that Simple Minds featured on the album version of this song. Maybe not.

The nineties, and rap, Roman style, with Frankie Hi-NRG MC (really)and Quelli che ben pensano. And now we can get more up to date, with Daniele Silvestri's turn at San Remo, "singing" Saliro'.

If none of that interested you at all, please take it from me that you are not alone. You may, however, be interested in this little video (I'm sorry that it's such poor quality) featuring the famous Gigi Proietti as the peasant. How do Italians tell time?

Again, if you find anything nice online, let everyone know with the comments.

Buon Lavoro!