First incursion of Brazilian in lyric music, with the help of composer Aldo Brizzi, “Amor Azul” is broadcast on France 5 and on France Musique.
by Aureliano tonet (Alexandria (Italy), Special Envoy)
Those who have gone around the round house a thousand times: as far as they remember, they had never seen the members of the Orchestra and the Choir of Radio France Dodelline with as much of enthusiasm after a show. This event occurred during the last of the three concerts given to the auditorium of Radio France, in Paris, on December 2, 3 and 4, by singer Gilberto Gil and the composer and conductor Aldo Brizzi. The Brazilian and the Italian created Amor Azul, an opera, which they co-wrote for seven years, between the drops of COVID-19-a first for the co-founder of tropicalism and ex-minister of the culture of President Lula.
Acmé of the past year for Radio France and France Télévisions, which have co -produced it, this singular collaboration invites, from the same stride, starting 2023 on the right foot: it will be broadcast on Friday January 20, on France 5 , then Wednesday January 25, on France Musique. The capture took place at the general, Thursday 1 er December. The enthusiasm of the participants was already palpable – as soon as the concert was completed, the brass lengthened the first notes of Hey Jude, as an offering at Gilberto Gil, whose passion for the Beatles is legendary. Who remembers it? In the 1990s, Paul McCartney had tried learned music, without convincing. The Bahianais incursion is much more convincing. Witness the opening of Amor Azul, of clear beauty-melody, orchestration, interpretation, everything flows from source.
“Large waters do not turn off love/floods in flood do not overwhelm it”, say the first lines of the booklet, preamble to the tortuous and tortured love of Krishna and Radha. Cascade avatars, a cosmic and syncretic mythology, great means – 2 h 45 of music, 47 songs, 523 partition pages, 19,500 notes, 169 artists on stage including two Indian dancers: James Cameron can go to get dressed, the Bluckbuster bluish of winter, here it is.
fine flower of tropicalism
Success is all the more admirable since Gil celebrated, in June 2022, his 80 spring. He joined the services of a maestro who, in terms of eight, knows about it. In the circuit of contemporary music, Aldo Brizzi has long been associated with Giacinto Scelsi, who had made him his disciple of choice. Unusual musician as this sceli, as archaic as before-the-art: he said he had his inspiration for Vedic Devities, and expected to join the beyond the day when the eight, symbols of infinity, would all be aligned- In fact, he died on August 8, 1988.
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