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... emotions as vivid today as they were in the Italy of three, four or even five centuries ago when this music was first performed for its original audiences. During this period improvisation was usual. Songs were performed as intrumental pieces with whatever musical forces were available, or sung as s ...
... emotions as vivid today as they were in the Italy of three, four or even five centuries ago when this music was first performed for its original audiences. During this period improvisation was usual. Songs were performed as intrumental pieces with whatever musical forces were available, or sung as s ...
Paolo Agostini is a composer for television and motion
... docu-fiction COSI’ ERAVAMO (How We Were), which was presented at the David di Donatello Awards in 2007 in the feature-length documentary category. This latter work includes the title song “Cosi’ Eravamo” sung by Eva Pevarello. In Television, he has collaborated on the score of the Rai show LA GRANDE ...
... docu-fiction COSI’ ERAVAMO (How We Were), which was presented at the David di Donatello Awards in 2007 in the feature-length documentary category. This latter work includes the title song “Cosi’ Eravamo” sung by Eva Pevarello. In Television, he has collaborated on the score of the Rai show LA GRANDE ...
Volare (song)
""Nel blu dipinto di blu"" (Italian pronunciation: [nel ˈblu diˈpinto di ˈblu]; literally ""In the blue-painted blue""), popularly known as ""Volare"" [voˈlaːre] (flying), is a song recorded by Italian singer-songwriter Domenico Modugno. Written by Franco Migliacci and Domenico Modugno, it was released as a single on 1 February 1958.Winning the eighth Sanremo Music Festival, the song was chosen as the Italian entry to the Eurovision Song Contest in 1958, where it won third place out of ten songs in total.The combined sales of all the versions of the song exceed 22 million copies worldwide, making it one of the most popular Eurovision songs of all time and the most successful Sanremo Music Festival song ever.It spent five non-consecutive weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in August and September 1958 and was Billboard's number-one single for the year. Modugno's recording subsequently became the first Grammy winner for Record of the Year and Song of the Year in 1958.The song was later translated in several languages and it was recorded by a wide range of performers, including Bobby Rydell, Dean Martin, Al Martino, Jerry Vale, David Bowie, Cliff Richard, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Luciano Pavarotti, Andrea Bocelli, Dalida, Gipsy Kings, Chico & the Gypsies, Deana Martin and Barry White.