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The songs in this collection belong to the plays written by me and performed from the 60’s to the 70’s, that is to say in the period immediately after Franca and I were dismissed from Canzonissima ‘62 (the Italian song festival) and before the show Mistero Buffo.
The plays were then performed again towards the end of the 70’s in a series broadcast on RAI 2.These songs were born from the life long collaboration with my friend who died recently, Fiorenzo Carpi, an extraordinary musician for his culture and tractability.
Together we were committed and also enjoyed ourselves, over a period of about 40 years, writing songs of which some have became famous, hopping from one musical and theatrical theme to another, inventingnew styles, reelaborating classical ones, creating “historical fakes” and introducing them little as “anonymous 15th century Lombard”, “18th century minuettist”, “minstrel” etc., all in perfect harmony thanks also to Fiorenzo’s geniality and serious work. It is for him too, since he was an artist, a poet and a friend not to be forgotten, that I am glad to have this opportunity to publish these beautiful songs once again, so that new generations may have the possibility to know them and hopefully,love them,and by listening to them they will not let them fall into oblivion.
Dario Fo
Fiorenzo Carpi
Graduated in composition at the Giuseppe VerdiConservatoire, Milan (Italy), with Arrigo Pedrollo,Giorgio Federico Ghedini, and Roberto Lupi.
Fiorenzo Carpi became a permanenet member of thePiccolo Teatro di Milano (Italy) since its establishment in1947 and wrote the music for over a hundred of GiorgioStrehler’s stage productions.
He composed music forstage productions by Dario Fo, Vittorio Gassman, IGobbi (Valeri, Caprioli, Bonucci and Salce) and PatriceChéreau, Eduardo De Filippo, Klaus Gruber, FrancoParenti, Carlo Battistoni, Gigi Proietti, Luigi Squarzina,Giorgio De Lullo, Lamberto Puggelli, Angelo Corti, andAndré Shammah. He worked for the Teatro Nacional,Madrid (Spain), the Schauspielhaus, Vienna (Austria),the Festspielhaus, Salzburg (Austria), theSchauspielhaus, Monaco (Germany), the T.N.P., Lyon(France), the Théâtre d’Europe Odeon and la ComédieFrançaise, Paris (France), and for Roland Petit’s balletin Marseilles (France).
He wrote music for a huge numberof movies, including “Incompreso”, “Le Avventure diPinocchio”, “Mio Dio Come Sono Caduta in Basso”,“Voltati Eugenio”, “Infanzia, Vocazione, PrimeEsperienze di Giacomo Casanova Veneziano”, “CercasiGesù”, “L’Ingorgo”, “Buon Natale Buon Anno”, and“Marcellino Pane e Vino”, by Luigi Comencini, “ZazieDans le Métro” and “Vie Privée” by Louis Malle; “Leonial Sole”, “Parigi O Cara” and “Splendori e Miserie diMadame Royal” by Vittorio Caprioli; “L’Urlo”, “LaVacanza” and “Salon Kitty” by Tinto Brass; “SenzaFamiglia Nullatenenti Cercano Affetto” by VittorioGassman”; “Piso Pisello” by Peter Del Monte”; “LaChair de l’Orchidée” by Patrice Chéreau; “MaggioMusicale” by Ugo Gregoretti; “Notte Italiana” and “IlPrete Bello” by Carlo Mazzacurati; “I Divertimenti dellaVita Privata” by Cristina Comencini; “Abissinia” byFrancesco Martinotti.
Moreover, he composed themusic of a huge number of TV shows, besides chamber,orchestral and ballet music | |
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