Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: shalom Al Bano

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Israeli culture is made up of subcultures that coexist but are not
necessarily aware of one another. For example: this past weekend, a
very famous singer packed not one but two auditoriums with adoring
fans and the story went completely unreported by the mainstream
Israeli press, Hebrew and English alike.
No matter. For the record, Al Bano Carrisi was in Israel and if the
name doesn’t ring a bell, then you either aren’t 1. a survivor of the
Europop Seventies, 2. Italian, or 3. Russian.
But if you are one of the aforementioned three, then the name Al Bano
elicits cries of joy and sighs of nostalgia.
Without going into the details of how it happened, last night I found
myself a member of Al Bano’s backstage entourage at the concert in Tel
Aviv’s Mann Auditorium. The night before, he had packed ‘em in at the
Haifa Auditorium. This was not his first trip to Israel. He’s toured
here before and — due to popular demand — will likely be here again.
This is why: Russians love Al Bano’s singing and Al Bano loves
singing. In the Sixties and Seventies, Al Bano was a crowd-pleasing
singer of sentimental songs, so famous in his home country that he
opened for the Rolling Stones on their 1967 Italian tour. He
participated in the San Remo Music Festival and Eurovision Song
Contest and together with wife Romina Powell (daugher of actor Tyrone
Powell) won both competitions in the Eighties. In the Nineties he
turned to opera and even stood in for Luciano Pavarotti, singing
alongside Plácido Domingo and José Carreras in their Three Tenors
performance.
He also sued Michael Jackson for plagiarism. He didn’t win but still,
how great is that? You can read about that and more about his storied
career here.
Somehow during his career, Al Bano’s music managed to slip through a
chink in the Iron Curtain. And so, although today he lives the life of
a gentleman farmer and vintner, a few times a year Al Bano ventures
out on tour, performing in countries with large Russian emigre
populations who are wild for Al Bano.
Yesterday’s audience turned out in all their lacquered, manicured,
hair-sprayed, sequined and fur-trimmed finery (PETA has no place at a
Russian event). The majority were middle aged and up but that doesn’t
mean they were tame. Not by a long shot. Between almost every song,
women climbed, bounded or hobbled onto the stage with bouquets for
their idol, as is the Russian tradition. And once on stage, they
serenaded him, got his autograph and even had the backup singers take
their picture.
Al Bano reveled in every moment he had with his audience — he loves
connecting with the crowd by talking directly to them — and they
responded with waves of affection. He opened with a few transliterated
words in Hebrew and Russian. Before singing the song “Nostalgia” he
explained that he’d had a long-standing songwriting collaboration with
journalist and lyricist Willy Molcho, a Jew whose daughter now lives
in Israel. And for his third ovation — “Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves”
from Verdi’s Nabucco — he dedicated it to the audience. They wept.
And that’s the thing about seeing a master showman with four-and-a-
half decades of performing experience, a true creature of the stage —
his music might not be to my taste but just watching him command the
crowd was an unforgettable experience.
Standing backstage after the show, it turned out that in addition to
the Russian-Israeli majority, (and the Italian-Israeli minority) there
were also members of another subculture present: sabra Israeli doctors
who had studied medicine in Italy and — as one M.D. put it to us —
spent their nights burning the midnight oil with Al Bano’s music on
the radio, playing in the background.
The good doctors wanted express their gratitude by taking him out to
dinner. He wasn’t able to but clearly, given the love his Israeli fans
have him, Al Bano Carrisi could dine out every night this week in Tel
Aviv if he wanted to.

 elicits cries of joy and sighs of nostalgia.
Ho nutrito, nutro e nutrirò dubbi sulla capacità di penetrazione della 
competenza della musica popolare in Israele.
-- 
*Sunspot*
I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.

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Non è proprio tutto orribilante.
Comunque sento spesso di peggio sui taxi dell'Europa Centrale
-- 
recoil is insignificant when there is a tiger on the head of your elephant"

 competenza della musica popolare in Israele.
dici che, con maggiori competenze, l'evento non sarebbe stato un-
noticed da Haaretz?

 muovendo il culo al ritmo di Drupi, e senza invitareh un cazzo di nessunoh. Oh yeahh
Ti siamo grati di questa attenzioneh
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Se (almeno) Haaretz non ne ha parlato, forse potrebbe aprirsi uno 
spiraglio di speranza...
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 Comunque sento spesso di peggio sui taxi dell'Europa Centrale
Purtroppo, l'autoradio del tassì è l'unica alternativa valida al tassista.
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 Se (almeno) Haaretz non ne ha parlato,
e nemmeno il JPost, Yediot o Maariv. Sta scritto sopra:
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this past weekend, a very famous singer packed not one but two
auditoriums with adoring fans and the story went completely unreported
by the mainstream Israeli press, Hebrew and English alike. [...] This
was not his first trip to Israel. He’s toured  here before and — due
to popular demand — will likely be here again.
This is why: Russians love Al Bano’s singing and Al Bano loves
singing.
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P.S. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWiK0vaXOIQ

 fanno petih, convinti che fa bene alla saluteh.
E' una specie di happy hour tibetanah?
Ti ringrazio comunque di non averci invitatih
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 P.S. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWiK0vaXOIQ
I tassisti dell'Europa centrale ne andranno matti...
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 Ti ringrazio comunque di non averci invitatih
ROTFL 

 Sgloglgloglog me lo shbevassoh, tutto il vinassoh, HIC!
Non dovresti eccedere così.
-- 
"Ritengo un lungo inverno atomico il male peggiore, anche e 
soprattutto per il proletariato." il compagno Persio 

 Comunque sento spesso di peggio sui taxi dell'Europa Centrale
noleggia un'auto con chauffeur...:D

 P.S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWiK0vaXOIQ
MIRACOLO! Ebrei russi che parlano ebraico!

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ommadonna, non avevo ancora sentito la musica. Il più tamarro dei
neomelodici è Caruso in confronto a questi macellai. Ho il fondato
sospetto che non sia un concerto, ma l'addestramento intensivo per
matricole alla sopportazione delle torture per non rivelare segreti
militari se catturati.