Here's a synopsis of the how the video came about-direct from Norman Giorno Calapristi: Let's hope she performs her responsibilities during this acute period. She is invoked during times of plague and pestilence. Italian Vintage Audio folder has added a new video of a Palermo band marching during the Santa Rosalia festival (mid-July). The first mandolin part is all that survived-more than 100 years later. Often, the composers inscribed their sheet music with an affectionate greeting. Giorno played not only mandolin but clarinet and saxophone in the dance ensembles he conducted. Gioè sent the sheet music to Luigi Giorno's home in Germantown, Philadelphia. "Cor 'ngrato" stands at the apex of Neapolitan music shaped by the poetry of Italian immigrants such as Sisca. He and his brother ran a radical newspaper "Folia" and Sisca was a Neapolitan poet whose lyrics graced the sheet music that Enrico Caruso made famous in America. "Cordiferro" is housed in the MISCELLANEOUS folder as it was published by Catalano.Ĭordiferro was Alessandro Sisca's pseudonym. The link below takes you to Tarantola (with the Sei Mafiusi) offering his magnificent interpretation through his unmistakable full-throated clarinet. The big music names in Italian immigrant music history! Joseph Gioè, Giuseppe Tarantola and Alessandra Sisca! I just uploaded the sheet music, dedicated to and named for "Cordiferro." It's a polka-schottische featuring the Scottish snap. Normanno Giorno-Calapristi -(Germantown) -Philadelphia PA. Glad to know that some of our pieces published here did make the passage to Italia at some point ! In the case of Messina's Rondinella-it was hiding out in Italy all these years-and not in some cold dark basement in Manhattan as has been the case with so much of this beloved music. Its always a joy-when someone finally is able to obtain one of these rare and long lost pieces-that they have searching for years. They had no idea that it was actually composed and published here in the US !
They were ecstatic and one musician swiftly headed down the icy street to Kinkos to print it out to bring back to Italy along with many other long lost pieces they had been searching for ! I also directed them to the Audio file where a vintage recording of it also resides. Pagani dropbox collection and queued up the complete "Camporeale" Trio. I immediately pulled out my cellphone and pulled up the entire O. They did not have the music for it they told me-and only knew its name and were not sure of the composer. Tarantola published by O.Pagani in NYC in 1919. Just 2 weekends ago, I was at an Italian party held in a restaurant here in downtown Philly where a group of musicians from the Abruzzi region were there playing the Zampogna, a guitar and 2 cane flutes ! I was shocked when they started playing the Camporeale -Schottische-(by ear no less and very well for not ever having the actual sheetmusic of this rare Sicilian/Scottish hybrid dance) of Maestro G. Mille Grazie!!!- for this latest find and musical gem you are sharing with us ! I can't stress enough the importance of downloading the new links and the various publishers dropboxes to one's personal devices-to share with ithers and keep thr tradition alive !
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