Pill of the week - BluRadio, 21/02/11
E 'an ordinary story, that of a musician of 44 years two decades ago dreamed of playing the organ, a great talent who has had great teachers and now has finally won a professorship of music.
But the musician and his name is Albanian Jusuf Beshiri, was one of seven thousand landed at Brindisi in those sunrises nightmare of 1991. He fled, alone and in secret from parents, from medieval Balkan Hoxha regime is not driven by poverty, which in fact belonged to a middle class family but because, as Professor Flack, were "killing thoughts": religion and television, cinema and music, fashion, books and all that stink and freedom of the West was forbidden. And he wanted to play the instrument that there is perhaps more religious, the organ, in a country that was off the repeater when on TV (on Rai) appeared to Pope Wojtyla.
In Italy he met, in that order, a priest, jeans, sacred art, the cinema, the Scala, and two teachers as Marcello Abbado Laura and Alvin. "I was drinking literally " This is the expression that he uses to things that we look old and outdated: frescoed medieval churches, classical concerts, theatrical performances. Today
toured Europe with major orchestras and has obtained the first chair in the official organ of Albania in Tirana.
The usual feel-good story, tell someone. Comfortable, tell someone else, take the best from a great free country that is able to achieve your dreams and then go home. First mistake, Jusuf has no intention of leaving his island district in Milan and his home overlooking the Pirelli Tower, will commute between their two countries.
And then the second error, hope you do not sell, we offer you like all the most precious things. For centuries we have been able to create culture, to realize dreams, to give hope, and maybe we are forgotten now we think that culture is just a cost, that dreams have a price tag, and the hope is admissible only if make ends meet. As
But the musician and his name is Albanian Jusuf Beshiri, was one of seven thousand landed at Brindisi in those sunrises nightmare of 1991. He fled, alone and in secret from parents, from medieval Balkan Hoxha regime is not driven by poverty, which in fact belonged to a middle class family but because, as Professor Flack, were "killing thoughts": religion and television, cinema and music, fashion, books and all that stink and freedom of the West was forbidden. And he wanted to play the instrument that there is perhaps more religious, the organ, in a country that was off the repeater when on TV (on Rai) appeared to Pope Wojtyla.
In Italy he met, in that order, a priest, jeans, sacred art, the cinema, the Scala, and two teachers as Marcello Abbado Laura and Alvin. "I was drinking literally " This is the expression that he uses to things that we look old and outdated: frescoed medieval churches, classical concerts, theatrical performances. Today
toured Europe with major orchestras and has obtained the first chair in the official organ of Albania in Tirana.
The usual feel-good story, tell someone. Comfortable, tell someone else, take the best from a great free country that is able to achieve your dreams and then go home. First mistake, Jusuf has no intention of leaving his island district in Milan and his home overlooking the Pirelli Tower, will commute between their two countries.
And then the second error, hope you do not sell, we offer you like all the most precious things. For centuries we have been able to create culture, to realize dreams, to give hope, and maybe we are forgotten now we think that culture is just a cost, that dreams have a price tag, and the hope is admissible only if make ends meet. As
- third and biggest mistake - we are told how immigrants who built the city, successful entrepreneurs started with nothing, and we have forgotten, too often, that once "we were the Albanians."
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