In a few days Renzo Arbore will celebrate his birthday
Well yes, I confess candidly, I grew up on bread and Renzo Arbore. No other radio and television personality has bewitched me, bewitched, fascinated, intrigued and amused me like the brilliant talent of Foggia. In a few days, exactly the 24nd June, will celebrate his 85esimo birthday and we at Musa News have certainly not forgotten it.
Talking about Renzo Arbore may seem like an almost useless exercise, since everyone knows him, appreciates him, loves him. No one like him has gone through the last fifty years of radio and television as an absolute protagonist and only him, together with Gianni Boncompagni, he can say he made history wherever he worked.
Renzo Arbore, his masterpieces
Yellow Flag, High approval, Special for you, The other Sunday, Those of the night, Back all. I travel by heart and I apologize for all the omissions, but for an exhaustive list of Renzo Arbore's radio and television work, I would have had to request additional space from my publisher. His range of action is too wide and his roles are too many:
Radio host and television, radio author e TV, notes, musician, disc jockey, screenwriter e composer. June 24 is a somewhat special birthday as it reaches an intermediate but still important milestone, the 85th anniversary of a probably unrepeatable artist.
Friends of a lifetime
At the time of writing we are not aware if Mamma Rai, who owes so much to the Genius of Foggia, will dedicate a special to him on the occasion of this important anniversary. It would really be the minimum wage against an artist who for over fifty years has marked the state television company as nobody and who has given prestige to that television set he defined in a song by him, Life is all a quiz, The "new hearth"Domestic.
Unfortunately, many belonging to that magnificent band of eternal, incorrigible and brilliant boys, could not participate in the celebrations since they are no longer there. Gianni Boncompagni, Mario Marenco, Franco Bracardi, Luciano De Crescenzo, Richard Pazzaglia, Massimo Catalano they have already taken leave of the public of the world.
The well-known faces who have to tell him: Thank you
Each of his radio - television creations deserves a specific space, as well as the characters he brought to the knowledge of the general public from Roberto Benigni a Milly Carlucci, from Nino Frassica a Marisa Laurito, from Michele Mirabella a Maria Grazia Cucinottto, from Luana Ravegnini a Ilaria D'Amico. To which the beloved of him Toto, he would surely have commented: "In the face of baking soda!".
These days the great Renzo Arbore has announced that he will leave mythical Italian Orchestra, but it certainly won't rest. On the contrary. For the next few months, several projects are scheduled to start, where, however, music will always play a primary role. And for the end of the year… the best and most deserved gift.
In Foggia, here is Casa Arbore
Also in this case Renzo Arbore is an extraordinary exception. In our beautiful country, too often forgetful, too many great characters are forgotten as soon as they disappear. Only a few days ago she disappeared Liliana De Curtis, at 89, unable to see the museum dedicated to his great dad, Toto. Many words and promises, but 0 facts.
The city of Foggia, on the other hand, has done things in time and the absolute protagonist of the event will be able to celebrate it in attendance. "At the end of the year I inaugurate Casa Arbore in Foggia with all my collections of radios, plastic objects, souvenirs taken around the world”, This is the happy announcement of the artist from Foggia. No one, more than him, deserved this recognition, because no one is like Renzo Arbore. Greetings Master!
