Italian Singer-Songwriter Lucio Dalla Dies on Swiss Concert Tour at Age 68
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6 A&E WWW.PGCITIZEN.CA | March 2, 2012 Italian singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla dies on Swiss concert tour at age 68 Frances D’EMILIO The Associated Press nine million copies worldwide and was Cambio, which sold nearly 1.4 million copies, sung by the late opera great Luciano according to Dalla’s website. ROME — Lucio Dalla, an Italian singer- Pavarotti with Dalla at a 1992 concert in His version of Prokofiev’s Peter and the songwriter who sold millions of records Modena. Dalla toured abroad frequent- Wolf was performed in Rome’s Santa Ce- worldwide, died Thursday in Switzer- ly, including in the United States, some- cilia auditorium in 1997. He also wrote an land during a European concert tour, his times with another famed Italian folksong opera Tosca. Amore disperato, inspired by management company said. writer, Francesco De Gregori. Puccini’s Tosca. Dalla, 68, apparently died of a heart attack Italy’s president, Giorgio Napolitano, was Dalla composed songs for some of Italy’s in a Montreux hotel after eating breakfast, among those quickly paying tribute. most famous film directors, including Mario according to Ph.D srl Music Managment, “[Dalla was] a strong and original voice Monicelli, Michelangelo Antonioni, Carlo which is based in his native city of Bologna, who contributed to renew and promote Verdone and Michele Placido. Italy. Italian song in the world. He was an artist Dalla had eclectic artistic interests, and Dallas, whose musical genres ranged beloved by so many Italians of several gen- was also the curator of a contemporary art from folk to jazz to classical, gave a con- erations,” the president said in a condolence gallery in Bologna for many years. cert Wednesday in the Swiss city known for message. Much of Dalla’s work was inspired by his its music and “was in fine form,” said Pas- Promoted by another Italian singer passion for the sea. He had a home on the cal Pellegrino, the director of Montreux’s and songwriter, Gino Paoli, Dalla started Tremiti Islands, a tiny archipelago off Italy’s “culture season.” performing in the 1960s. southeastern coast. dalla Pellegrino said the performance was In 1977, Dalla’s first album with songs “[He] lived his whole life with the desire warmly applauded and Dalla stayed on to written by himself – How Deep is the Sea including the popular Banana Republic. to amaze and the desire to be amazed,” Ital- chat with fans. – came out. He produced new albums Another popular song was his 1990 ian singer Claudio Baglioni was quoted as Dalla’s haunting melody Caruso sold nearly every year over the next few years, Beware of the Wolf on the album saying by the Italian news agency LaPresse. Documentary about ducks in Hudson Bay investigates our role in the cycle of life Katherine MONK Postmedia News He shot groundbreaking footage of the hunters, carvers and kids. variations in the snow and ice. ducks diving for food, and noticed the criti- In the opening frames, an Inuit narrator You can hear it. Whether it’s the sound of People of a Feather cal relationship between food availability tells us the Belcher Islands are the birthplace the snow underfoot, from a dry squeak to a A documentary by: Joel Heath and the peo- and open sea ice, which allows the birds to of documentary film, since it’s where Robert wet scrunch, or the rumble of sea ice crash- ple of Sanikiluaq swim and dive for urchins. Flaherty first started shooting First Nations ing into itself, everything in this movie be- Parental advisory: disturbing content Eider ducks can only hold their breath for people living off the Arctic tundra. His film, gins to speak its own language. Running time: 90 minutes so long, and if the food source is too far from Nanook of the North, would have included Heath’s real victory as a filmmaker is that Rating: Four stars out of five an open hole, they essentially starve – very, the people of Sanikiluaq, but the footage he makes us city folk hear it. very slowly. was lost. He accomplishes this rather sophisticated The movie may talk a lot about feathers, We see all this horror in Heath’s film, and ”Our story was never told,” says the voice task through the pacing, and his insistence but Joel Heath’s documentary about the it’s truly depressing: Watching a bird strug- of Inuit history. on certain recurring images of the ducks in changing Arctic has the weight of a freight gle to live, only to watch its life extinguish Heath decides to pick up on this compel- their natural environment. train. before our eyes, is one of those experiences ling piece of cinematic history, and eventu- The whole tone matches the sparseness An intricately layered story that stitches that leaves you feeling drained and dirty – ally fills the hole, by re-enacting daily rou- of the landscape, and we eventually enter a the viewer into the very fabric of our nation, complicit in humanity’s arrogant mistakes. tine as it would have been 100 years ago. slightly altered state through long takes and as well as the life cycle itself, People of a Yet, for all the emotional hardship of the Recruiting the elders and young adults of sparse narration. The shift in stance lends Feather begins with a simple mystery. experience, we also feel better prepared the community to recreate their old clothes, us a different vantage point on the world In the late 1990s, the Inuit living on the for the challenges ahead, and that’s where sledges, and the hunting techniques they around us, as well as our innate partnership Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay noticed a Heath’s documentary goes beyond being used for millennia, Heath broadens the with the planet. massive die-off of Eider ducks. Thousands of a straight-ahead message movie, or a one- scope of his film in a way that seems to By the time we realize how all the Eider birds with the coveted down littered the sea sided activist documentary. match the vastness of the ice itself. ducks died – and witness the heartbreaking ice, eventually prompting a scientific inves- Skilfully weaving this latent sense of hu- Void of any human architecture, this sight of starving, drowning birds – we feel tigation by the Canadian Wildlife Service. man responsibility into a larger quilt of hu- white and blue landscape seems and feels connected, and that’s key. Graduate biologist Joel Heath was part man history, we can find strength in our timeless. Yet, over the course of the film, Where many environmentally motivated of the ensuing study, and for the first few unstoppable ability to adapt and problem- using stunning time-lapse photography movies make human beings the villain, months of his assignment, he sat in a white solve. 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