Just today, on the day when music, art and culture mourn the passing of Franco Battiato, the project for the Casa dei Cantautori is presented in Genoa, which will be built in the spaces in the abbey of San Giuliano in Genoa.
A museum-non-museum, financed with over 3 million euros by the Ministry of Culture, which will see the light in 2023 with a multimedia exhibition path, while a second lot provides for the recovery of the church and the creation of a training center for young people with concert halls and temporary exhibitions.
"I have promoted and supported with conviction the idea of the Casa dei Cantautori in Genoa because there is a theme of redemption for that Italian songwriting for too long looked at with inattention but which has formed entire generations also from the point of view of values - said the minister for culture Dario Franceschini who spoke today by videoconference at the presentation of the project -. Thousands and thousands of boys and girls grew up listening and listening to those words and messages they contained and transmitted. On the Casa dei Cantautori the Ministry of Culture has done a substantial investment to have it born in Genoa where it was right for it to be born given the importance of the songwriting scene. In the future, we could also think of having other places in other parts ofItaly where individual traditions are remembered. The Casa dei Cantautori - concluded Franceschini - will be a living place, not just for the conservation of memories "The presentation, led by the regional councilor for culture Ilaria Cavo, who with Dori Ghezzi is the soul of this project, opened with the exciting clip of Battiato at Carlo Felice who, playing 'Amore che come, amore che va' by De André, was moved to the point of having to leave the stage. "It's a day when you wake up with this news and you don't know if you make a right thing because it had to be a moment of happiness and that's it, instead then pains join together with happiness - said Dori Ghezzi -. But all this will give strength because this will also be his home one day and in some way it is a tribute that we pay him today.This will be a place where he will still live forever. "
"It is a special day because a great Italian musician is leaving, the music that we want to celebrate by recalling the Genoese and Ligurian tradition of Italian song, a modern form of poetry - said the governor Giovanni Toti - and I believe it will be a very suggestive where everyone, walking inside, will also remember a small piece of their life ".
"I promised Dori, the first time we met, that I would work hard to find a structure to remember not only Fabrizio but all our songwriters - recalled the councilor Cavo - but not just any place, a place that was 'alive'. Today I think we can say that, thanks to the commitment of many who believed in it - from Minister Franceschini who immediately embraced the project idea, to the working group, to the curators - this will be a 'living' house " .
Among the relics that will be kept in the Casa dl Cantautore 'also the famous Lambretta of the' Ballad of Cerutti Gino ', which belonged to Giorgio Gaber. (HANDLE).