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Sanremo Music Festival 1952
The Sanremo Music Festival 1952 (), officially the 2nd Italian Song Festival (), was the second annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Sanremo Casino in Sanremo between 28 and 30 January 1952, and broadcast by (RAI). The show was presented by Nunzio Filogamo. According to the rules of this edition every song was performed by a couple of singers or groups, with the five artists selected performing multiple songs. The winner of the festival was "Vola colomba", performed by Nilla Pizzi, who occupied all the podium places in that edition. Participants and results Broadcast All shows were broadcast on Secondo Programma, beginning at 22:00 CET. References {{Authority control 1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, ... 1952 in Italian music 1952 music fest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nunzio Filogamo
Nunzio Filogamo (; 20 September 1902 – 24 January 2002) was an Italian television and radio presenter, actor and singer. Life and career Born in Palermo, Filogamo moved to Turin at a young age, then he studied law at the Sorbonne University and at the Turin University, where he graduated. After working for two years as a lawyer, he started a career as a stage actor, entering the companies of Dina Galli and Irma and Emma Gramatica. In 1934 he debuted as a radio actor in the variety show ''I quattro moschettieri'', which lasted four years and gave him a large popularity. After the outbreak of war, Filogamo was hired to host several variety events for soldiers and wounded people; later, he continued to work as a presenter of the shows reserved for the Allied forces which were held at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome. Filogamo's fame is mainly linked to the Sanremo Music Festival, of which he hosted five editions including the first ever in 1951.Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scagli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Alberto Rossi
Carlo Alberto Rossi (30 August 1921 – 12 April 2010) was an Italian composer and record producer. Life and career Born in Rimini, when he was 8 years old Rossi started performing as a child actor and singer in operettas. Antonio Virgilio Savona; Michele Lo Straniero (1990). "Rossi, Carlo Alberto". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore. pp. 1050. In 1936, he moved with his family in Milan, where he studied at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory and formed a vocal ensamble, I Barboni. In 1939, he made his professional debut as a songwriter with "Tango di Manuelita". During World War II, he served as an official in the infantry, also composing some military anthems and a musical comedy. After the war, Rossi began a full-time career as a composer; among his early hits were Natalino Otto's “Conosci mia cugina” and “Non ho più pace”, and Lidia Martorana's "Amore baciami", which success revamped in the early 1960s thanks to a Pat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rai Teche
Rai Teche is a company that manages all archived material that has been produced and broadcast by Italian national public broadcaster RAI throughout its history. History The company, originally called ''Teche e servizi tematici/educativi RAI'', was formed in 1995 to categorise and preserve all materials documenting the history of Italian television from over 20 different channels. In 1999, the old databases were merged and a multimedia catalogue of all broadcasts from the three main channels was published online, along with more than 300,000 hours of historical TV material, prior to the launch of the online radio station in 2000. Thematic channels were also introduced on digital terrestrial television, with access to the catalogue being limited to those within the company. The content consists of all aired material, including that to which Rai Teche does not have the rights. In February 2014, Rai’s board of directors authorised high-quality digitisation of the historical ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turin
Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is mainly on the western bank of the Po (river), River Po, below its Susa Valley, and is surrounded by the western Alpine arch and Superga hill. The population of the city proper is 856,745 as of 2025, while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 1.7 million inhabitants. The Turin metropolitan area is estimated by the OECD to have a population of 2.2 million. The city was historically a major European political centre. From 1563, it was the capital of the Duchy of Savoy, then of the Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861), Kingdom of Sardinia ruled by the House of Savoy, and the first capital of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1865. Turin is sometimes called "the cradle of Italian liberty" for having been the politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radiocorriere TV
''Radiocorriere TV'' (since 1954) (English: ''Radio Courier TV''), formerly ''Radiocorriere'' (1930–1954) and ''Radio Orario'' (1925–1930), is an Italian-language listings magazine, with weekly print editions published in Italy between 1925 and 1995 under the press of RAI (formerly URI). It rebooted under publisher RCC Edizioni and owner Rai Trade with print editions from 1999–2008, then closed due to poor sales and reopened as an online magazine in 2012. Since 1995 it has also had occasional special-edition print runs under various publishers. On 3 January 2014 Rai Teche published online the complete 1925–1995 archives of URI/RAI's ''Radio Orario''/''Radiocorriere''/''TV''. History and profile The magazine was founded in January 1925 in Rome with the name ''Radiorario'' as the official magazine of URI ("Unione Radiofonica Italiana", i.e. "Italian Radio Union", Italy's first licensed broadcasting company which had formed in Turin a few months before), with the aim of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central European Time
Central European Time (CET) is a standard time of Central, and parts of Western Europe, which is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The UTC offset, time offset from UTC can be written as UTC+01:00. It is used in most parts of Europe and in several African countries. CET is also known as Middle European Time (MET, German: :de:Mitteleuropäische Zeit, MEZ) and by colloquial names such as Amsterdam Time, Berlin Time, Brussels Time, Budapest Time, Madrid Time, Paris Time, Stockholm Time, Rome Time, Prague time, Warsaw Time or Romance Standard Time (RST). The 15th meridian east is the central axis per UTC+01:00 in the world system of time zones. As of 2023, all member state of the European Union, member states of the European Union observe summer time (daylight saving time), from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October. States within the CET area switch to Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+02:00) for the summer. The next change to CET is scheduled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rai Radio 2
Rai Radio 2 is an Italian radio channel operated by the state-owned public-broadcasting organization RAI and specializing in talk programmes and popular music. History The origins of the channel can be traced back to 21 March 1938, when the EIAR – which was to become Radio Audizioni Italiane (RAI) in 1944 – began transmitting a second, separately programmed radio service in major cities. Following the end of World War II and reconstruction and improvement of the surviving transmitter network, radio broadcasting was reorganized (with effect from 3 November 1946) to provide two national channels covering most of the country. The first channel was known as the ''Rete Azzurra'' (blue network) and the second as the ''Rete Rossa'' (red network). These "neutral" names were chosen to imply that, while at any one time each channel aimed to provide programming of a contrasting style to that available on the other, the two channels were nominally equal in status and had an equally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armando Fragna
Armando Fragna (2 August 1898 – 15 August 1972) was an Italian composer, conductor and musician. Life and career Born in Torre Annunziata, Naples, at just 18 years old Fragna started a long collaboration with Ettore Petrolini as the score composer of his theatrical works. In 1930 he started a career as a film score composer. In 1942 he entered EIAR as the conductor of its "Orchestra Nostrana". He also composed several pop songs, and two of them entered the competition at the Sanremo Music Festival. Among his most successful songs, "I pompieri di Viggiù" and "I cadetti di Guascogna". Selected filmography * ''The Haller Case'' (1933) * ''Just Married'' (1934) * '' The Little Schoolmistress'' (1934) * ''Those Two'' (1935) * ''The Phantom Gondola'' (1936) * ''The Amnesiac'' (1936) * '' The Castle Ball'' (1939) * ''Red Tavern'' (1940) * ''The Firemen of Viggiù'' (1949) * ''Totò Tarzan'' (1950) * ''The Count of Saint Elmo'' (1950) * ''The Cadets of Gascony'' (1950) * ''The Steams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enzo Ceragioli
Enzo Ceragioli (October 1, 1908, Seravezza - June 10, 1999, Milan''Enciclopedia della radio'', Peppino Ortoleva, Barbara Scaramucci, Garzanti, year 2003, page 160; seGoogle books/ref>) was an Italian conductor, composer, arranger, and pianist. His versatility has been expressed in a wide variety of musical genres, from Jazz to Swing, Light music, Symphonic music, Operetta and Sacred music. Prominent figure of jazz in Italy, Ceragioli recorded for Odeon Records Odeon Records is a record label founded in 1903 by Max Straus and Heinrich Zuntz of the International Talking Machine Company in Berlin, Germany. The label's name and logo come from the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe in Paris. History Straus a ... the albums of the series "Italian jazzists" and the series "Ceragioli jazz pianist" and "Ceragioli famous jazz pianist". References Italian male composers Italian male conductors (music) Italian male pianists 20th-century Italian conductors (music) 20th-century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dino Olivieri
Dino Olivieri (1905-1963), was an Italian composer of light music and conductor. He is most well known for his composition of the music for the 1936 song ''Tornerai'' (lyrics by Nino Rastelli); now more famously known as J'attendrai "J'attendrai" (French for "I will wait") is a popular French song first recorded by Rina Ketty in 1938. It became the big French song during World War II; a counterpart to Lale Andersen's " Lili Marlen" in Germany and Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Aga ... (Musiker and Musiker, 2014, p. 2001).Musiker, Naomi and Reuben Musiker (2014) Conductors and Composers of Popular Orchestral Music: A Biographical and Discographical Sourcebook, Routledge References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Olivieri, Dino 1905 births 1963 deaths 20th-century Italian male musicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Mannino
Franco Mannino (25 April 1924 – 1 February 2005) was an Italian film composer, pianist, opera director, playwright and novelist. Biography Mannino was born in Palermo. He was married with Uberta Visconti di Modrone, a sister to the film and stage director Luchino Visconti (see below). He died in Rome in 2005. Music career He made his debut as pianist at the age of 16. He conducted the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Canada between 1982 and 1986, among the others. In all he wrote more than 440 compositions including opera, ballet, oratorios, symphonies, chamber music and music for the theatre. In addition there was his music for more than a hundred films by some of the best-known directors of his day, including Luchino Visconti with whom he collaborated several times, including such films as '' Death in Venice'' (conductor) and '' Ludwig'' (piano and arrangements for orchestra of music by Richard Wagner: mainly "Porazzi-theme" and excerpts from ''Tristan and Isolde''), '' C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorni Kramer
Francesco Kramer Gorni (22 July 1913 – 26 October 1995), known as Gorni Kramer, was an Italian songwriter, musician and band leader. Biography He was born Francesco Kramer Gorni in Rivarolo Mantovano, Lombardy. Despite the exotic sound of Gorni Kramer in the Italian language, which led part of his audience to believe he was a foreigner or had adopted a fancy pseudonym, it was his real name. His family name was Gorni, and Kramer his middle name, after the American cyclist Frank Kramer (cyclist), Frank Kramer, who won the road race at the 1912 World Championships and made a strong impression on Gorni's father. Kramer learned music at a very young age, thanks to his father, a musician. The first instrument he learned how to play was the accordion, with which he performed as a child in his father's band. He then studied double bass at the Parma Conservatory and obtained his diploma in 1930. He started working as a musician for dance bands, then in 1933, aged 20, he formed his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
