Blog #1
Amore Mio Aiutami- Piero Piccioni This piece is the definition of classical drama. The melody's melodramatic, almost wistful nature leaves the listener in a dream-like trance. It harkens back to the late Baroque and Romantic opera eras in which layered, polyphonic harmonies and expressive melodies are used to transport the listener into the world of the composer. What makes this piece so jarring is the fact that it is not a composition by somebody long ago, but instead was released the year after my dad was born, in 1969. This piece is the main theme of the Italian Commedia dell'arte film Help Me, My Love, written, directed, and starred by the acclaimed Italian actor Alberto Sordi. This film stars the main characters, Giovanni and Raffaella, who are happily married for ten years, but their relationship goes into crisis when Raffaella falls in love with another man, a handsome forty-year-old man she knew during the concerts of chamber music she weekly attends with her mother. I...