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Concert of<strong> Rock Culture All-Star Orchestra<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What if, in the end, they were nothing more than songs, and Edoardo Bennato was right &#8211; a puppet without strings from the good old days?<br \/>\nEven worse, what if, by chance, those who are lovingly ironic about the sacredness unleashed by a 3\u00bd-minute bass guitar and drum piece, weren\u2019t wrong?<br \/>\nIs it really senseless to search for echoes of the infinite in the lines of sheet music?<br \/>\nActually, finding the links that exist between rock \u2018n\u2019 roll and the desire for truth is an extremely legitimate experiment, because a fact has been played and sung ever since rock was a newborn musical genre in the arms of blues and gospel. There is a little bit of everything, as far as subject matter goes, in the rock that looks out on the second century of its history in good shape. In a way that has Calvino\u2019s characteristic levity, but is almost never banal, one can listen to fundamental questions of existence between the text and the staff, regarding the search for identity, neurosis and frustrations (\u201cJesus, Jesus help me \/ I\u2019m alone in this world \/ And a [messed] up world it is, too\u201d sing U2 in Wake Up Dead Man), even the mystery of the presence\/absence of God in the world.<br \/>\nThe final party of the Meeting 2012 is the ideal soundtrack for the exhibit curated by John Waters, \u201cThree Chords and the Desire for Truth.\u201d And it wouldn\u2019t be blasphemous to enlist St. Augustine as a concert opener, since he affirmed that, intonation notwithstanding, \u201che who sings, prays twice.\u201d It\u2019s true: on the Meeting stage, as on the scratchy vinyl record players or the more modern CD players, resound not canonical prayers, but powerful ballads and seven-note staccato runs seasoned with hoarse and powerful voices, sometimes mellow, but, as a rule, always incisive. But what are songs like I Still Haven\u2019t Found What I\u2019m Looking For, Sisters of Mercy, or Gotta Serve Somebody, if not the soundtrack that accompanies modern man\u2019s yearning for the infinite? There is more than \u201cspectacle\u201d or \u201centertainment\u201d in the sheet music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Who has not experienced evening as it descends harshly on the day, exhaustion, finitude, tears that run down one\u2019s face? Man cannot live without a certainty about his destiny. It is possible for each of us, here and now, to stretch out like a bridge over the rough waters of life, as Simon and Garfunkel say in their masterpiece, Bridge Over Troubled Water. And in singing of the admirable Sisters of Mercy with Leonard Cohen, we lonely men have a choice, too: either we become saints, or we remain sinners.<br \/>\n(Paolo Guiducci)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three chords and a longing for the truth. 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