HISTORICAL SYNTHESYS ABOUT THE ACTIVITIES OF THE NUORO'S CHOIR

The Nuoro's Choir, first among the Nuorese Choirs, was born in 1952, with eleven chorister, on the occasion of the starting of the radio-television broadcasting which promoted, in the postwar period, the studies and the recover of the ethno-musical heritage.

After the enormous success of the lucky emission "THE GOLDEN BELFRY", on 1955, the Choir started an intense or deep activity so that it was present, in Italy and abroad, at the most prestigious events of popular music and culture:
United States of America, Canada, Egypt, Spain, France, Wales, West Berlin, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, naturally in addition to the most important Italian towns.

Thanks to these profitable activity the Autonomous Sardinian Region, in 1977, awarded the title of "Meritorious in the Tourism and the Exhibitions" to the Nuoro's Choir.

On all the mentioned places, the Nuoro's Choir has brought, proposed and shared the songs and the sound of the Sardinia, particularly those of Her central mountainous area, so called Barbagia, taking part to so many concerts and radio-tv emissions, always getting flattering success. At an international level, at Gannat in France, the Nuoro's Choir, together with South American, Mexican, African and European Groups, recorded a beautiful disk.

Its cultural engagement has been recently acknowledged by the University of Sassari, on the occasion of the Inaugural Day for the 433° Academic Year, with the Official Concert of the Nuoro's Choir.

Moreover, the Nuoro's Choir has given an Official Concert for International Association Forêt Méditerranéenne during its 1989 Annual Journey in Sardinia.

The harmonies of the songs are posed on the model of the most classical singing at "Cuncordu" of Barbagia region, which composed by four different voices as follows: bass, "contra" (a kind of guttural baritone), soloist tuning up voice (in the timbre of the tenor) and a high half-voice, with some episodic "grafting" of a "fifth" voice (in Sardinia: "su zippiri " or the "Triplum" from Latin origin and memory).

The Nuoro's Choir is directed by Gian Paolo Mele, who is even the author of many melodies become famous: Adios Nugoro amada or Farewell beloved Nuoro, Ninna Nanna de Anton'Istene (Lullaby for Anton'Istene), Sa crapola (The deer), Mariedda (Little Mary), Duru Duru.

But the creativity is still and always at work: some other songs have been shaped by Gian Paolo Mele for Nuoro's Choir: Adios a Nugoro (Terraforte) or Farewell to Nuoro, Su castanzeri or The chestnut vendor, Ballu tundu or The Round Dance, Su candelarju or The Symbolic New Year Bread.

The inspiration "category" is always tied to classical Sardinian popular singing and the lyrics become to our "great" writer and poets of the Past: so that our history and memory may not be lost.

The repertoire of Nuoro's Choir is so composed by more then thirty songs, in part included in the last disk production, the Compact Disk that contains 25 "anthological" songs, the fifth in a series of recordings on disks and tapes.

The history of Nuoro's Choir is on a specific volume, published together with the Official Acts of the Meeting on the theme "Popular and near popular singing in Italy and Abroad", held in Nuoro on November 1990 (... and on this INTERNET site too!).

On October 19, 1985 The Nuoro's Choir took part to the Concert in honour of the Saint Father, the Pope John Paul II.

In the last years the Nuoro's Choir has been awarded many prizes and acknowledgements on several national (Florence, Rome, Siena, Padova, Bassano del Grappa, Arzignano, Milan, Verona and Trento) and international (Valencia, Basel, Nice, Stockholm) occasions.