Noa's special concert for Fondazione Luchetta, Ota D'Angelo (Trieste, Italy)

Noa's performance in Trieste (Italy) July 22nd. At 21.30. The show will be at Piazza Unità di Italia (scheduled to be broadcasted by RAI Uno) It's a charity special event called "I nostri angeli" (Our angels)is the closing gala of the International Journalism Award "Marco Luchetta" organized by the "Fondazione Luchetta, Ota, D’Angelo, Hrovatin Onlus" together with RAI Tv. Noa will perform together with Carlo Fava & The Solis String Quartet.

In a courtyard in East Mostar a troupe from the Italian national broadcasting corporation RAI is shooting a documentary in front of a shelter where tens of people are assembled; many of them are children and in fact the special documentary that the journalists from Trieste are making for the national television news channel TG1 is about children as war victims. Suddenly, a mortar shell is fired from the hills around the capital of Herzegovina; it hits the site, killing the three correspondents Marco Luchetta, Saša Ota e Dario D’Angelo, three information service operators, pay the highest price to report the atrocities of the war waging just outside our country. A few weeks later, the city of Trieste mourns another war victim, TV cameraman Miran Hrovatin, murdered in Somalia together with TG3 correspondent, Ilaria Alpi. Following the will of friends and colleagues a non-profit organization, the "Luchetta, Ota, D'Angelo, Hrovatin Fund for Children War Victims" was founded. A building owned by the Province of Trieste was refurbished and in 1998 it became a Reception Center for severely ill children and their families, mainly victims of the wars that are bloodstaining the world More info at: http://www.fondazioneluchetta.org
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The Israeli artist has sung yesterday and it will also make this evening, but without Rim Banna and Radiodervish Noa: «With the dialogue we will build the peace»

Achinoam Nini, universally known as Noa, Israeli of yemenite origins lived up to 17 years to New York and then returned to Tel Aviv where alive still it is a messenger of peace. Message that has recently launched to Naplesl, before her concert in Pozzuoli, and it launches again from Triest where last night she’s exhibited within the Luchetta Prize, performing four passages devoted to the peace and the childrens: Shalom, Ave Maria, Beautiful that way soundtrack, and in duet with the singer Carlo Fava, the Sanremo Festival song “Un discorso in generale ”.

And she will be still tonight protagonist in Piazza Unità, where - after the succeeded prologue with the Bollywood Brass Band - Folkest returns for the third consecutive year to free entry.

But the Israeli singer, that is about to be honored with title of Gentlewoman of the Republic, will exhibit unfortunately alone: after the forfait of the Palestinian Rim Banna, that said very shaken for how much is happening to Gaza, and that therefore doesn't feels to hold shows in this period, is added to the last moment that one of the Radiodervish that, to the light of the escalation of violence in the Middle-East, in a signed Nabil’s note and addressed to Folkest, they excuse for the missed share.

<< "For me this is the moment of the pain and of dismay and of the concentration close to my darlings in Lebanon that succumb under the bombs of an absurd war." The organizers count that the soirèe is, however pleasant and constitutes a moment of peace. Also to the light of these antecedents, the first question to an available Noa that answers to the journalists with in arm her two splendid, curled children it is not able whether to concern the delicate Israeli-Lebanese matter. She, pacifist and paladin of the dialogue, don't have doubts.

<< It is an awful moment, but there is a deep difference among how it happens in Cisgiordania and the events in Lebanon. We are able and we must talk to the Palestinians, I am sure that peace will be possible, also they wants peace and safety: it is necessary to talk to the moderates to sustain them. To avoid that on one side and from the other the extremists can take the upper hand. The Hezbollah’s don't want instead the dialogue, it is necessary to disarm them, set Lebanon free, victim of Hezbollah and extremists, to allow the country to reconstruct himself. With the international support the Lebanese government can make itself, is what the greatest part of the Israeli people desires. But can we speak about music? >>.

Said, done. And when the matter moves, with a sigh of relief, returns her the smile. Draft, vivacious, deep eyes as her understanding of a world where exist a lot of grey tones, it will bring in plaza a show that is a whole than she has done in the past. Enthusiastic of her recorded album live in Israel with the Solis String Quartet, marvellous people it defines them, and as many enthusiastic of next project that will see them in study for an album from the strong visual impact and not only musical.

The relationship among world music and globalization?

<< I see globalization not so much as a push to the homologation, but rather a powerful catalyst against this tendency because the moment in which the world becomes more united small, makes to appear on the surface in the individual in natural way the desire to express himself, to show his/her own individuality. And This is the positive effect of the globalization. And then the term world I don't like music, it is limiting. I love the music of every place, the music for me is music and enough, I detest the labels, in the world music there is an unbelievable quantity of variety. As hook the crossover, the to extend at the most the confinements. And this is the positive one of the actual world: I, been born in a place, grown in another, I am open to all of this that is; my palette is enormous and I can create a mosaic, and even if I don't know that name to give him, is very beautiful."

Events as Live 8 can contribute to change the people?

"Yes and no at the same time. They are important in how much gives to many the possibility to express him, to express their empathy, and this is very beautiful, and the music has this of magic, that the people it brings above the daily things and it allows to communicate on a superior plan. But we cannot be thought that such events resolve the problems, every must make their own part."

With the Quartet she has recorded an album of Neapolitan music released in October. What has brought her toward this kind?

"The music is universal, it strikes the heart, but to deeper level there is other. My family thought in Jerusalem with nostalgy and desire, and in the Neapolitan song is strong that desire, that melancholy for a distant country, allowed for going looking for fortune, the same desire, the same depth feeling that we share. There is then the romanticism, strong, and at the end there is that something that cannot be explained. Why do you fall in love yourself of a person rather than of another? Why do you like a music rather than another? It is the magic"

This evening, Noa will be accompanied by the Acoustic band composed by the guitarist Gil Dor, met to a school of music and from her defined "a great friend over that a precious colleague" and from the percussionist Zohar Fresco together with the Neapolitan Solis String Quartet.

Yesterday Noa has accused an indisposition, from which is taken back immediately, and its first worry has been to not to be able to visit the small guests of the Foundation Luchetta, that instead comforted by the medical support, it will go to visit today.

Gianfranco Terzoli – “Il Piccolo” 23/06/2006