Music for Freedom, 1975

Location: Rome, Italy Creator: Luigi Perelli The film was made on the occasion of a major event organized by the Italian Communist Youth Federation in February 1975 at the Palazzo dello Sport in Rome, where fifteen thousand flocked spectators to follow and participate in the performance of Italian and foreign singers, actors, musicians and musical ensembles including: Ivan Della Mea, Paolo Pietrangeli, Giovanna Marini, Paolo Ciarchi, Ernesto Bassignano, the Amerikanta, Rosa Balistreri, Maria Carta, Ines Carmona, Luigi Nono, Giorgio Gaslini, Mario Schiano, Bruno Cirino, Gian Maria Volonté, Luigi Proietti, Stefano Satta Flores; and the Illimani Inti and Quilapayun, who testified with their songs and music about the fascist repression in Chile and the popular struggle against the military dictatorship. With its intertwining of songs, performances of contemporary and free jazz music, recited interventions by the actors, and with a basic theme linked to the great democratic battles of recent years, “Music for freedom” is proposed as a musical film show of a completely different type from television musicals, conditioned by the cultural industry and characterized by the tendency to pure escape. 01. Opening credits, alternating credits with images of the students' entrance to the event 02. Pan of the audience and inq of the stage; pan from the top of the Palazzo dello Sport in Rome 03. A young man from the stage presents the evening alternating with images of the outside of the arena 04. Ernesto Bassignano presents his own song “Moby Dick”; alternating with repertory images from 1968 05. Performance by the musical group Amerikanta 06. Performance by Rosa Balistreri 07. Performance by Ines Carmona reading a poem by Pablo Neruda; repertory images of Neruda's funeral 08. Pan from the stands of the Palazzetto applauding at the end of the reading; repertory images of Neruda's funeral 09. Performance by the musical group Inti-Illimani 10. Applause at the end of the performance and thanks from the group for Italy's support for the Chilean resistance; Pan del Palazzetto with the audience standing 11. Second song for the group Inti-Illimani; inq among the audience while singing the song 12. Performance by Mario Schiano's group; pp of the members during the solo; inq among the audience 13. Paolo Pietrangeli sings “Karl Marx Strasse”; audience inq 14. Ivan Della Mea sings “O Dear Wife” 15. Performance by Paolo and Alberto Ciarchi 16. Performance by Giovanna Marini; repertory images 17. Performance by Luigi Nono; composition with repertory images of the concentration camps of the Second World War; applause at the end 18. Performance by Giorgio Gaslini's Quartet; audience inq 19. Performance by Maria Carta 20. Stefano Satta Flores reads a song by Togliatti; inq among the audience 21. Gigi Proietti reads part of Salvador Allende's text delivered to the United Nations 22. Performance by Gian Maria Volonté alternating with repertory images 23. Performance by the Chilean group Quilapayun; inq among the audience 24. Stock images as you start reading the translation (?) of the lyrics of the song 25. New Quilapayun song with stock images 26. Translation (?) and comment on the text in Italian 27. Quilapayun song 28. Translation of the text with public inq 29. Song by Quilapayun with simultaneous translation into Italian of the song; repertory images 30. Conclusion of the performance; inq among the applauding audience 31. Credits and thanks