Chilling monologue from the maestro who talks about his illness and then returns to play after 2 years
Giovanni Allevi gives emotions to Sanremo 2024 with an intense monologue in which he talks about his illness and thanks the gifts it has given him anyway. Then he returns to play after 2 years in front of an audience before launching the new tour.
giovanni allevi the monologue in sanremo 2024
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“Suddenly everything collapsed for me” is how he began his monologue Sanremo 2024 Giovanni Allevi. “I haven’t played a piano in front of an audience for almost two years. At the last concert at the Concert House in Vienna the pain in my back was so bad that at the final applause I couldn’t get up from my chair. And I still didn’t know I was sick Then came the diagnosis, very heavy, I looked at the ceiling with the sensation of having a fever of 39 for a consecutive year. I lost a lot, my job, my hair but not the hope and the desire to imagine.”
the gifts
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And after the story of his illness, Giovanni Allevi looks to hope and the future. “It was as if the pain also gave me unexpected gifts. Which ones? I’ll give you an example. Not long ago before all this happened during a concert in a full theater I noticed an empty seat, I felt faint and yet at the beginning I played with 10-15 people in an empty hall and I was very happy. Today I don’t know what I would give to play in front of 15 people. Numbers don’t matter. It seems paradoxical coming from here (laughs, ed.) Because each of us and you is unique and unrepeatable and infinite in its own way.” The gifts of the disease were also to make him discover the beauty of creation “the shades of sunrise and sunset with the red that changes” depending on whether there are clouds or not. He then thanks the healthcare staff and starts a thunderous applause from the audience. Then calls for applause for the many large and small patients like him who he calls “warriors, maybe we can find another term but to me it only comes to mind as warriors”. He is moved by thinking of the parents of the little warriors: “As promised I brought you all with me here on stage, shining souls, examples of authentic life”.
hair
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“One more gift, but how many are there…, when everything collapses and only the essential remains, the judgment that comes from the outside no longer counts. And as Kant intuited at the end of the Critique of Practical Reason, the starry sky can continue to twirling in its perfect orbits may be immersed in a condition of continuous change and yet in me there is something that remains and it is reasonable to think that it will remain forever. I am what I am and if so, what will be an external judgement. I want to accept the new John” e he takes off his hat showing his graying curly hair.
While the audience shouts “beautiful” from the audience they get excited. “To thank you, and to give hope to all those who are struggling, I will play the piano again in front of the public”. Amadeus approaches again underlining the emotion experienced. The maestro warns how “I have two fractured vertebrae, the d10 and the I know the technical name and the tingling and trembling in the fingers cognitive neuropathy. But as I said in that last concert in Vienna I will play with all my soul”. He performs with Tomorrow “so that tomorrow for all of us there will always be a more beautiful day waiting for us”. And everyone applauds at the end of his exciting performance.
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