#hundredcities (21) assemblea musicale teatrale - venezia In his beautiful book "Il mio amico Giorgio Gaber," published in September and which I just finished reading, Gian Piero Alloisio tells the story of Stefania, a very beautiful cousin with whom he spent many afternoons as a teenager and of whom he was secretly in love. Then the years went by, and she got married. One spring day in 1978, while Alloisio was in Venice for a concert with the Assemblea Musicale Teatrale, as the supporting act for Francesco Guccini, Alberto Canepa called him and told him to call his mother in Genoa immediately. His mother informed him that Stefania had died in childbirth at the hospital; fortunately, the baby was safe. The news struck Gian Piero, who wrote a song in a rush that told the story of Stefania interspersed with his impressions of Venice, the city where he found himself at that moment. Months went by. One summer evening in Syracuse, after a concert on the very night that Mario Kempes' Argentina won the World Cup (and Flaco was rightly celebrating with abundant toasts), Alloisio played the song for Guccini, who was deeply moved: during this period, Angela, his second wife, was pregnant with Teresa. The piece, which had been registered by Alloisio only for the lyrics (as he was not yet a member of SIAE as a composer), while the music was credited to Bruno Biggi, bassist of the Assemblea Musicale Teatrale, underwent a few minor modifications to the lyrics by Guccini (thus co-signing it) and was included in his 1981 album "Metropolis," with a short arpeggiated guitar intro. However, the version sung by Alloisio appeared first, opening the beautiful album "Il sogno di Alice," the third from AMT, in 1979. (cit. Vito Vita link rotto