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"A Sublime Cantarelli Has Brought Emotions To The People in Cremona"

Saturday night a sublime Beppe Cantarelli has enraptured the audience in Cremona with his "Magnificat Recital" (composed & performed by him for lead tenor and acoustic guitar) at the historical and beautiful Saint Peter Church. An extraordinary success for the Italian-American tenor and composer who resides in Los Angeles for over twenty years but who got started, musically speaking, in Cremona, where he studied at the prestigious "Liceo Classico Daniele Manin" and where he performed for the very first time at the age of 13. Famous for his collaboration as guitarist, arranger, composer and producer with Italian icon Mina and also for his collaborations with such artists as Mariah Carey, Quincy Jones, Aretha Franklin, Bonnie Tyler, Joe Cocker, Leata Galloway, Laura Branigan, Loredana Bertè, Amii Stewart and Anna Oxa, he returned to "his" Cremona where he has gifted the audience with an extraordinary evening of prayer and meditation. His "Magnificat Recital", so rich and intense, has been named after one of his most famous compositions: his new "Magnificat," the one that was premiered by his Millennium Choir, conducted by Beppe Cantarelli himself, in the Vatican on Christmas Day 1999. Such historical performance has been part of the live worldwide broadcast "Open The Doors To Christ" from the Vatican, while Pope John Paul II opened the Holy Doors for the Great Jubilee of the Third Millennium. Two years later the same Millennium Choir, conducted by Beppe Cantarelli, proposed once again his "Magnificat" here in Cremona at the "Palazzo Cittanova." This time, with an arrangement for lead tenor and acoustic guitar, Cantarelli has performed it at the Saint Peter Church. Besides his "Magnificat" this famous composer, who has with reason and merit already placed his name in between the names of the most important composers of the history of music, has performed: "You Who Speak To The Angels," "The Blessing," "Hail Mary, Let There Be No More War," "Fly To Heaven My Canto," "We'll Always Be Free," "Listen To Your Soul," "Save Me," "There's A Time," "Show Me The Way," "Without You I's Be Blind," "Moon Don'T Say A Thing" and "Father, The Hour Has Come." As an encore he then dedicated to all the people intervened his "Our Father" that he performed in a duet version with the mezzo-soprano Paola Leveroni, who just returned from a triumphal "Traviata" directed by Franco Zeffirelli a few days ago at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (on an Arturo Toscanini Foundation's Production). A lot of people intervened and at the very end they tributed Beppe Cantarelli with their warm and endless applause that terminated with a final standing ovation: the most beautiful and special way to terminate this evening of real meditation before Christmas. In between the audience was also the vicar Monsignor Attilio Arcagni who welcomed everyone to this special evening and who also gave his blessings at the very end to all the people intervened, including several friends of Beppe Cantarelli from the "Liceo Classico Daniele Manin." The composer, who was born in Busseto (Parma), returned to the Saint Peter Church the morning after, Sunday 21st, to sing several of his compositions during the celebration of the 11am Mass.
From "La Cronaca di Cremona"
by Paolo Panni
December 23, 2003
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