Music and Family
Music and Family
This assignment for our next blog post was really a joy to put together. I decided to interview my Grandfather, Anthony Stamile (Poppy). Having that musical conversation with him about his past, his memories, and his thoughts on music, was a lovely time that we had together. It reminded me that there was so much that happened, so many stories he has, and so much to appreciate in it.
Below I have attached the video of our conversation. Here and there, you can hear my Grandma chiming in to the conversation :)
On asking about he and my Nana's special song, he explained that it was "Unchained Melody," a song released by the Righteous Brothers in 1965. I have heard this song all throughout growing up, as my grandparents have always loved it and dance to it!
As Poppy is fully Italian, he has great appreciation for Italian mandolin music -- He specifically referenced the soundtrack of The Godfather.
A few years ago, he and my grandmother went on a trip to Italy. They have so many stories to tell of this, but he loves talking about "that amazing Italian mandolinist" he saw!
Here is a short clip of one of the themes of The Godfather.
(the mandolins come in at about 00:45 in this recording)
The last clip I have is "Fly Me to the Moon" sung by Frank Sinatra, a popular singer my grandfather liked! This familiar song was written in 1954 by Bart Howard.
This was such a fun and meaningful project to put together, and I really enjoyed connecting with my
Grandfather!
Happy Reading...
Carrera
I liked what your grandfather had to say about Andrea Bocelli and paying music in the church. I also never listened to The Godfather Theme, but the mandolin is really cool. Finally, Fly Me to the Moon is such a good song and Frank Sinatra is such an iconic singer.
ReplyDeleteI liked hearing about how your grandfather interacted with music through his life and how he enjoyed it ! I couldn't imagine growing up without music readily available, I feel like it's opened up my own music taste so much. Growing up and being able to see music evolve from the 40s to now must be really interesting looking back, so much has happened since then. I also enjoyed hearing your Grandma chime in to the conversation with her thoughts too !
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