“No more nightlife,” Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte declared on Monday in a TV address. Then this week it imposed a national lockdown. Last week, the Italian government banned all concerts, live events and public gatherings until April 3. Word of mouth and social media drove Italians across the country, especially in Rome, to participate in the spontaneous event. Milan’s prestigious music school, the Conservatorio, also lent its support. 'No More Nightlife': With Italy on Lockdown, Europe's Music Industry Enters 'Uncharted Water'
Organizers billed it on Facebook as a “way our country will, for just a few minutes, become one gigantic free concert.” The flash mob initiative was promoted by Fanfaroma, a Rome-based brass collective whose name is a combination of fanfarone (“braggart”) and Roma (“Rome”). “Let’s open the windows, step out onto the balcony and play together, even from a distance,” they said on Facebook. On Thursday, one day after the country’s death toll from the COVID-19 virus passed 1,000 - Italy is the second worst-hit country after China - organizers urged Italians to participate in the Flash Mob Sonoro (“Sound Flash Mob”).
More talented musicians filmed themselves playing a variety of tunes at their windows and posted their contributions on social media. In Rome and further south, many Italians simply banged on pots and pans as they waved to neighbors in other buildings. In Milan, people waved Italian flags and tended to play the national anthem, “L’Inno Mameli” (“The Mameli Hymn”). local time on Friday, citizens grabbed their computers or whatever instruments they could find, even pots and pans, and made music. With Italy’s 60 million citizens obliged to stay home until April 3, and possibly beyond, people fought back against restrictions on public gatherings by standing on their balconies and leaning out the windows of their apartments.Īt 6 p.m. Unlike typical flash mobs, like those in Times Square, this was a flash mob at a distance. MILAN - Thousands of Italians on Friday (March 13) decided to break the monotony and loneliness of the country’s strict anti-coronavirus lockdown by joining in a nationwide “Sound Flash Mob.”
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