We’ll see, we’ll see, we’ll see… if it will change the name of the Club Tenco. the organizers of The most important and prestigious festival della canzone d’autore italiana, held in Sanremo every autumn, they received a letter from the legal representative of the family of Luigi Tenco , that is, the grandchildren of the singer-songwriter Graziella, Patrizia and Giuseppe Tenco, asking for a name change, and indeed for the accuracy of the brand the Club Tenco”. In essence “the” Tenco should not have more to do with Tenco (without the article), for having “taken a different road and away from some of the principles for which it was founded, with a preference for more media results and business, and tend to be regarded more and more as a marginal figure of Luigi Tenco for the existence of the Club Tenco”. A conflict that had lasted for some time: already months ago, when it was made known the cast of the show, which is held in the teatro Ariston, where it then goes into the scene of the festival, the family protested to the presence of the Achille Lauro: “It was held that his premature participation in “Premio Tenco” could represent another attempt unnatural and impermissible approach or courtship of the Tenco Festival, to the detriment of many very singer-songwriters with a long career behind her, and some of which are featured in this edition of the review”. And you have to admit that the trapper Ľ and it was then is not reported for the stunts, with and without costume this summer at the festival, but for their wildly out of tune far, Far away, the song of Tenco, which officially opens the festival, accompanied by Morgan at the piano.
Perhaps this previous family Tenco writes that “as long as the members of the association do not elect a new board that is respectful of the historic values of the Club and of the rights of us heirs Tenco, we will not be able to renew the use of the name the Club Tenco and we believe, despite our, the Club Tenco as an experience closed. Therefore, we invite all the external figures involved, not taking into account the initiatives and requests proposed by this committee in the name of the Club Tenco not authorized and does not enjoy our confidence”. In more “cease and desist from using the mark itself and/or the name of Tenco in any form and at the same time, please do not make use of the name luigi Tenco, in any form of expression, to apply for funding or partnerships to institutions, companies, theatres, or other exercises”. Finally, “we the family of Luigi Tenco, we never had the profits from the Club Tenco and we have never had any interest of any kind if not to allow you to remember the value of human and artistic through a delegation of authority be granted free of charge. On our part we have tried to respect and maintain unaltered over time the feeling of his brother Valentino Tenco when he gave a similar willingness to Amilcare Rambaldi, who, with genteel respect, he had asked to be allowed to use the name Tenco. Hoping for an immediate recovery of the values”. Clarification that wants to remove the doubt that all of this can be a matter of money: it is the artistic direction of luigi Tenco in recent years, which is trying to open up to the contemporary, to rap, to new music, to marketability, to not get stuck in the past only on the classic singer-songwriters, not to please the family.
Evidently the Tenco is not enough that a few days ago, the association has elected as its president (but he calls himself a “legal representative”) the editorial cartoonist for Sergio Staino , huge fan of music copyright and flanker of the Tenco times not suspects, and those in which there was still Rambaldi, the man who, in 1972, to commemorate Luigi Tenco, who died during the Sanremo festival, decided to invent this show that has had moments, glorious, incredible, with guests such as Fabrizio De André, Giorgio Gaber, Paolo Conte, Gino Paoli, Enzo Jannacci, Lucio Dalla, Piero Ciampi, Sergio Endrigo, Roberto Vecchioni, Franco Battiato, Roberto Benigni, Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Patti Smith, and Charles Trenet. And just Staino responds with an open letter in which he says he is “surprised and very disappointed by the content and tone of this missive,” and asks of time, just as the newly-arrived. “I need to understand better the origins of many misunderstandings and inaccuracies. Perhaps a meeting face-to-face can help us to overcome this regrettable situation”. And the committee adds that “it is unthinkable that we can get to similar misunderstandings between people who work all driven only by the love and esteem gained over the years in respect to Luigi Tenco, and of the song of author. And this, taking into account also that none of the involved with every title in this hard and difficult work has ever taken the slightest profit.” The debate is open: how the “brand” Tenco still belongs to the family Tenco, after almost half a century of review during which the music of the singer-songwriter has been abundantly celebrated, remembered, performed, free? And what is the music of author now, place that yet exists? The discussion is open, and it is hoped that you do not need to transport even in a courtroom. And in the case here is ready also another debate: who should call the show, if Tenco was to become a name that is unavailable? Already used Ciampi, De Andrè and Bindi, are in the mind only two names: Sergio Endrigo and Enzo Jannacci.
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