Occasionally we watch the RAI Italia channel on pay TV. We signed up for pay TV convincing ourselves that we would watch Italian television all the time in order to keep up our Italian language skills and watch some of our favourite programs. Unfortunately we were to discover that the Aussie Italian channel only showed the absolute worst shows on Italian telly with almost nothing worth watching...except one program, Ti lascio una canzone.
Ti Lascio Una Canzone is basically a children's singing competition, not dissimilar to X Factor but with the kids ranging in age from about 8 to 13. Most of them seem absolutely teeny weeny and it is amazing to see them up on stage, fully confident, strutting their stuff and belting out classic Italian ballads with almost perfect intonation.
Their pitch was so good and seemed so natural that it began to make Jamie and I wonder if singing in tune is something that actually gets harder as we get older. Anyone who watches our Australian version of X Factor or Idol will be well aware that a lot of the singers struggle to stay consistently in tune. Yet, these kiddie winks on the Italian program sang really well in tune for their entire performance, were at ease with themselves on stage performing honestly and spontaneously.
Perhaps we just get more self conscious as we get older which prevents us from being truly in the moment. Maybe the sound engineer was really good on this program!
So...it made us wonder. Does good pitch and singing get harder as we get older?
Take a look!
Madalina Lefter
Damiano Mazzone
continued next week!
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