While in uniform, Coles continued to compose, though, owing to the extenuating circumstances that prevailed, he did not aspire to the same ambitious scale of his pre-war orchestral works. A movement, ‘Triste et gai’, from his Fünf Skizzen for piano was orchestrated, and The Sorrowful Dance for piano was composed and sketched for orchestra in short score. Behind the lines, a four-movement suite for small orchestra, appears to have been begun in November 1917. The autograph manuscript of the first movement, ‘Estaminet de Carrefour’, in pencil is dated 3 November 1917 and was sent to Holst for perusal at or around Christmas of that year. Holst conjectured that ‘the other movements were destroyed by a shell during the retreat in March 1918’; he was partially correct. Two of the movements—‘The Wayside Shrine’ and ‘Rumours’—were never found, but a short score of the third movement, ‘Cortège’, survived... (continua)

George Butterworth, who composed the music to A E Housman's poem, was killed in action at the age of 29, on August 5, 1916.

2016
Così sia

(testo di Cattini C./Vecchi M./Carletti G.- musica di Carletti G./Vecchi M./Cattini C.)

Il testo di "Così sia" lancia un messaggio di speranza e fiducia in un futuro migliore per il mondo in cui viviamo, possibile se uomini e donne saranno capaci di aprire i propri cuori e vincere il meccanismo del dio denaro, dell'economia che detta legge e delle prevaricazioni.

(2011)
Album: PL3DGE

Campionamento dei Funkadelics (You and Your Folks, Me and my Folks)

Con Obama e tutta la retorica del presidente nero non è cambiato niente. I poliziotti sparano ancora nei ghetti, le prigioni sono sovraffollate e anche le scuole. I negri vanno in galera, la nuova schiavitu. Killer Mike ha ben presente cos'andrebbe bruciato.