Chocker and Dalla in Tirana
Anna Oxa in her place of origin
In the proposal for December: "my meaning, in Albania"
Criminal police
searches for
music documents
VITOS SAKKAKI
TIRANA - There are no more vacant rooms in any hotel for foreign tourists in the capital. For the first days of September, even the beds in the most luxurious suites are being booked. Tirana is boiling; it has been seized by an unprecedented fever. The day has come for us to have our own international festival as well. The Italian-Albanian association has managed to organize "Mikrofoni i Artë," which is being talked about all over Tirana. It will be held in two weeks, in the square in front of the Pyramid. The first invitation went to Anna Oxa. The Italian singer accepted immediately. It does not matter if, on her birth certificate, her name is written as Zanolli. That is to say, she will not be the only guest. Compliments for the special hospitality have also reached the offices of Italian artistic agencies. A pilgrimage to Tirana has already begun.
TIRANA - Next time, next September, music producers and managers will find the Albanian capital without the huge bustle of construction sites, but with more comfortable hotels, with lights, without water shortages and with better transport. At least that is the promise of the authorities. Right now, everyone is trying to do their part in bringing back a festival and market atmosphere.
ANNA OXA will sing here, in the place where her family was born. Her name immediately draws attention, but the organizers also speak of Claudio Baglioni, Lucio Dalla, Riccardo Cocciante, Toto Cutugno and others [?].
At the entrance to the Pyramid, cables and equipment are being installed. Tirana is preparing for an evening that many call historic. Journalists, photographers and fans move amid the noise of generators. Young people are waiting for news about tickets and the names of the guests.
It is not only music. There is also an effort to give the city a different face, to bring it out of the isolation of long years. That is why the news of the arrival of Italian artists has turned into a public event.
Members of the criminal police are checking documents, permits, equipment lists and the movement of technicians. In some places, music documents [?] are being requested, according to the requirements of organization and security.
For most people, however, only one thing matters: that the stage be set up and that the singers come. TIRANA - with its position between the past and the future - is waiting for the concert as a great test.
Criminal police searches for music documents
Italy faces off. The 92nd football championship begins
Inter, Milan and Juve are favored. Old Saturdays of yesteryear [?]
sport
Italy faces off
The 92nd football championship
begins
Inter, Milan and Juve are favored, while Juventus and the others [?]
PINO MONTANA
The loss of Luka, who has been replaced by Tovajl [?], the arrival of Huller and the strengthening of Milan, including a squad with a great player such as Jean-Pierre Papin as well as the recovery of the injured Baresi, make Capello’s team the favorite together with Bagnoli’s Inter, which has strengthened its attack with Bergkamp and the arrival of Rubens Sosa.
Juventus and Sampdoria are rated lower, while the other teams are expected to fight for survival and for a place in the middle of the table.
The opening-week schedule is full of great anticipation for Italian fans.
Fake cassettes are being sold: producers protest
Fake cassettes are being sold:
producers protest
ANDREA STEFANI
TIRANA - In this market of lawless things in the land of wonders, at least for the first time, a kind of economic protectionism has just appeared. Particularly concerned is Alessandro Vannucci, the owner of the Italian record company "DEA", which is preparing the arrival in Tirana of the first Albanian singers, but which has been harmed by the sale of pirate cassettes.
Alessandro Vannucci explained that unauthorized copies are being sold freely on the market, of poor quality and with no payment for rights. According to him, this harms not only the producers, but also the artists and the public.
TIRANA - They do free trade in whatever they want: trade in video and audio cassettes imported and copied without any criteria is even allowed. But it is not really clear how cassettes of Albanian songs, made specifically for the local public, can also be put into circulation, and yet be pirated from the very beginning.
Vannucci says that the organizers and the authorities have been informed about the case. He is calling for clear rules, control, and respect for copyright. Otherwise, the investments planned for the Albanian market may become more difficult.
In Tirana, where everything still functions through improvisation, the producers’ protest sounds like a warning about what is coming with the opening of the cultural market.
Socialists decide to bring back the leadership [?]
Socialists
decide
bringing back
the leadership [?]
TIRANA - The Socialist group decided to postpone the meeting to an upcoming date, while the discussion on the party’s reorganization and on the main appointments remains open. At the center of attention is the return of several well-known figures and the effort to create a new balance after the latest developments.
MPs and local leaders were seen in the hall. The decisions are expected to affect the party’s internal relations and its positions toward the opposition.
In the country
The childbirth is driving him mad
and miserable
for pay
Oka
without funding risks bankruptcy
Kosovo: a boy of Albanian origin is killed
The Albanian championship has just arrived
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