Sixty-six years old, he was also part of the bands of Ivrea, S. Giorgio and S. Giusto. Known throughout the Canavese area, he was a person of extraordinary humanity and goodness
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«Renato flew to heaven and now he plays with the angels».
This cursed time of pandemic has also taken away one of the best known and most appreciated musicians of the whole Canavese: Renato Sartore, 66 years old. A teacher and musician from Rivarolo, he died on Tuesday evening due to complications from Covid from which he had been negativized.
After graduating from Itis Lagrange “in Rivarolo, he was a mechanical drawing teacher from the seventies until 2016. His talent and his passion for music, which he loved viscerally in all its forms, led him playing in Rivarolo, Bosconero, Ivrea, more recently in San Giorgio and San Giusto. His clarinet style is unmistakable, for timbre and creativity both in the jazz repertoire and in the pages of popular tradition. «He loved to bring music to the street – say his friends – as an opportunity for meeting and sharing. In this spirit, from the 2020 lockdown he had started to publish some recordings on Facebook: Amapola, in homage to Ennio Morricone, Renzo Arbore’s Clarinet and an attempt, with the usual irony, of Mad – Music at a distance with the musician Cesare Mecca performing together Si tu vois ma mère by Sidney Bechet.
«Renato was special for me – says Mecca -. I remember that when I was a ten-year-old boy, intrigued by the sound of the music band rehearsals, I would look out over the music school courtyard from the gate bars, but didn’t dare enter. After a few evenings it was Renato who came to pick me up and made me sit near his chair, next to the row of the first clarinets Renato, with his keen spirit of observation and his innate sensitivity, had managed to capture my love for music . So we began to meet before rehearsals in the kitchen of the music school, a place of union and social gathering of the Bosconerese Philharmonic, to play together: he taught me to read music by interpreting it properly and to find my own personal sound. I still keep today, 15 years after our first meeting, a score that he transcribed especially for me to teach me Ravel’s Bolero. Thus I began to frequent the environment of the philharmonic and quickly became an effective member. Thanks to Renato, Gianni Forestan (whom I remember with joy), Luigi Torasso, the “sunadur” brothers and other musicians among the veterans of the band, I had the opportunity to learn a vast repertoire of traditional music by ear; but the most important thing was that they taught me to play with the others ». –