Dorianna
A Melody of Love
Jan 1, 2011
Lines that etch your gentle face
the comfort of your warm embrace
the outpour of your total devotion
uninhibited honest emotion.
These cherished things
inspire my heart to sing
a melody of love.
The strength of character you display
providing protection every way.
Giving support in all I achieve
approval glances on a quiet eve.
These cherished things
inspire my heart to sing
a melody of love.
The twinkle in your smiling eyes
a whisper of awakening sighs
sensual stirring the morning after
teasing kisses and hearty laughter.
These cherished things
inspire my heart to sing
a melody of love.
Outpour of comfort when things are amiss
a heart overflowing with romantic bliss.
Your quiet resolve when we disagree
to end the argument peacefully.
These cherished things
inspire my heart to sing
a melody of love.
In a twinkling life for me had changed
all the colors rearranged
loves profusion, passions heat
Im overflowing, at last complete.
These cherished things
inspire my heart to sing
a melody of love.
With implicit trust I give my all
no doubt or fear, there are no walls.
Each day my love grows deep and strong
love that endures a lifetime long
These cherished things
inspire my heart to sing
a melody of love.
Dorianna Roggio Ric 2008
This sonnet is now a musical composition as a result of a collaboration between myself, the creative and talented musician to see more poetry by Doran Roggio
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'Vic Serenading' and the Roggio Family Music
Feb 27, 2008
Had you known the Roggio family you would have been warmed by their enthusiasm for life. On holidays this large Italian family would gather at Vic Roggio's beautiful estate in Pennsylvania.
Picture the wedding scene at the opening of the Godfather movie and you get a glimpse into typical family gathering of the Roggio's, excluding the Don Corleone and his associates.
At each family event the men would entertain the guests with guitars, mandolins, violin and piano.
Each Roggio musician mastered at least one instrument. Salvatore, father of the eight brothers, played the mandolin, the "family instrument" in Sicily, and the clarinet. Salvatore instilled his love and knowledge of music in his sons.
Armando, the youngest son, was a gifted guitarist playing entirely by ear. He would hear a song and proceed to play the entire melody. In the early 50's he was part of a quartet. The 'Four Chimes' had a pop recording that was played on Philadelphia's own bandstand radio in early 50s.
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Vic Roggio, left us a legacy of that beloved Sicilian music that is so much a part of the Roggio family heritage in his recording of 'Vic Serenading'.
Vic never abandoned his music. He studied harmony and arranging at the Philadelphia Musical Academy. In 1956 he cut his first record with a well-known combo. He played concerts for the Munier Mandolin and Guitar Society.
The audience was limited for mandolin music. Rock and Roll had become the craze. Vic decided to make his own album. Called 'Vic Serenading', the album contains 13 numbers, 12 of them the kind of music an ardent young man might play to serenade his Sicilian sweetheart; the other is a concert piece, Sovenir de Cantane, selected because it was one of Vic's favorites when playing with the Munier Orchestra.
The Recording of 'Vic Serenading'
Vic acted as his own recording engineer, and had to get each part's sound track to synchronize perfectly with the others. 'Vic Serenading' is an awesome album. Listening to the music of Victor Roggio is like spending an evening in Italy. Vic plays all the instruments himself-two mandolins, two guitars, mandolo, mandocello and mandobass. This is the sound of seven instruments as if played by seventy talented fingers. 'Vic Serenading' is a collector's piece of rare artistic achievement, amazing because one man has played every note.
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