WEBVTT

00:00.166 --> 00:01.134 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
>> Sreenivasan: IT'S SAID THAT

00:01.134 --> 00:02.535 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
"OLD SOLDIERS NEVER DIE, THEY

00:02.535 --> 00:03.670 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
JUST FADE AWAY."

00:03.670 --> 00:04.838 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
BUT WHAT ABOUT OLD MUSICIANS?

00:04.838 --> 00:06.373 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
IF THEY'RE LUCKY, THEY JUST KEEP

00:06.373 --> 00:07.440 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
ON PLAYING.

00:07.440 --> 00:08.742 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
THAT'S IN FACT WHAT'S HAPPENING

00:08.742 --> 00:10.677 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
IN MILAN, ITALY, AT A RETIREMENT

00:10.677 --> 00:12.112 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
HOME BUILT ESPECIALLY FOR

00:12.112 --> 00:12.812 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
MUSICIANS.

00:12.812 --> 00:14.047 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
NEWSHOUR WEEKEND SPECIAL

00:14.047 --> 00:15.448 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
CORRESPONDENT CHRIS LIVESAY HAS

00:15.448 --> 00:17.617 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
OUR STORY FROM A PLACE WHERE THE

00:16.549 --> 00:21.388 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
MUSIC NEVER STOPS.

00:19.419 --> 00:24.758 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
(<i>MUSIC</i>)

00:24.758 --> 00:25.558 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
>> Reporter: MEET RAIMONDO

00:25.558 --> 00:27.427 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
CAMPISI, A RENOWNED PIANIST

00:27.427 --> 00:28.828 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
WHO'S SPENT HIS LIFE PERFORMING

00:28.828 --> 00:30.263 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
AROUND THE GLOBE.

00:30.263 --> 00:31.731 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
AT 70 YEARS OLD, HE'S NOT

00:31.731 --> 00:32.866 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
PLAYING INSIDE A TRADITIONAL

00:32.866 --> 00:33.800 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
CONCERT HALL.

00:33.800 --> 00:36.169 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
(<i>MUSIC ENDS, APPLAUSE</i>)

00:36.169 --> 00:38.438 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
THIS IS CASA VERDI, A RETIREMENT

00:38.438 --> 00:40.440 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
HOME FOR MUSICIANS IN MILAN,

00:40.440 --> 00:41.408 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
ITALY.

00:41.408 --> 00:47.447 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
(<i>OPERA SINGING, PIANO</i>)

00:47.447 --> 00:48.815 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
ITS FOUNDER WAS NONE OTHER THAN

00:48.815 --> 00:50.283 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
THE 19th-CENTURY ITALIAN

00:50.283 --> 00:52.485 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
COMPOSER, GIUSEPPE VERDI.

00:52.485 --> 00:53.820 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
BLOCKBUSTER COMPOSITIONS SUCH AS

00:53.820 --> 00:56.156 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
<i>LA TRAVIATA, RIGOLETTO</i>AND

00:56.156 --> 00:57.891 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
<i>OTELLO</i>HELPED HIM AMASS A

00:57.891 --> 00:59.292 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
FORTUNE HE WOULD USE TO BUILD

00:59.292 --> 01:00.760 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
THE NEO-GOTHIC MANSION FROM THE

01:00.760 --> 01:02.629 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
GROUND UP JUST BEFORE HE DIED IN

01:02.629 --> 01:03.797 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
1901.

01:03.797 --> 01:04.764 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
HIS ROYALTIES WOULD KEEP THE

01:04.764 --> 01:06.499 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
LIGHTS ON FOR DECADES MORE,

01:06.499 --> 01:08.401 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
PROVIDING FOOD, LODGING AND

01:08.401 --> 01:09.869 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR MUSICIANS

01:09.869 --> 01:11.805 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
WHO, AS VERDI PUT IT, WERE "NOT

01:11.805 --> 01:13.840 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
FAVORED BY FORTUNE OR WHO, WHEN

01:13.840 --> 01:15.375 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
THEY WERE YOUNG, DID NOT POSSESS

01:15.375 --> 01:19.245 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
THE VIRTUE OF SAVING."

01:19.245 --> 01:20.213 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
>> (<i>translated</i>): ALL I DO IS

01:20.213 --> 01:22.816 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
PLAY PIANO AND SPEND MONEY.

01:22.816 --> 01:23.817 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
THIEVES DON'T WASTE THEIR TIME

01:23.817 --> 01:25.318 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
WITH ME BECAUSE THEY WON'T FIND

01:25.318 --> 01:26.786 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
ANY MONEY.

01:26.786 --> 01:28.221 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
VERDI HAD PEOPLE LIKE ME IN MIND

01:28.221 --> 01:30.824 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
WHEN HE FOUNDED CASA VERDI.

01:30.824 --> 01:31.724 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
>> Reporter: A PIANIST LIKE HER

01:31.724 --> 01:33.893 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
SON, CAMPISI'S MOTHER WAS ALSO A

01:33.893 --> 01:36.930 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
RESIDENT.

01:36.930 --> 01:37.897 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
>> (<i>translated</i>): SHE PASSED

01:37.897 --> 01:40.567 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
AWAY THREE YEARS AGO.

01:40.567 --> 01:41.534 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
WHEN MY MOTHER LIVED HERE, I

01:41.534 --> 01:42.869 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
DIDN'T KNOW THE PLACE VERY WELL

01:42.869 --> 01:44.204 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
BECAUSE I WAS ALWAYS PASSING

01:44.204 --> 01:45.371 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
THROUGH.

01:45.371 --> 01:46.372 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
AND I DIDN'T KNOW HOW GREAT IT

01:46.372 --> 01:48.441 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
WAS, WITH ALL THESE CONCERTS AND

01:48.441 --> 01:51.478 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
MUSICIANS.

01:51.478 --> 01:52.345 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
>> Reporter: VERDI CALLED THIS

01:52.345 --> 01:53.847 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
RETIREMENT HOME THE FINEST OF

01:53.847 --> 01:55.482 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
HIS LIFE'S WORK, AND, WALKING

01:55.482 --> 01:56.549 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
THROUGH THESE HALLS, YOU START

01:56.549 --> 01:57.817 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
TO UNDERSTAND WHY.

01:57.817 --> 01:59.319 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO GO ANYWHERE

01:59.319 --> 02:00.487 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
WITHOUT HEARING THE SOUND OF

02:00.487 --> 02:03.556 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
MUSIC.

02:03.556 --> 02:10.363 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
(<i>OPERA SINGING</i>)

02:10.363 --> 02:12.165 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
YOU ALSO SEE MUSICAL REFERENCES

02:12.165 --> 02:13.800 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
IN EVERY CORNER.

02:13.800 --> 02:15.902 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
IN ONE ROOM, VERDI'’’S OWN PIANO.

02:15.902 --> 02:17.504 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
DOOR HANDLES ARE MODELED AFTER

02:17.504 --> 02:19.239 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
LYRES, AND KEYBOARD-INSPIRED

02:19.239 --> 02:20.907 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
ARCHES LOOK LIKE THEY COULD PLAY

02:20.907 --> 02:21.774 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
A SONG.

02:21.774 --> 02:22.876 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
EVERY AESTHETIC DETAIL

02:22.876 --> 02:24.644 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
TAILOR-MADE FOR A HOUSE FULL OF

02:24.644 --> 02:26.679 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
MUSICIANS AND PAINSTAKINGLY

02:26.679 --> 02:28.348 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
DESIGNED BY VERDI.

02:28.348 --> 02:29.582 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
THE MAESTRO HIMSELF IS HERE,

02:29.582 --> 02:30.984 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
TOO; HE'S ENTOMBED IN THE

02:30.984 --> 02:34.320 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
COURTYARD.

02:34.320 --> 02:35.722 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
TODAY, THERE ARE ROUGHLY 60

02:35.722 --> 02:37.223 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
RESIDENTS.

02:37.223 --> 02:38.625 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
UNLIKE IN VERDI'S DAY, THEY

02:38.625 --> 02:39.893 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
RECEIVE STATE PENSIONS AND PAY

02:39.893 --> 02:41.528 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
RENT ON A SLIDING SCALE,

02:41.528 --> 02:42.996 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
ACCORDING TO THEIR MEANS.

02:42.996 --> 02:44.197 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
THE RETIREMENT HOME WELCOMES

02:44.197 --> 02:45.632 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
PEOPLE OF ALL NATIONALITIES AND

02:45.632 --> 02:46.633 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
BACKGROUNDS.

02:46.633 --> 02:48.268 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
THERE'S ONLY ONE REQUIREMENT:

02:48.268 --> 02:49.903 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
THEY MUST HAVE BEEN PROFESSIONAL

02:49.903 --> 02:51.404 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
MUSICIANS.

02:51.404 --> 02:52.372 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS HAVE

02:52.372 --> 02:54.240 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
ACCESS TO ONGOING CONCERTS,

02:54.240 --> 02:57.210 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
MUSIC ROOMS, 15 PIANOS, HARPS,

02:57.210 --> 02:58.912 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
GRAMOPHONES AND, PERHAPS MOST

02:58.912 --> 03:01.014 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
IMPORTANT, THE COMPANY OF THEIR

03:01.014 --> 03:04.250 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
PEERS.

03:01.814 --> 03:14.427 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
(<i>APPLAUSE</i>)

03:14.427 --> 03:15.495 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
>> Reporter: BISSY ROMAN, NOW

03:15.495 --> 03:17.764 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
93, SAYS MUSIC LITERALLY KEPT

03:17.764 --> 03:19.465 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
HER ALIVE IN ROMANIA DURING

03:19.465 --> 03:21.367 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
WORLD WAR II.

03:21.367 --> 03:24.037 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
YOUR TOWN WAS OCCUPIED BY THE

03:24.037 --> 03:24.504 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
NAZIS.

03:24.504 --> 03:25.572 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
>> BY THE NAZIS.

03:25.572 --> 03:26.906 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
>> Reporter: AND NEVERTHELESS,

03:26.906 --> 03:30.009 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
YOU WERE STILL ABLE TO PLAY

03:28.408 --> 03:49.529 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
PIANO?

03:49.529 --> 03:50.630 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
>> Reporter: AFTER THE WAR,

03:50.630 --> 03:52.065 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
ROMAN WENT ON TO TEACH PIANO AND

03:52.065 --> 03:53.066 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
VOCAL PERFORMANCE AROUND THE

03:53.066 --> 03:54.934 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
WORLD, INCLUDING FOR 12 YEARS AT

03:54.934 --> 03:56.869 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY.

03:56.869 --> 04:01.507 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
(<i>SINGING</i>)

04:01.507 --> 04:02.875 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
AND SHE'S STILL SURROUNDED BY

04:02.875 --> 04:04.277 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
YOUNG MUSICIANS.

04:04.277 --> 04:06.379 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
SINCE 1993, THE RETIREMENT HOME

04:06.379 --> 04:08.014 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
HAS ALSO RENTED ROOMS TO MUSIC

04:08.014 --> 04:09.015 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
STUDENTS.

04:09.015 --> 04:10.817 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
THE ELDERLY GET COMPANIONSHIP,

04:10.817 --> 04:12.051 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
AND THE STUDENTS SAY THEY GET

04:12.051 --> 04:14.821 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
FREE LESSONS ON MUSIC AND LIFE.

04:14.821 --> 04:17.090 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
>> IT'S AMAZING THAT WE CAN DO

04:17.090 --> 04:18.758 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
MUSIC WITH THEM.

04:18.758 --> 04:20.860 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
WE CAN SING WITH THE OLD PEOPLE.

04:20.860 --> 04:23.796 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
YOU ARE WALKING, AND, "OH,

04:23.796 --> 04:25.064 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
YOU WANT TO SING TOGETHER."

04:25.064 --> 04:27.000 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
AND, "YES, LET'S SING TOGETHER!"

04:27.000 --> 04:27.900 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
>> "BUT DO YOU KNOW THAT SONG?"

04:27.900 --> 04:28.501 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
"YEAH!"

04:28.501 --> 04:38.111 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
(<i>LAUGHTER</i>)

04:29.602 --> 04:47.387 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
(<i>MUSIC, SINGNING CONTINUE</i>)

04:47.387 --> 04:48.087 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
>> Reporter: CASA VERDI'S

04:48.087 --> 04:49.355 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
EXISTENCE HASN'T ALWAYS BEEN

04:49.355 --> 04:50.523 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
GUARANTEED.

04:50.523 --> 04:52.525 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
ROYALTIES FROM VERDI'S 27 OPERAS

04:52.525 --> 04:53.893 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
KEPT THE HOME AFLOAT UNTIL THE

04:53.893 --> 04:55.128 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
1950s.

04:55.128 --> 04:56.029 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
THEN, HIS MUSIC ENTERED THE

04:56.029 --> 04:58.031 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
PUBLIC DOMAIN, BECOMING FREE TO

04:58.031 --> 04:59.032 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
EVERYONE.

04:59.032 --> 05:00.466 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
THAT LEFT CASA VERDI WITHOUT

05:00.466 --> 05:02.068 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
VITAL FUNDING, SAYS ROBERTO

05:02.068 --> 05:03.703 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
RUOZI, THE PRESIDENT OF THE

05:03.703 --> 05:05.104 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
VERDI FOUNDATION.

05:05.104 --> 05:07.140 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
>> FORTUNATELY, THE

05:07.140 --> 05:09.742 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE HOUSE

05:09.742 --> 05:12.645 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
INVESTED THIS MONEY IN...

05:12.645 --> 05:13.813 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
ESPECIALLY IN APARTMENTS,

05:13.813 --> 05:14.914 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
BUILDINGS.

05:14.914 --> 05:16.849 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
SO, NOW, WE HAVE MORE THAN 100

05:16.849 --> 05:20.153 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
APARTMENTS THAT WE RENT TO

05:20.153 --> 05:20.887 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
PEOPLE.

05:20.887 --> 05:23.122 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
AND WITH THE RENTALS, WE FINANCE

05:23.122 --> 05:24.090 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
THE HOUSE.

05:24.090 --> 05:25.058 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
>> Reporter: RUOZI ALSO CREDITS

05:25.058 --> 05:26.726 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
MAJOR FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS

05:26.726 --> 05:28.561 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
OVER THE DECADES FROM TITANS OF

05:28.561 --> 05:30.563 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
CLASSICAL MUSIC, SUCH AS LUCIANO

05:30.563 --> 05:32.131 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
PAVAROTTI AND THE HEIRS OF

05:32.131 --> 05:33.900 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
ARTURO TOSCANINI.

05:33.900 --> 05:36.502 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
>> IT IS REALLY A MIRACLE THAT

05:36.502 --> 05:38.037 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
CASA VERDI IS STILL OPEN AND

05:38.037 --> 05:42.141 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
WORKS VERY WELL, WITHOUT ANY BIG

05:42.141 --> 05:44.177 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
PROBLEMS, ESPECIALLY FROM THE

05:44.177 --> 05:45.778 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
FINANCIAL POINT OF VIEW.

05:45.778 --> 05:46.713 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
>> Reporter: TO DATE, CASA VERDI

05:46.713 --> 05:49.015 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
HAS HOSTED MORE THAN 1,500

05:49.015 --> 05:50.850 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
RESIDENTS AND ALWAYS HAS A

05:50.850 --> 05:51.818 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
WAITING LIST.

05:51.818 --> 05:54.520 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE THING ABOUT

05:54.520 --> 05:57.156 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
LIVING HERE?

05:57.156 --> 05:59.192 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
>> I FEEL PROTECTED.

05:59.192 --> 06:01.994 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
I FEEL THAT I AM HOME WITH

06:01.994 --> 06:04.697 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO GAVE THEIR

06:04.697 --> 06:11.437 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
LIFE TO THE MUSIC.

06:06.733 --> 06:11.471 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80%
(<i>MUSIC CONCLUDES, APPLAUSE</i>)