Abruzzo remembers Vessicchio, 'there are no heirs'

"They're already asking me of the inheritance. This word does not belong to me. They do not exist. heirs. And above all, it's service. Service to music." Enrico Melozzi, the Teramo orchestra conductor, greeted Beppe like this Vessicchio, who passed away today at the age of 69. In his message entrusted to him on social media there is also the memory of the Sanremo evening that brought them united in the same direction: "We hugged each other, we thanked each other each other, and we entered into music," he writes. The image of the two of them together remained in the frames of the Festival: 2023 edition, standing ovation from the Ariston. Vessicchio, no expected in the lineup, surprisingly materializes on the podium and has directed Destination Paradise "four-handed" with Melozzi. On Gianluca Grignani and Arisa take the stage. The audience stands. the orchestra starts playing again. The following year, Vessicchio returned to the Ariston again as a guest, directing Jalisse on the Cover night, greeted by another ovation. At his side, this time, the Maestro Leonardo De Amicis, also from Abruzzo. "Hi Peppe, the your music and your kindness will last forever," he writes the latter on social media. Vessicchio has also chosen Abruzzo for a project that tells its most generous side: in Torano Nuovo (Teramo) he has founded Musikè Vini together with the entrepreneur Riccardo Iacobone. Scholarships for young people started from that cellar musicians. "Inside a glass there is harmony. The same one I look for in music,” he said on several occasions.