The group’s three-minute performance ends on the song’s chorus, with more than 40 of the choir members’ videos filling the screen. “I’d like for the people who will watch or already have watched the video to know that this difficult and frightening period is not going to last forever, and that we will go back to normal and value even more the things we missed the most during this lockdown," said 18-year-old performer Dinoosh Kokuhennadige. “I started to sweat, and I was walking around talking to Crosby's poster in my bedroom.”įor all the young choir members, the response to their quarantine music is a reminder that the pandemic threatens countries all over the world and that all people must unite in the shared fight to overcome the virus. “I almost fainted,” Arduini said in an email to ABC News. When the news of Crosby’s praise reached Arduini, he said he was overcome with emotion. “I was soooooo happy!” Nicole Arpini, 20, wrote in an email to ABC News. “A member of the choir sent the screenshots taken from Twitter, and we all went crazy.” I like it better than our original,” he added in another Twitter post. “his is now my favorite version of this song ever. “hank you Italia for making my day wonderful by singing that song so well and with such heart,” Crosby wrote on Twitter. The trio was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. It even caught the eyes and ears of David Crosby, one of the original members of Crosby, Stills & Nash, whose recording of “Helplessly Hoping” appeared on the group’s debut album in 1969. Over the past few days, the video has received attention and endorsements from celebs including actress Mia Farrow and musician-actor Stevie Van Zandt.
“But I think that it's beautiful that something that helped unite our choir resonated with so many people.” “I totally did not expect for it to reach this huge popularity,” he said. The worldwide embrace of their performance was a surprise to all the performers, said choir member Andrew Murugan, 20, a student at La Sapienza University in Rome. “We thought our mothers, our aunts and a few friends would see it,” Versino said, stunned at the response. It has since been viewed on the site more than 160,000 times. The finished video, which features more than four dozen singers from the choir, was posted to YouTube last week. So when the idea was presented by the choir to record a song together during the quarantine, he was quick to suggest “Helplessly Hoping.”
But this is a completely surreal situation.”Īrduini grew up listening to Crosby, Stills and Nash and other American folk singers. “I've been working for a few years now, and I was in contact with many difficult illnesses with human suffering and death. “The situation is critical, but we, doctors and caregivers, try to give our best every day for the patients,” Arduini said. Though the northern areas of Italy have suffered by far the worst outbreaks of the disease, the Lazio region around Rome has seen nearly 3,000 cases and 150 deaths through March 30, according to figures released by the Italian government. He spends his working hours as a nurse at San Camillo Hospital, suiting up in personal protective equipment and caring for patients, some showing symptoms of COVID-19. “We knew we were doing something all together, even as we are far from each other.”įor choir member Lorenzo Arduini, his country’s battle against the virus is deeply personal. “I thought that was a beautiful experience to do, even in this terrible period,” Fabbri told ABC News by email. Over the next 10 days, dozens of the choir members studied, practiced and performed their individual parts - on balconies, in bedrooms and kitchens scattered across the city - and sent their videos electronically to Versino, who stitched them all together with the assistance of another choir member. Then it occurred to me to have each person record a video at home, to feel the closeness of our group again, as well as to use some of the time on their hands and distract them from the situation,” Versino added. The restrictions remain in effect and there is no clear forecast as to when they may be lifted.
In an effort to control the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte ordered a nationwide lockdown on March 9, closing schools and businesses and forcing all but the most essential workers to remain in their homes.
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