“The best of youth” of the conservatories on the penultimate weekend before the inauguration of the summer program of the Ravello Festival that will open on Sunday 30 June with the Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo conducted by Juraj ValÄ uha. Three events are scheduled: tomorrow at 19 pm, in the Sala dei Cavalieri of Villa Rufolo, the orchestra of the Martucci Conservatory of Salerno conducted by Massimiliano Carlini with Alessandro Volpe at the piano, will propose one of the key compositions in the history of contemporary music, “Rhapsody in Blue” by George Gershwin, an attempt to create a synthesis between elements of Western classical music and jazz elements, with the ultimate goal of obtaining an authentic and original American musical product, whose cultural starting point, at the time, Gershwin identified precisely in African-American music, in jazz.
Saturday at 19 pm, again in Villa Rufolo, a concert halfway between theater and music with “Platero y Yo” performed by the students of San Pietro a Majella in Naples. A fable by Nobel Prize winner Juan Ramon Jimenez, written for adults to whom it speaks like children who have grown up too quickly, “Platero and I” struck, among others, the composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco who set 28 of its most beautiful and significant chapters to music, creating a work for narrator and guitar, at the same time of extreme complexity and splendid lightness. Sunday at 11.30:XNUMX am the music will arrive in the Giardini del monsignore, the terraces recently restored and brought back to public use, which open behind the Duomo of Ravello and overlook the square. The Neapolis saxophone ensemble of S. Pietro a Majella in Naples will perform with a program that will range from Gershwin to Paquito D'Rivera passing through Monk and John Lennon
Article published on 13 June 2019 - 16:28
