Gospel Atmospheres Music Festival between Pozzuoli and Gaeta

Atmosfere Gospel music festival between Pozzuoli and Gaeta, July 8th and 9th.

Gospel Atmospheres is the Gospel review curated by CFA Accademia Musicale dei Campi Flegrei which takes place on Friday 8 July at the Macellum Tempio di Serapide in Pozzuoli (via Serapide, 13) at 19.30 pm and on Saturday 9 July at the church of Santa Maria di Porto Salvo (Salita degli Scalzi, 17) in Gaeta at 19.30 pm.

Forty choristers from Eyael, a choir born from the merger of the Città di Pozzuoli choir and the Città di Gaeta choir, will give life to a concert in which the explosive energy of gospel will be the protagonist. The songs scheduled in the lineup are: Amen, My lord kumbaja, How Lord Excellent, I won't go back by William McDowell, Thank you Jesus, Ride on King Jesus, The Battle of Jericho, Adiemus.

“I am very happy – declares Enrica Di Martino, artistic director of the festival and president of the CFA – of this review because the protagonists are two choirs that will perform together for the first time. The strength of Gospel lies precisely in its ability to unite people; the songs we propose underline the sense of brotherhood, of sharing typical of this music. As if by magic, as always happens in Gospel, the many components merge into a single voice. Already in the experience of the International Gospel Days, where national and international choirs performed, I noticed how the peculiarities of the individuals merge with those of the other participants, giving life to a true artistic intertwining that is particularly appreciated by the public. Thanks to Ati Macellum, which manages the Macellum of Pozzuoli, we return to this fantastic place that provides a unique setting. In Gaeta, the church of Santa Maria di Portosalvo, a suggestive location, will host us and give us the energy to make our music known”.

Notes on Gospel:
When Blacks from the African continent, in the 17th and 18th centuries, were brought as slaves to work on the cotton plantations of the Southern United States, their music accompanied them and to alleviate the toil of that life, the plantation songs were born from which the work songs and the calls were derived, songs that described their daily life in the fields and to communicate with each other.

Baptist and Methodist preachers who came from Europe and converted them to Christianity found fertile ground in the strong spirituality of blacks and in their music. Thus were born the Spirituals, a Christian reworking of African ritual music. With the end of slavery, 1865, there was a constant attempt to modernize spirituals and thus promote their diffusion and commercialization, and a new musical genre was born whose rise was unstoppable, and soon, thanks also to the advent and diffusion of radio, record players and tours, it crossed the American borders.

Gospel music is typically choral music. Since about 1960, successfully combining religious lyrics with contemporary rock rhythms and accompanied by bass and drums, Gospel choirs have emerged from churches, meeting with the success that is still deservedly recognized today.

The concert program is designed to enhance the sense of gospel, which is a music that tells the pain, difficulties and frustrations of everyday life, but also faith and hope for liberation and redemption. The two sides, pain and hope, always walk, just like it happens today for us. From the pandemic, immense and excruciating pain, we try to get out, we hope for a better world.

The concert on July 8th will be preceded by the presentation of the book Il viaggio di Apione by architect Maria Caputi.

From the sands of the Fayyum oasis a team of archaeologists finds a box with two papyrus, two letters sent home by a young sailor. From here begins the journey of the young Apion, who moves from the coasts of Egypt to enlist in the Classis Praetoria Misenensis, the Roman imperial fleet stationed in Miseno, without imagining that, in addition to discovering a new land, new friends and perhaps even a great love, he will even be called to defend the life of the Emperor. Talk to the author

The event of July 8th is organized in collaboration with Ati Macellum.

Entrance to the Macellum €10,00

Admission to the July 9th concert is free.

For info: CFA Accademia Musicale dei Campi Flegrei 3389412982 | Macellum 08119851716 – 3429505775 or by email info@macellumpozzuoli.it

THE PROTAGONISTS:     

MAESTRA ENRICA DI MARTINO: Graduated in singing at the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella in Naples, graduated in choral direction and composition at the Domenico Cimarosa Conservatory in Avellino, she boasts experience in the national and European field; in fact, she has received several awards such as second place in the GB Pergolesi Competition, first place in the "AMA Campi Flegrei Competition", Silvia Geszty Scholarship in Neustad in Germany, third place in the "Caruso De Lucia International Competition". She has the CFP qualification and EVT method for teaching modern singing and vocal setting for actors. Many theatrical collaborations in Italy and Europe. As a trainer and singing teacher, she has worked in schools and theaters in Campania for over twenty years.

CFA Accademia Musicale dei Campi Flegrei directed by Maestro Enrica Di Martino was founded in 1998 and has participated in important events throughout Italy. The purpose of CFA is to spread music and enhance musical talent through innovative training and teaching techniques that the school's teachers experiment with, after having trained internationally. Since its foundation, the Academy has received critical and public acclaim for the attention dedicated to performances curated in every detail and, above all, for exchanges with European and international musical realities.

CHORUS EYAEL:
CORO CITTA' DI POZZUOLI founded in 2014 and composed of fifty elements the choir city of Pozzuoli was born almost from a bet of the teacher Di Martino; in the path of spreading gospel in schools, which is always the result of interactions between teachers, students and parents, the enthusiasm of the teachers was always enormous. From this impetus was born the choir that boasts within it several professionals in different disciplines who interact with mastery enriching with their life experience the history of the choir. Among the objectives of the choir is to publish a book "singing is a right" where it is highlighted that choral singing is an activity that should not be reserved exclusively for the elect therefore for those who have musical potential but is for everyone and that the important thing is to identify one's own position to draw one's own benefits.

CORO CITTA' DI GAETA was born in 2021 to bring the experience of the Coro città di Pozzuoli to another city. The enthusiasm immediately encountered in the Lazio city was such that it also overcame the problems related to the pandemic. After a few meetings, the choir members managed to interpret gospel songs that were certainly not easy. Music, once again, overcomes all difficulties and unites with its power of aggregation.

ATI MACELLUM: La Terra dei Miti is the leader of the Temporary Association of Companies “Macellum” with Amartea APS, Aporema ONLUS and Graficamente Srl. The ATI has been awarded the first Special Public-Private Partnership in Italy for the management of the so-called Temple of Serapis, the ancient food market of Pozzuoli, promoted by the Archaeological Park of the Phlegraean Fields. The project involves the return to the community of one of the most important Roman monuments in Italy for its enormous archaeological, historical, scientific and iconographic value. The objective of the Partnership is to increase knowledge of the site and raise awareness of the cultural heritage of the Phlegraean territory, also through improving the ways in which its archaeological sites are enjoyed.

In addition to guided tours, ATI Macellum organizes educational workshops, events, exhibitions, literary readings and dramatized visits inside the archaeological site.