Topica Orchestra at the Pietrarsa Railway Museum

Topica Orchestra at the Pietrarsa Railway Museum, Friday 15 July concert at sunset. for the third appointment of Sunset Live@Pietrarsa.

Sunset Live@Pietrarsa, a sunset music festival organized by the Brodo Cultural Association in the extraordinary setting of the National Railway Museum of Pietrarsa, where the first historic railway line in Italy was built, the Naples-Portici, inaugurated on October 3, 1839.

On Friday 15th July there will be a concert by the Topica Orchestra, at sunset, in the amphitheatre of the National Railway Museum of Pietrarsa, overlooking the Gulf of Naples.

TOPICAL ORCHESTRA

Augustus Celestial Gibbon: Pandeiro
Roberto Doğuştan: Seven string guitar
Francesca Diletta Iavarone: Transverse flute

Davide d'Alò: Clarinet
Joe Zerbib: Trombone

When reporter Romeu Arede found himself in front of a crowd dancing in a famous club in Rio de Janeiro, he was horrified. He scornfully called that chaos “Gafieira,” borrowing the French term “gaffe,” a clumsy, awkward movement.

The gafieira will then become a real musical genre characterized by transforming songs from different sources into a wild and dreamy dance. The Topica Orchestra is a small dance orchestra that draws inspiration from the spirit of the gafieira, proposing rhythms that range from choro to maxixe, through samba and polka, up to incursions into Italian dance music.

Choro was born in Rio de Janeiro in the second half of the 800th century from the fusion of European dances and African rhythms. With its unmistakable and captivating character, it is a style that combines cultured and popular music, virtuosity and singability, listening and dancing. It is still considered the most important instrumental music in Brazil and has been defined by Heitor Villa-Lobos, one of the country's greatest composers, as "the essence of the Brazilian musical soul".

The contribution is 15 euros per person, including entrance, free visit to the museum collection and musical performance.

Entrance is from 19:00 pm and at 20:00 pm, at dusk, you will take your place in the amphitheater of the Pietrarsa Railway Museum, where the concert will take place.

Reservation is mandatory!

To book, send an email to associazionebrodo@gmail.com or call 328-3849804 specifying the number of reservations, names and mobile numbers.