September at the Borgo, the program for Saturday 3 September.
“Settembre al Borgo” – the longest-running event in the province of Caserta – blows out fifty candles and does so by “embracing” instruments, sounds and cultures from all over the world. The kermesse, a cult for entire generations, is also directed this year by maestro Enzo Avitabile who has developed a unique and innovative program. A real “bet” on a high profile of music to promote that cultural process that our time needs. The program for the third evening (Saturday, September 3) is a clear testimony to all this.
DORANTES in Concert
It starts at 22 pm in Piazza Vescovado in Casertavecchia with “Dorantes in Concert”. The Spanish pianist and composer David Peña “Dorantes” is the biggest flamenco star of 2015 considered the patriarch of modern flamenco piano. His creative force has unleashed a true revolution in flamenco music. Dorantes opens new and coherent paths to this legacy and, in his unstoppable advance, brings it closer to the status of “classical or cultured music”. All this while remaining firmly consistent with his roots. Dorantes fuses his musical roots in flamenco with a superfine execution ability with an avant-garde approach to create his pioneering music. A multiple award-winning artist and 2009 National Award “Young Creator” from the Ministry of Culture, Dorantes is acclaimed worldwide as one of the most exciting and compelling flamenco pianists and composers around. His musical performances create sounds that take you on a journey to the Mediterranean, without musical or social walls or borders, Dorantes, combines and fuses, sympathetically and intelligently, more than three different genres: classical music, flamenco, jazz and others, making his music emerge from a creative freedom as bold as it is seductive. “Dorantes in concert” shows the viewer the formula that allows a composer to express his unlimited and surprisingly surprising creativity. The creation is a conjunction of impossible plots that build an exoticism that has everything and attracts everything. It goes back and forth and never returns to the same state. The artist has gathered around him a large cast of artists: such as the dancer Leonor Leal and the promising singer Antonio Mena. This magical combination offers an extraordinary show in which the music of his piano merges with the intangible and the deepest feelings.
LUIGI LAI – Launeddas solo
At 23:30 pm, in the Cathedral of the medieval village of Caserta, maestro Luigi Lai will perform with “Launeddas solo”. Luigi Lai became passionate about Launeddas at the age of 8 after hearing a shepherd playing the “sonus de canna” in the countryside of Minderrì in San Vito. That moment was dazzling and the beginning of his long career. He constantly dedicates himself to the care of Launeddas: to build them and play them. His desire to learn and improve leads him to take lessons from the great masters of Launeddas del Sarrabus, mainly Antonio Lara and then also Efisio Melis. Not only Launeddas in his career, but also Accordion and Sax, the latter instrument studied at the Zurich Academy for four years, during the period of stay in Switzerland, from the age of 26 to the age of 41. The return to Sardinia in 1971 with the first presence as a player at the parade of Sant'Efisio on May 70st, which he has always attended since then. He is the first to have created a school of Launeddas in the XNUMXs, then there were important collaborations such as the musical one with Angelo Branduardi and the cinematographic one with the director Gianfranco Cabiddu. He has toured the world with his Launeddas and continues to spread them in his concerts and cultural events.
A Hamlet of Books
“September at the Borgo”, however, is also “A Borgo di Libri”, the review conceived by Luigi Ferraiuolo. The first of two events scheduled for the evening of Saturday, September 19 will be at 3:20 pm in Piazza Duomo in Casertavecchia. “Not only for love” is not only the title of a book, but a true hymn to the life of Francesca Morvillo, Giovanni Falcone’s wife. A story written by many voices that reconstructs the history of one of the first female Sicilian magistrates, from her school years to her role as a juvenile magistrate and then as a judge. Doing so for Un Borgo di Libri, together with Luigi Ferraiuolo, will be exceptional witnesses: Alfredo Morvillo, Francesca’s brother, and Massimo Bray, former Minister for Cultural Heritage, Activities and Tourism in the Letta government and now general director of the Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia. With them will be Cetta Brancato, co-editor of the volume “Non solo per amore” published by Treccani, and Nadia Verdile, journalist of Il Mattino and moderator of the meeting for the occasion. Immediately afterwards, at XNUMX pm, again in Piazza Duomo in Casertavecchia, there will be the event “Nord chiama Sud”, Il Mattino meets Corriere della Sera. The meeting will feature the director of Il Mattino, Francesco De Core, and the deputy director of Corriere della Sera, Venanzio Postiglione. This is the first of a series of annual meetings that will see two great directors discuss the present, starting from memory, to build a shared future. Not only North and South, but also literature and business, future and memory. The debate will be moderated by the writer Andrea Di Consoli. This last meeting will also be the first public appearance in Caserta of the director of Il Mattino, Francesco De Core. He, a Caserta native and recently appointed editor of the main daily newspaper in Southern Italy, will tell the story of the city of Caserta in a broader context, that of Italy.
Article published on 2 September 2022 - 19:00
