Orchestras play. The young people of Naples play. They create suites, elaborate personal interpretations, and glittering pages of classical music are resurrected. The ensembles – which populate the Mediterranean gulf from neighborhood to neighborhood: Montesanto; Borgo Vergini/Sanità; Scampia/Secondigliano; Quartieri Spagnoli; Forcella – can finally have the opportunity to perform live on the stage of the Teatro San Carlo. It is an unmissable event, scheduled for Monday 3 June from 18 pm, the one coming up at the Neapolitan Massimo. A spring evening in which to let the inspiration, creativity, and grace of underage musicians flourish, who are gifted with personality, groove, talent, executive measure, and mutual rhythmic listening, to the point of becoming capable contemporary witnesses.
A Project of Inclusion and Talent
For the first edition of this project produced by the Il Canto di Virgilio Foundation – which has among its priorities the development of the arts and knowledge of music – and promoted by the Arciconfraternita ed Ospedali della SS. Trinità dei Pellegrini e Convalescenti, five Neapolitan youth orchestras come together for an occasion in which music from every era and geography is celebrated to spread and share transversal cultural phenomena. Music as a living and physical symbol that reacts to scenarios of educational poverty, social risk and marginalization. The initiative, sponsored by Naples City of Music, will see the participation of the Sanitansamble and Piccola Orchestra di Forcella, the Orchestra Sinfonica dei Quartieri Spagnoli with the Coro della Società Polifonica Pietrasanta, the Orchestra Musica Libera Tutti di Scampia and the ScalzaBanda. One after the other on stage, each in its own repertoire until they come together in a single musical body for the choral finale.
Over 200 Young Musicians on Stage
Introduced by presenter/journalist Enzo Perone, the protagonists on the stage of the oldest opera house in the world will be approximately two hundred. Musicians from all walks of life, ready and crackling with their violins, tubas, cellos, clarinets, trumpets, double basses, bassoons, percussion instruments, flutes, pianos, guitars, French horns, trombones. Five groups that include young men and women to create a fascinating sonic vortex at the Teatro San Carlo that sways from classical music to experimental jazz, from easy listening to sacred music, up to the divertissements of Neapolitan songs and film soundtracks.
A Rich Musical Program
Here then in the lineup, in sets divided by twenty minutes for each orchestra, compositions by George Bizet and Isaac Merle (Piccola Orchestra di Forcella), Franz Schubert and Edvard Grieg (Sanitansamble). The “Love Theme” by Nino Rota for the film “Romeo and Juliet” directed by Franco Zeffirelli, “Feed the Birds” by the Sherman Brothers for the cult feature film “Mary Poppins” and “'E spingule francese” by Salvatore Di Giacomo and Enrico De Leva (Orchestra Musica Libera Tutti) and also the theme “The Pink Panther” by Henry Mancini from the brilliant comedy of the same name for the big screen and “Birdland” by Weather Report (ScalzaBanda). The collective epilogue will be the “Te Deum” by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. The show will last two hours in total.
Ticket Details
Tickets cost 10 euros and will be on sale from May 15 (both at the physical box office and for online purchases). Box office: 081 797 2331.
Article published on May 29, 2024 - 11:37 pm
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