QUARTETTO DEL MARE | PICCOLA ORCHESTRA DEI POPOLI
Metamorfosi
Concert organised by Fondazione Festival dei Due Mondi
Quartetto del Mare
Pietro Boscacci violin
Aura Fazio violin
Susanna Tognella viola
Chiara Torselli cello
Piccola Orchestra dei Popoli
Renata Mezenov Sa vocals, guitar (Cuba)
Sever “Persic” Iancu accordeon (Romania)
Arup Kanti Das tabla, udu drum, vocals (India)
Shinobu Kikuchi vocals, san-shin (Japan)
Ermira Zonja vocals (Albania)
Neslihan Yilmazel vocals, davul (Turkey)
Ghazi Makhoul vocals, oud (Lebanon)
Art direction
Ciro Menale
The Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti hosts the Metamorfosi project, born from the initiative of the Fondazione Casa dello Spirito e delle Arti, which seeks to give dignity and job opportunities to people in situations of serious social hardship: together on stage the Quartetto del Mare and the Piccola Orchestra dei Popoli, both active in the social and volunteering spheres, bring their experiences to the stage. Starting with the instruments: the wood of the violins, viola and cello played by the Quartetto del Mare comes from the boats used by the migrants who landed on Lampedusa.
The first “Violin of the Sea” was made by the inmates of the Violin and Carpentry Workshop of the Milan-Opera Prison with a technique that was used in England in the 16th century to make violas da gamba. Nicola Piovani, special guest of the evening, is among the first musicians to have joined the initiative by dedicating Canto del legno to this instrument, a piece premiered for Pope Francis by the first violin of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Carlo Parazzoli, which will also be performed in this concert. Thanks to the skilful hands of the lute-makers involved and the inmates of a number of Italian penitentiary institutes, the wood from around 60 boats from the Favarolo dock in Lampedusa was transformed into musical instruments, with the aim of creating a true ‘Orchestra of the Sea’.
The Piccola Orchestra dei Popoli is an artistic workshop of the Fondazione Casa dello Spirito e delle Arti that brings together musicians from different cultures and religions: from traditional Turkish and Lebanese songs to Japanese ones, from David Maria Turoldo’s music poetry to Argentine tango and Balkan melodies. The concert closes with a tribute to Maestro Nicola Piovani and a performance of the song ‘Life is beautiful’.
The concert, which raises funds specifically for the Fondazione Casa dello Spirito e delle Arti, is a unique opportunity for participation and intercultural dialogue: two musical worlds meet in Spoleto, that of the Western classical tradition and the multiethnic world of non-European traditions.
The proceeds of the evening will be donated to the Fondazione Casa dello Spirito e delle Arti.
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