Music Day, which takes place every year on 21 June, the day of the summer solstice, was established in France on 21 June 1982 as an initiative conceived by the French Ministry of Culture to promote awareness of musical heritage among all audiences through performances by musicians, both amateur and professional, in streets, courtyards, squares, gardens, stations and museums. Since 1985, the European Year of Music, the Music Festival has been held across Europe and around the world. The AIPFM – the Italian Association for the Promotion of the Music Festival – coordinates the organisational activities in Italy, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and other institutions.
Il Museo Nazionale d’Abruzzo dell’Aquila, in collaboration with the Italian Music Festival Association, is also taking part in the 32nd edition of the Music Festival, which celebrates “The Voice of Places” and Italy’s great choral tradition.
The museum will host the concert ‘Four for Music’, performed by the Pessoa Quartet and dedicated to the most beautiful soundtracks by Maestro Ennio Morricone, as well as to the ‘Nuevo Tango’ music of Astor Piazzolla.
The Pessoa Quartet, comprising Marco Quaranta and Rita Gucci on violins, Achille Taddeo on viola and Marco Simonacci on cello, performs a wide-ranging repertoire by Astor Piazzolla and Ennio Morricone, two great innovative composers who, throughout their lives, had the opportunity to work with established directors and extraordinary musicians, both Italian and international, from their early works in the 1960s right through to the 1990s and beyond, creating wonderful soundtracks and unforgettable songs Milongas and tangos that have rightfully earned their place in the pantheon of music.
“A sad thought that is danced”.
This famous phrase is a perfect epithet for the tango; it sums up the essence of this dance, which blends European melodies and harmonic elements with African and Native American rhythms.
A fusion of genres and elements born out of marginalisation and social deprivation in the slums of Buenos Aires.
Music for the marginalised, by the marginalised, from all over the world.
Piazzolla drew the ire of his more traditionalist compatriots by creating the Nuevo Tango, a new musical form, with compositions designed primarily to be listened to.
Ennio Morricone’s music has now become part of our collective imagination.
We all have a scene from a film we love etched in our memory, but it is the music that accompanies it that brings the memory to life.
In cinema, every shot has its own specific musical counterpart in the soundtrack. And Morricone has brought countless visual images to life, using his compositions to colour the scenes captured on hundreds of films.
Quartetto Pessoa
Marco Quaranta and Rita Gucci, violin
Achille Taddeo, viola
Marco Simonacci, cello
Program
- Ennio Morricone Nuovo Cinema Paradiso: Giovinezza-Prima gioventù – Tema dell’amore
- Ennio Morricone Malena
- Ennio Morricone C’era una volta in America: Deborah-Poverty-Cockeye
- Ennio Morricone C’era una volta il West
- Ennio Morricone Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo
- Ennio Morricone Il pianista sull’oceano – Playling Love
- Ennio Morricone Mission Gabriel’s Oboe
- Astor Piazzolla Oblivion
- Astor Piazzolla Adios Nonino
- Astor Piazzolla Milonga del angel
- Astor Piazzolla Muerte del angel
- Astor Piazzolla Violentango
- Astor Piazzolla Libertango
- Ennio Morricone Estasi dell’Oro
