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HIGH LEVEL MUSIC: THE SOUNDS OF THE DOLOMITES
“I SUONI DELLE DOLOMITI”
Great Event Unites Two Passions: Mountains and Music
Annely Zeni
On the path to the mountains and to music. Punctually, with the onset of the summer, here comes the celebrated saga of “I Suoni delle Dolomiti” (The Sounds of the Dolomites), a festival of music at high altitudes that has become a not-to-be-missed rendezvous for the great numbers of tourists who flow into the Trentino Region from July through September. From the Pale di San Martino to Monte Baldo, from the Monti Lessini to the Presanella, from the Brenta to the Latemar and many more, meadows, shepherds’ huts and alpine shelters are transformed into theatres and stages for artists coming from a wide variety of musical backgrounds, attracted by the prestigious name obtained by offering in its programmes jazz, classical, ethnic music and popular songs. Top of the list are Sergio Cammariere, with his style that merges the spirit of blues with South American rhythms, Gianmaria Testa, just back from the presentation of his latest work “Da Questa Parte del Mare” (On this Side of the Sea), poetic reflections on the migratory movements of our days, Nicola Piovani, pianist and composer of film sound tracks, and the Banda Osiris, protagonists of the first appointment scheduled for the Dolomites of Brenta. In the classical music sector, “I Suoni delle Dolomiti” will host friends who are now established, like the cellist Mario Brunello and the violinist Uto Ughi, together with the Rome Philharmonic on July 22nd at Paneveggio. This park will also offer the crossover, pianist-phenomenon of the moment Giovanni Allevi with I Virtuosi Italiani. For exotic-ethnic music lovers, there will be the Palestine musician Adel Salameh, oud virtuoso, and Trilok Gourtu, a magician of African and Indian drums, or, coming back to our Italian shores, the Officina Zoè, specialists in the unique musical tradition of the Salento region. And there is more: the festival of world music with two trios of the Balkan area, led respectively by Ivan Papasov, the sensational Bulgarian virtuoso of the clarinet, descendent of a lineage of zurna players, the most famous musician of wedding music, and Florin Niculescu, with his gipsy violin. At Alimonta on Sunday August 5th, classical music with the string quartet of La Scala, while on the Adamello at the Rifugio Mandron, on August 22nd, a performance will be held of the five brass instruments of the Gomalan Brass Ensemble, a quintet made up of particularly eclectic musicians who are even able to propose their version of Verdi’s Aida, without elephants but with exquisite irony and showmanship.
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