Name: Nelle Vene Dell'America
Start: 2018-07-07T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2018-07-07T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Palazzo Mauro De André

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Ravenna Festival

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RAI National Symphony Orchestra

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James Conlon

Nelle Vene Dell'America

Ravenna

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Palazzo Mauro De André

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Candide

Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten

Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20

Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, op. 95 B. 178

Larissa Andrea Pereira

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Nell’autunno 1940, Benjamin Britten e Peter Pears abitano a Brooklyn Heights con il poeta Wystan Hugh Auden e una compagnia formata da Salvador Dalì, Christopher Isherwood e Leonard Bernstein. Anche se la guerra è lontana, l’America non appaga le speranze del compositore inglese (“qui è tutta una moda”, confessa), ma in quell’autoesilio Britten apprende da Broadway, il primo palcoscenico di Candide, nuove tecniche per il suo teatro musicale. Intanto, la sua voce dolente matura nella Sinfonia da Requiem, che debutta nel 1941 alla Carnegie Hall, la stessa sala in cui, quasi mezzo secolo prima, Antonín Dvořák aveva presentato la Sinfonia “Dal Nuovo Mondo”. Il grande direttore americano James Conlon vi accosta il Cantus di Arvo Pärt, omaggio alla “inusitata purezza” che il compositore estone ha scorto proprio in Britten.

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In the autumn of 1940, Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears lived in Brooklyn Heights with W.H. Auden, and in the company of Salvador Dalì, Christopher Isherwood and Leonard Bernstein. Even if the war was far away, America did not satisfy the hopes of the English composer (“Everything’s a passing fad here”, he confessed). And yet, while self-exiled in Broadway, where his Candide was first staged, he learned the new techniques he would later use in his musical theatre. In the meantime, his sorrowful mood emerged in the Sinfonia da Requiem, premièred in 1941 at Carnegie Hall, the very same venue where, almost half a century earlier, Antonín Dvořák had first performed his Symphony from the New World. The American conductor James Conlon now proposes them in a programme that also includes Arvo Pärt’s Cantus, the Estonian composer’s tribute to Britten’s “unusual purity”.

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Nelle Vene Dell'America by Bernstein, Pärt, Britten, Dvořák, De (2018/2018), Director musical James Conlon, Palazzo Mauro De André, Ravenna, Italy

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