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Pink Songs in a female good mood by Duo Alterno

Pink Songs
A Duo Alterno’s project
with contemporary music
in a female good mood

A new concert program made up by the Duo Alterno in the twentieth anniversary of its musical career, that in more than one hundred tours in fifty countries of five continents has collected “foto-suoni” and images linking them to the voice-piano repertoire of the Italian contemporary composers. Among these, many women composers, such as Roberta Vacca from Rome, Sonia Bo and Rossella Spinosa from Milan, Teresa Procaccini from Foggia, Marcella Pavia born in Argentina but living in Italy. And there are also two very amusing pieces by the unforgettable Cathy Berberian and, finally, one timeless work by John Cage for voice and closed piano, where the female presence is represented by a “beautiful widow of eighteen springs” on Joyce’s texts. Four FOTO-SONGS recorded by the Duo Alterno across the world and “com-posed” by Riccardo Piacentini are merged in the concert program through a precise fil rouge: they come from different metropolitan streets of the world, with a lot of female voices, from Melbourne and Istanbul (nocturnal sounds and didgeridoo), from Addis Abeba and São Paulo do Brasil (children), from San Francisco and Portland (cable cars and tin drums), from Beijing and Bangkok (buskers and popular markets)… all in a musically stunning reportage of soundscapes caught in five continents.

PROGRAM

Roberta Vacca
Versi di gatti (2003, vers. 2018)
for mewing voice and piano
(text freely extracted from “La gatomaquia” by Lope de Vega)
Dedicated to the Duo Alterno

Cathy Berberian
Morsicathy (1969)
for piano, morse code and mosquito
Stripsody (1966)
for voice and comic strips by Roberto Zamarin

Riccardo Piacentini (1958)
FOTO-SONGS from the streets of the world (2011/16)
– Foto-song 1. Nocturnal sounds from Melbourne, and a didgeridoo in Istanbul center
– Foto-song 2. Children in Addis Abeba and in São Paulo do Brasil
for videoprojections and “foto-suoni” recorded and com-posed by the Duo Alterno

Sonia Bo (1961)
Per umbram (1999)
for piano and images by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Marcela Pavia (1957)
Non lo sperar da me (2018)
on “Mi lagnerò tacendo” [I will complain silently] of Gioachino Rossini
(text by Sandro Cappelletto)
dedicated to the Duo Alterno

Teresa Procaccini
Rifrazioni (2007)

Rossella Spinosa (1971)
Miniatura Zero (2017)
5 Miniature (2016)
for voice and piano played inside and outside
“Miniatura Zero” is dedicated to the Duo Alterno

Riccardo Piacentini (1958)
FOTO-SONGS from the streets of the world (2011/16)
– Foto-song 3. Cable car in San Francisco and tin drums in Portland
for videoprojections and “foto-suoni” recorded and com-posed by the Duo Alterno
– Foto-song 4. Busker in Beijing, and Saturday night in Bangkok China Town
for videoprojections and “foto-suoni” recorded and com-posed by the Duo Alterno

John Cage (1912-1992)
The wonderful widow of eighteen springs (1942)
for voice and closed piano
(text by James Joyce)

The Duo Alterno (Tiziana Scandalettisoprano, Riccardo Piacentinipiano and foto-songs)from Turin-Italy is considered one of the most significant reference points in the vocal-piano repertoire ranging from the early 20th century to today. Since its debut in Vancouver in 1997 it has taken the best Italian music to about 50 countries of 5 continents.

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  • Organiserad av: Istituto Italiano di Cultura
  • I samarbete med: Folkuniversitet