‘New musical spaces’, the festival kicks off on October 15th in Ascoli Piceno

On October 15th the 42nd edition of today’s music festival “New musical spaces”, curated by the composer Ada Gentile, will start in Ascoli Piceno. The Review will be divided into 6 events that will be held, with free admission, on 15-19-22-26-29 and 31 October, at 20.30, at the Auditorium Neroni (Via del Cassero). In the opening concert, dedicated to the “pocket operas”, two funny works by the composers Biagio Putignano (text by Paolo Peretti) and, in 1st overall, by Mario Berlinguer (text by Giobbe Covatta) will be proposed. The young and promising pianist from Ascoli Alessio Falciani will be the protagonist of the second concert with a program of great virtuosity, with works by Liszt, Rachmaninov, Bach / Busoni and a world premiere by the Cremonese composer Gabrio Taglietti. The third appointment will be dedicated to Dante Alighieri (on the 700th anniversary of his death) and to Cecco d’Ascoli, rivals engaged in numerous doctrinal battles, with an interesting conference held by Donatella Ferretti, with the participation of Ivana Manni and guitarist Giulia Cappelli . The fourth concert will be entrusted to two excellent soloists, the flutist Andrea Biagini and the guitarist Luigi Sini, who will propose very recent works by 21st century authors including Marcello Panni, Lucio Gregoretti, Francesco Pennisi, Morton Feldman and a world premiere of the Japanese Fuijkura. At the fifth round, two other “pocket operas” by composers Fabrizio De Rossi Re (text by Luis Gabriel Santiago) and Ada Gentile (text taken from “Stranalandia” by Stefano Benni) will be performed for the first time. Performing them will be the Ensemble formed by Sabrina Gentili (piano), Giusy Di Biase (sax), Riccardo Sanna (bayan) and Ludovico Venturelli (Percussions) together with the soprano Annalisa Di Ciccio, the bass Stefano Stella and the reciting voice of Donatella Ferretti . The Director will be Giuliano Di Giuseppe. The closing concert will finally be entrusted to the exceptional “Quartetto di Fiesole” which, after the great success of last year, returns to Ascoli, accompanied by the pianist Andrea Rucli, with a program dedicated to the French School (Milhaud and Debussy). All the concerts will be recorded by Radio Cemat which will broadcast them in 23 countries. The Festival was organized with the contribution of the Municipality of Ascoli, the Marche Region and the Cassa di Risparmio di Ascoli Foundation. Admission will be free but with “green pass”, mask and reservations required at the cell. 349/5607561 (from 10 to 13).