Saturday 20 April, at 9pmIn the Molfetta Music Palace (in via Cifariello 25, next to Piazza Minuto Pesce), begins «The Season of the Muses», a review of music, singing and theater shows with the artistic direction by Francesco Tammacco. Six appointmentswhich will last until the first days of June, in which Apulian artists and musicians will perform in projects of great charm, with research paths that offer a glimpse into various styles and themes.
Starting from the first of Saturday 20 April, «An Evening With Ziggy Stardust», in which the absolute protagonist will be Pierpaolo Martinoassociate professor of English Literature at the University of Bari Aldo Moro and musician: the evening will experience a double moment, with the presentation of the volume by Martino himself «Read Ziggy. David Bowie and English literature: from George Orwell to Hanif Kureishi» (Ed. Mimesis), followed by «Ziggy Plays Bass», a special tribute to David Bowie, in which the musician from Bari will play the double bass, magnetic tapes and electronics. Tickets at 12 euros, reduced to 10 euros for under 16s and over 65s (subscription to six shows 55 euros, reduced 50 euros). Infotel: 340.557.15.27 – 339.775.81.73.
It is a tribute to Bowie’s best-known mask, Ziggy Stardust, on the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the famous album «The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars», which presents itself as an alien, transversal narrative, written starting from the margins of the so-called «Bowie discourse», deconstructing and recomposing melodic inventions, electronic «drones», bass lines, vocal fragments, readings of lyrics and more. The result – in each performance which is unexpected and unpredictable every time – is the fruit of a poetics linked not only to «Bowie glam», but also and above all to the Berlin electronic experiments of Bowie and Brian Eno (documented by albums such as «Heroes», «Low” And “Lodgers»), as well as the improvisational and jazz impulse that nourishes his latest work, «Blackstar».
The Palace of Musicentitled to Don Salvatore Pappagallois a historical place in the city of Molfetta. The building has had various uses over the centuries: in 1978 it was handed over to Don Pappagallo, a visionary and far-sighted priest who spent his life for music and the musical education of the new generations. Thanks to public funding, after a careful restoration by the Municipality of Molfetta, the Palace was entrusted through a public tender to the ATS «Palazzo delle Muse». The ATS sees the union of musical and theatrical associations that carry out wide-ranging educational, concert and theatrical activities, with the addition of record productions.
BIOGRAPHY Pierpaolo Martino
Pierpaolo Martino (Bari, 1975) is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Aldo Moro University of Bari. He deals with cultural studies, modernist and contemporary literature, and the relationship between literature and music. He has published more than fifty studies on literary, musical and cinematographic topics on authors such as Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Colin MacInnes, Alan Sillitoe, Philip Larkin, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Salman Rushdie, Kamau Brathwaite, Hanif Kureishi, Hari Kunzru , Michael Ondaatje, Derek Jarman, Barry Guy, Eberhard Weber, Bruno Chevillon, Beatles, David Bowie, Morrissey, Nick Cave, Smiths and Radiohead. He is the author of six monographs: «Virginia Woolf: The Music of the Lighthouse. Page and improvisation» (2003), «Down in Albion. Studies in English pop culture» (2007), «Mark the Music. The Language of Music in English Literature from Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie» (2012), «The Philosophy of David Bowie. Wilde, Kemp and music as theatre» (2016), «Read Ziggy. David Bowie and English literature: from George Orwell to Hanif Kureishi» (2022) and «Wilde Now. Performance, celebrity and intermediality in Oscar Wilde» (Palgrave, 2023). He writes regularly for publications such as Musica Jazz, Music/Reality and The Index of Books of the Month.
As a musician he began studying the electric bass at the age of 15 and began studying the double bass in 1993 at the «Niccolò Piccinni» Conservatory in Bari. He followed several seminars on improvisation, both in Italy and abroad, and studied with the French double bass player Joelle Leandre and American double bass player Mark Dresser. He is part of Italian-British ensembles such as «Frequency Disasters» (in trio with Steve Beresford and Valentina Magaletti) and «The Dinner Party» (in trio with Adrian Northover and Vladimir Miller).
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