Lamezia Terme – Success for the start of “Μου&Μουσ – Musica & Museo”, the first concert season in the museums and archaeological parks of Calabria, conceived by the Animula cultural association directed by Claudio Fittante and promoted by the Calabria Regional Museums Directorate directed by Filippo Demma . To open the first weekend of events, in the conference room of the Lamezzo archaeological museum directed by Simona Bruni, the guitarist and historian Romolo Calandruccio, already “Golden Guitar” for musicological research 2023, prize awarded to him at the “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory of Music ” from Milan. Calandruccio, upon returning from his trip to Cambridge where he was elected ordinary member of “The Cambridge Consortium for Guitar Research”, one of the most important world conferences on the guitar and plucked instruments, held a masterclass on the figure of Ferdinand in the Lamezzo museum Carulli, the object of his commitment as a researcher, in which musicians, enthusiasts and students of some State Musical Institutes participating in the Network of State Musical Institutes promoted by Animula took part.
On April 20th, a double appointment for the “Lametos” guitar quartet composed of Francesco Michele De Fazio, Angela Ferraro, Claudio Fittante and Vittorio Viscomi, in the two archaeological museums of Crotone and Capo Colonna. In the presence of the director of the two museum sites Gregorio Aversa, the music enlivened the paths of numerous visitors, Italians and foreign tourists, who expressed appreciation and enthusiasm for the sounds expressed by the ensemble and for the variety of the repertoire containing compositions by G. Pachelbel, G. Rossini, FM Torroba, MD Pujol, L. Brouwer and others. The quartet’s performance had an exceptional setting offered by the finds on display in the spaces of the two museums, allowing visitors to enjoy the interpretations by experiencing the museum experience in a different way.
In the third appointment, again at the archaeological museum of Lamezia with the guitar and voice duo composed of Gaetano Cinque and Giovanna Massara, in the show entitled: “The Neapolitan Song: intangible heritage of humanity between history and beauty”, a journey through musical poetry Neapolitan music from the sixteenth-century “Villanelle” to the compositions of the post-war period most representative of that “pure melody”, universally identified in Neapolitan authorial music. The program highlighted the link between Neapolitan song and Spanish influences with the guitar performances of songs such as “Serenata Española” by J. Malats and “Recuerdos de la Alhambra” by F. Tarrega as well as the singing interpretations that the two artists have given the different songs. Gaetano Cinque captured the audience’s attention by briefly introducing the different compositions with unpublished news and curiosities, preparing the listener for the masterful interpretation that Giovanna Massara, soprano, singing teacher at the Campanella High School in Lamezia Terme and director of the “SS. Polyphonic Choir. Trinità – City of Catanzaro”, gave to the spectators.
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