Dee Dee Bridgewater Quartet, Mike Stern & Randy Brecker Band, Mauro Pagani and Paola Turci with Gino Castaldo: they are the big names “CarpInMusica” 2024the event organized by the Municipality, in collaboration with the ATER Foundation, as part of “La Carpi Estate”, which will take place from 1 July to 28 August.
The program has been approved by the Council, and they will soon be available for purchase paid tickets for the four concerts (single price €12 and unassigned seat): the sale will in fact start Saturday 18 Mayat Incarpi (from Tuesday to Sunday 10am-6pm, cash desk closing 5.30pm) or online on the Vivaticket circuit.
The calendar, curated by the artistic director of the municipal theater Maestro Carlo Guaitoli, includes 14 concerts, of which ten are free, distributed in the traditional venues in Piazzale Re Astolfo (“CarpIinJazz” and “Mundus”) and in the courtyard of honor of Palazzo dei Pio (“CarpInClassica” and “The Guitar Week”).
Here is the detailed program of the new edition (shows start at 9.30pm, public entrance at 9.00pm):
CARPINJAZZ
To inaugurate the jazz programme, Saturday 13 Julythe paid concert of Dee Dee Bridgewater Quartet “meets” Medit Orchestra (conducted by Angelo Valori). In the all-female quartet, there are as well as the American jazz legend Carmen Staaf (piano), Evita Polidoro (drums) and Rosa Brunello (double bass). The following week, Friday 19 July, he will be at The Swingers Orchestra with the “Duke Ellington in Harlem” concert. Tuesday 30 July finally the duo formed by Mike Stern & Randy Brecker Band, the first guitarist, the other trumpet player. This is also for a fee.
MUNDUS
There are two appointments – both for a fee – as part of “Mundus”the review curated by ATER: Thursday 4 July will go on stage Mauro Paganimulti-instrumentalist, composer and record producer, who was part of the myth PFM (“Premiata Forneria Marconi”) and he collaborated with many other Italian authors and musicians, from De André to Ligabue, from Vecchioni to Guccini. In Carpi, Pagani will bring his own “Crêuza de Mä”, a record published in 2004, re-proposing the one written twenty years earlier with Fabrizio De André, with lyrics in Genoese and Mediterranean sounds.
Wednesday 24 July instead the show with live music by Paola Turci and Gino Castaldo, “The Time of the Giants”dedicated to the years 1979, 1980 and 1981, the three magical years of Italian music: stories, period films to remember the masterpieces of Dalla and Battiato, iconic songs by De André, Vasco Rossi, De Gregori, Paolo Conte, hits by Bennato, Pino Daniele, Fossati, Battisti.
CARPINCLASSICA
It will be a classical concert to inaugurate the programme “CarpInMusica” Monday 1st July with the music of van Beethoven, Waxman, Brahms performed by Mattia Pagliani (violin) and Nicole Costoli (piano). A week later, the “Gate Duo”that is to say Simone Bellagamba (saxophone) and William Belpassi (piano) Lòpez, Eychenne, Bédard, Creston, Fitkin will play. Monday 15 July, Chihiro Nagumo (mezzo-soprano) accompanied by Hiromasa Tabata on the piano they will perform music by Schumann, Liszt, and Strauss. Monday 22 July it will be the turn of the “C3-ChiesaCellosCremona” project, namely Silvia Chiesa – internationally renowned concert pianist and teacher at the Cremona Conservatory, who will perform with her cellist students on music by Bach and Villa-Lobos. Monday 29 July, female duo composed of Margherita Russo (flute) and Nicole Pedroni (harp) for WA Mozart, C. Saint-Säens, M. Ravel, G. Briccialdi. In the end, Monday 6 August piano concert (music by M. Clementi, L. van Beethoven, F. Chopin) by the young talent from Correggio, Carlo Alberto Bacchi, 23 years old.
THE GUITAR WEEK
August, as per tradition, rhymes with guitar. The artists of the “six strings” will be the protagonists of the “Guitar Week”actually three concerts, one a week: Monday 12th, Wednesday 21st and Wednesday 28th.
