BUSTO ARSIZIO – They will take place in the Sanctuary of Santa Maria di Piazza, four of the 24 “out of town” concerts of Piano City Milano, the widespread music festival of the metropolis now at home in Busto Arsizio. The appointment is for Sunday 19 May, a month in which, words of deputy mayor Manuela Maffioli«Culture blossoms in Bustonot only from a literary point of view, with BA Book, and artistic, with M(a)y Fiber, but also musically.” It’s the fourth time that Busto Arsizio manages to be included in the Milan network for this important event.
Milan City Plan
On the bill – again thanks to the partnership between the cultural association Musicademia APS, the association Educate yourself and theISSM Puccini of Gallaratewith the patronage of the Municipality – there are four concerts that will be hosted in the Sanctuary of Santa Maria on Sunday 19 May, at 10.30am, 4pm, 6pm and 8.30pm. Space for talented young musicians – all students of “Puccini”, Elena I’m writing, Alessandro De Maestri, Luca Giola, Fabio De Bortoli – who will be able to perform in public on the piano. «Being able to include Busto Arsizio among the cities hosting this important festival for the fourth consecutive year is a source of great satisfaction – he explains Davide Bontempo, president and artistic director of Musikademia – I thank Don Severino Pagani who also accepted our proposal this year to hold the four concerts within the beautiful setting of the Sanctuary of Santa Maria».
City of music
Pride shared with the deputy mayor and councilor for culture Manuela Maffioli. «The intuition of Piano City Milano is that of stumble upon concerts and we trust that the people who will walk in Piazza Santa Maria on Sunday 19 May will be attracted by the music coming from the Sanctuary”. For Busto Arsizio the formula of the is renewed four concerts throughout the dayalready successfully tested in 2023. And it is yet another proposal for music in the city: «It is the cultural language that boasts the greatest number of associations in the city” recalls deputy mayor Maffioli.
Symphonic Season, last act
And in fact music will also be the protagonist Sunday 12 May at 6pm in Sala Pro Bustowith the fifth and final appointment of the 2023-2024 Symphony Season, which on the occasion of the 39th Bustese International Guitar Festival will feature a young Spanish prodigy, Ausias Parejo, accompanied by the Du.Ca Orchestra. directed by Maestro Davide Bontempo in Concierto de Medujar for Guitar and Orchestra by Anton Garcia Abril, composer of the so-called “generation of ’51”.
Guitars at Pro Busto
Valencian, 18 years old, Ausias Parejo is an accomplished interpreter winner of 36 competitions and already a guest in numerous prestigious festivals in Italy, Croatia, Portugal, United States, Mexico, France, Czech Republic and Spain. His performance will be held in the hall in via Cesare Battisti, recovered thanks to the municipal administration later the “hard blow” – words of Bontempo – of the closing of the Teatro Sociale Delia Cajelli. But for the Guitar Festival founded by Pieralberto Pizzolotto it is a sort of return to the origins: «The Sala Pro Busto hosted the first edition 39 years ago and the great Segovia also played there” recalls Pizzolotto. Furthermore, «although she is smaller than the club – underlines Maestro Bontempo – It has good acoustics especially for concerts featuring the classical guitar.”
