An evening of classical music, at the Teatro del Popoloto do memory of Giacomo Matteottithe deputy kidnapped and killed for denouncing fascist violence and fraud in the elections of the spring of 1924, one hundred years ago.
It’s the new appointment of Gallaratese Committee for the 100th Anniversary Celebrations: will be held Thursday 6 June, protagonists piano students of the Puccini Conservatorywho will perform in a concert entitled “Fauré and Debussy, Préludes”.
«The prestigious Gallaratese educational institution thus intends to pay public homage, a few days after the centenary of his death, to the Statesman who still today represents all the democratic values later reaffirmed by our Republican Constitution» he says for the Committee Angelo Bruno Protasoni.
If in some places the memory of Matteotti has even been contested as a “partisan” ceremony, the Gallaratese Committee is confident that it can be “a moment that can and must be shared by everyone, beyond any contingent division between the political parties” . Just as the Gallarate ceremony in April in via Matteotti was a united moment, with the presence of councilors from different parties and civic lists.
Gallarate remembers Matteotti, defender of democracy and man of progress
The venue of Thursday’s concert is also significant: the Teatro del Popolo, part of the Casa del Popolo which included the union headquarters, was in fact built by the city’s workers and then devastated by the fascist squads in September 1922, in the midst of the squad offensive that would lead to the March on Rome. «Remembering here, on Thursday evening, the assassination of Giacomo Matteotti has a profound meaning».
One hundred years of Teatro del Popolo: the workers’ palace opened on 30 October 1921
