Also this year the municipal administration has registered the city of Messina among the Italian municipalities that offer the “Italian Music Festival”, 2024 edition. The event, sponsored by the Municipality of Messina, takes place on Friday 21 June, to celebrate the summer solstice with music, and on Sunday 23 June. The Administration, through the Department of Cultural Policies, coordinated the calendar of the various activities proposed in collaboration with the A. Corelli Conservatory, the AOSTA Brigade, the Theater Authority and the associations that offered their performances and/or or shows.
The aim of the Music Festival is to spread the values of music and the artists’ performances, in principle, free of charge.
The European Music Day was born in Paris on 21 June 1982, providing, throughout France, the performance of young and old musicians in squares, urban spaces and gardens. Since 1985 it has been celebrated in almost all European cities; in Italy it arrived first in Rome and then in Naples and is promoted by the Council of Ministers and the Ministry of Culture with the participation of numerous Italian municipalities.
The program includes the following events:
“VITTORIO EMANUELE” THEATER
7.00 pm – Concert by the Symphony Orchestra of the “A. Corelli” (made up of students, teachers and trainees of “Corelli”), directed by Maestro Francesco Ommassini, teacher of Orchestral Practice at the Peloritano Musical Institute).
Pieces performed: Symphony from the “Barbiere di Siviglia” by G. Rossini; Dear companions from V. Bellini’s “Sonnambula”, Suite n. 2 from “Arlesienne” by G. Bizet, the Symphony from “Joan of Arc” by G. Verdi, Ernani, involami from “Ernani” by G. Verdi and the Suite n. 2 from “Carmen” by G. Bizet. Soloist is the Messina soprano Francesca Mannino.
Friday 21 June
CAIROLI SQUARE
7.30 pm – Performance by the AOSTA Brigade Musical Band
8.30 pm – “Night of Notes”. Performance of a band and singers with a dance troupe, organized by MP Eventi
MUSIC ON THE PELORITANI, edited by the Kiklos and Don Minico Association
Museum of Culture and Popular Music of the Peloritani Gesso Village
5.00 pm – “Apollo’s Lyre and the music of the spheres” Giuseppe Severini, luthier-musician.
Don Minico – Colle San Rizzo, “Tano Cimarosa” Arena – Terraces in the woods.
6.30 pm – “Sounds of pan”, organized by the players of the Peloritan pastoral tradition and “voices of the popular Nebroidean soul” organized by the Mamertine Galatian singers
7.15pm – “A sparkling musical journey into the twentieth century, Mandolin promenade”.
Duo Effe, Camilla Finardi. mandolin; Massimiliano Filippini, guitar
8.15pm – “When the moon sang”. Songs, dances and fairy tales of the Sicilian tradition
“Sikania Minor Deus” Company – Traditional instrumental vocal ensemble
Sunday – 23 June
Salice village -P.za Canonica
9.00 pm – Music Festival organized by the Proloco Casali Peloritani in collaboration with the Parish of S. Stefano Juniore, the Salice Music Band Association and the “Curiamo Salice” Group.
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