HERCULANEUM – Friday 21 June 2024, from 6pm to 9.30pm, the European Music Festival 2024 will take place in the Herculaneum excavations, at the Mav/Virtual Archaeological Museum of Herculaneum and at the Royal Palace of Portici, on three special stages enlivened by the music of students from local music and dance high schools.
The “European Music Festival 2024”, organized by the Metropolitan City of Naples with students from musical and dance high schools, with the patronage of the Municipalities of Portici, Ercolano and the Faculty of Agriculture of the Federico II University of Naples, this year ago in three: the notes to welcome the summer will resonate at the MAV-Virtual Archaeological Museum of Ercolano, the Galoppatoio of the Royal Palace of Portici and the Excavations of Ercolano.
The event, which will be attended by the councilors of the Metropolitan City delegated for Planning and School Buildings Ilaria Abagnale and Marianna Salierno, sees as protagonists the students of the following musical and dance high schools in the Metropolitan City of Naples: ‘Margherita Di Savoia’ high school in Naples , the Isis ‘Melissa Bassi’ of Naples, the ‘Palizzi’ high school of Naples, the ‘Francesco Severi’ of Castellammare di Stabia, the ‘Bruno Munari’ high school of Acerra, the Isis ‘Girolamo Albertini’ of Nola, the high school ‘Pitagora-Benedetto Croce’ of Torre Annunziata and the Isis ‘Giuseppe Moscati’ of Sant’Antimo.
The event will start at 6.00 pm in the theater hall of the MAV in Ercolano, where the ‘Palizzi’ dance and musical high school of Naples will perform with the orchestra and the dance troupe. Among the pieces on the program are Presentimento by EA Mario, Tu ca nun chiagn by L. Bovio and E. De Curtis, the concert in C major for mandolin and strings by Vivaldi, the Symphony in D minor by Francesco Piccone, the Sant’Elmo from Pujol’s Buenos Aires Suite. And then a real gem: A truth nunn è, an unreleased song whose authors are the kids from the musical high school.
At 7.00 pm, at the Galoppatoio of the Royal Palace of Portici, the Wind Orchestra of the ‘Margherita di Savoia’ musical high school of Naples will perform with a repertoire that ranges from Giacomo Puccini with the Corazzata Sicilia on themes of “Boheme” to Lorenzo Bocci with A Tribute To Nino Rota via Johano De Meij, Moment For Morricone. Followed by the ‘Melissa Bassi’ orchestra with Yo Soy Maria by Astor Piazzolla, Anima Sonora by Antonio Graziano, Passeggiando per Brooklyn by Heghel Gualdi, All Of Me by Gerald Marks and Seymour Simons and Brindisi from Giuseppe Verdi’s Traviata. The ‘Francesco Severi’ Big Band from Castellammare di Stabia presents Oye Como Va by Tito Puente, I Remember by Clifford Benny Golson, Street Life composed by “The Crusanders” and performed by singer Randy Crawford and Mas Que Nada by Sergio Mendez.
The choir of the ‘Pitagora-Benedetto Croce’ high school in Torre Annunziata has on the program H. Purcell with Thou knowest Lord, G. Fauré with Benedictus and WA Mozart with Ave verum corpus. The ‘Bruno Munari’ high school in Acerra will offer the public Treasure and Uptown funk by Bruno Mars and Grande amore rock by Il Volo. The Isis ‘Girolamo Albertini’ Symphony Orchestra of Nola chose Donizetti’s Elisir d’amore with Quanto è bella and Duetto, Rameau with Les sauvages and Bizet with Habanera. Grand finale with the Isis ‘Giuseppe Moscati’ wind orchestra of Sant’Antimo with the Concerto d’Amore by Jacob De Haan and A Fistful of Dollars by Ennio Morricone.
At the Archaeological Park of Ercolano (Maiuri Park), however, the notes will begin to resonate starting from 7.30 pm. The musical high schools ‘Pitagora-Benedetto Croce’ of Torre Annunziata, ‘Bruno Munari’ of Acerra and ‘Francesco Severi’ of Castellammare di Stabia will perform in chamber and ensemble groups.
The ‘Severi’ will be present with the seven-guitar ensemble that will perform Aria dall’Armida al campo d’Egypt, Concerto in D major by Vivaldi, Canarios by Gaspar Sanz and Anonimo with Quando nascette Ninno and the Flute and Harp Duo with a repertoire of G. Bizet – Menuet, G. Donizetti – Largo and B. Andres – Algues. The ‘Pitagora – Croce’ with the Guitar Quartet will perform Morreno Torroba in Bailando un Fandango Charro and C. Domeniconi with A las doce de la noche (Suite: A las doce de la noche. Canção de natal. Fum, Fum, Fum. Corramos, Corramos). Finally, the “Munari” high school will perform with the Horn Duo which will perform the Te Deum by Marc-Antoine Charpentier and the Minuet by Johann Sebastian Bach.
“As a Metropolitan City we strongly support this appointment – stated Ilaria Abagnale, metropolitan councilor delegated for Planning and School Buildings for the Vesuvian, Sorrento, Nolana and Phlegraean areas – also through an important economic commitment so that the conditions are created to allow the students to best express their talent, to be listened to and appreciated for their skills and competences acquired over the years of school education. The wish I would like to address to them is to be able to make their instruments vibrate throughout their lives with a profitable introduction to the world of music and art, always following their own inclinations and creativity.”
“I am particularly pleased to be present at an event with great educational-cultural value that the Metropolitan City of Naples has been carrying out for several years now – added the metropolitan councilor delegated to the School for Naples and the northern area, Marianna Salierno – and which makes the protagonists are the students of our musical and dance high schools. The orchestra is the small paradigm of society, learning to play in an orchestra, knowing how to listen to other people’s tempos teaches respect for the rules and is a joyful way of training the citizens of the future”.
Thus the cultural narrative of the MAV/the Virtual Archaeological Museum of Herculaneum continues in beauty and inclusion which, a few hundred meters from the archaeological excavations of the ancient Herculaneum, represents a center of culture and technology applied to cultural heritage and communication among the most cutting-edge in Italy, thanks to the technological magic of the latest version MAV 5.0 – Virtual multiReality, the most advanced ever which, since October 2019, has radically revolutionized the way of living the cognitive experience of the virtual journey in life and in the splendor of the main archaeological areas of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Baia, Stabia and Capri, to better understand their past and beauty, in a preparatory journey to visiting the archaeological sites en plein air of the Campania region.
The use of the MAV museum, thanks to the initiative “The MAV exclusively for you”, through dedicated booking, can always take place exclusively for organized groups of up to 20 people, at a special entry cost, from Tuesday to Sunday, with the sole recommendation to stagger visits every hour.
The area open to the public will be the museum itinerary, the room for watching the 3D film on the eruption of Vesuvius and the holographic installation of the digital Siren.
MAV opening days and times:
The Museum will be open from Monday to Sunday from 10.00 to 18.00 (last entry).
You can make a reservation and purchase the ticket online at this link: https://www.museomav.it/prodotti/ticket-mav/
Entrance ticket cost Euro 11.00 adult
Entrance ticket cost Euro 9.00 up to 13 years, over 65, teachers
Free entry for children up to 5 years of age
For all information on the access plan to the museum you can consult the page at the link: https://www.museomav.it/piano-di-accesso/
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