Friday, December 14th 2018, at 5.00 pm, in Matera, at Palazzo Lanfranchi [Sala Levi], there will be the presentation of the CD Nigra sum sedosa, Oratorio Mariano in eight paintings for Voce reciter, Chorus of voices, Mixed Choir, Ottoni and gables outside the field, Orchestra. Texts from the Liturgy / Music by Damiano D'Ambrosio. The CD is a production of the Fondazione Orchestra Lucana, in collaboration with the Basilicata Museum Complex. Marta Ragozzino, director of the Museum Center, Franco Lisanti and Vincenzo Perrone, respectively President and Artistic Director of the Orchestra Lucana Foundation (the latter also in the role of Execution Director) will intervene. The presentation will be by musicologist Dinko Fabris, professor of music history at the University of Basilicata. Greetings from S. E. Rev.ma Monsignor Giuseppe Antonio Caiazzo, Archbishop of the Diocese of Matera - Irsina. The author will be present.
The Marian Oratory, from which recording of the premiere was made the CD from the Farelive maternity record label, was an important step in the path of Matera - Basilicata 2019 that involved more than 200 musicians, including singers and instrumentalists.
Executed on December 10, 2016 in Matera, in the Cathedral of Maria Santissima della Bruna, the opera was revived last October 20th, with the addition of an accordion part, also in the Cathedral of Matera, on the occasion of the visit of the Madonna di Viggiano, as part of the project I Cammini - Traces of religiosity in the Diocese of Basilicata, organized by the Associazione Terra di Luce.
As M ° D'Ambrosio writes: «Nigra sum sed formosa is an Oratory that stands out from the traditional, dramatic and dramatic form, to become a cycle of frescoes with a Marian subject, a series of sound panels often inspired by famous paintings and sculptures , which tell, on the basis of biblical and liturgical texts, the existential path of Mary's life ".
The meeting will be preceded by the performance, first of all, of the version for wind quintet, harp and percussion of Il Canto dei Sassi always by Maestro D'Ambrosio, interpreted by Settimino composed by Bernardino Franchini [flute], Pietro Chieco [ oboe], Bruno Friolo [clarinet], Raffaele Marcosano [fagotto], Tiziana Malagnini [horn], Annunziata Del Popolo [harp], Ilaria Paolicelli [percussion].
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