Istituto: Institute of Music

The series of musical videos at Palazzo Cini continues in the month of June with more sessions for rare-music lovers. On June 7, the silent film Die Bergkatze by Ernst Lubitsch,1921 will be broadcast; on Saturday June 14, visitors will watch El niŠ‹o, a film-opera by John Adams, based on a libretto by Adams and Peter Sellars, 2000. The third June date, on the 21, features an Italian musical film: Prova d’orchestra by Federico Fellini, with music by Nino Rota, 1979. The last June date with the video-musical series will be on June 28, with Jim Sharman’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a cult classic and a midnight movie.Free entrance.

The series of musical videos at Palazzo Cini continues in the month of June with more sessions for rare-music lovers. On Saturday June 14, visitors will watch El niŠ‹o, a film-opera by John Adams, based on a libretto by Adams and Peter Sellars, 2000. The third June date, on the 21, features an Italian musical film: Prova d’orchestra by Federico Fellini, with music by Nino Rota, 1979. The last June date with the video-musical series will be on June 28, with Jim Sharman’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a cult classic and a midnight movie.Free entrance.

Venice, Palazzo Cini at San Vio
14 June 2008, 17.00

Contacts:
Istituto per la Musica
tel. +39 041 2710220
e-mail: musica@cini.it

The last film and music May date in the “The Ludwig Van Picture Show” series features Pas sur la bouche by Alain Resnais. From a frivolous “hyper-Parisian” musical comedy, Resnais makes one of his most ethereal, carefree films. In this purposefully stilted pure stage work on film the poetic complexity is inversely proportional to the straightforwardness of the text. Resnais’s film is no re-interpretation or just another re-staging, but a thoroughly re-created production aimed at resuscitating the dead, or resurrecting the spirit of Paris in the 1920s, by now well and truly forgotten. Resnais’ own screenplay is based on the operetta by André Barde and Maurice Yvain.
Free entrance

The fourth May date at the Palazzo Cini will be dedicated to Jardins en automne, a film by Otar Iosseliani starring Severine Blanchet, Lily Lavinia and the director himself.
The film – and here we come to the reason for its inclusion in this series – has no narrative but is an unfolding of musical forms whose underlying raison d’etre is to inform the visual representation of a cluster of events organised in a tightly woven time frame.
Nicholas Zourabichvili’s music “appears” throughout the film, accompanying the images with descriptive pieces, allegros from sonatas, antiphonies, at times gracefully dizzy with boozy inebriation, fanciful rondos, variations with or without themes, two-theme fugues, more or less complete developments, infinite recapitulations and returns to earlier themes.
Free entrance

Third up in the month of May in the music and film series “The Ludwig Van Picture Show” is Cotton Club, a film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel with the same title by James Haskins,.
According to film critic Franco La Polla, “On one hand Cotton Club is a film deliberately ‘over the top’, a work built up through a continuous series of traditional cinema references, and, on the other, cinema that ‘fills a gap’, since – albeit bound by the limits of the objective concrete impossibility of resuscitating the past – it really does bring back to the stage showbiz and notorious faces and names in an attempt to drastically reduce the unbridgeable historical distance which other films set in the past (that particular past) had tackled by relying on less direct and more allusive conventions.”
With Diane Lane, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins and Nicolas Cage, music by John Barry.
Free entrance

The second May date for music and films at the Palazzo Cini at San Vio features Marie Galante, a film by Henry King based on a novel and a play by Jaques Deval, with Spencer Tracy, Ketti Gallina and Helen Morgan.
In terms of genre this film has a bit of everything: it is basically melodrama but sways between thriller, gangster film, dagger-and-cloak, and detective story, all sauced up as a musical because of the very obtrusive soundtrack, mainly inspired by seedy night clubs.
The overall production was also a successful attempt to launch Ketti Gallina as a diva and kick-start the career of a very youthful Spencer Tracy.
Free entrance

Marta Moretto, mezzosoprano
Aldo Orvieto, pianoforte

Programme

Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Quattro liriche (1920) from Poema paradisiaco by Gabriele D’Annunzio (1892)
Un sogno – La naiade – La sera – Sopra un’aria antica

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Wesendonck-Lieder (1857) texts by Mathilde Wesendonck
Der Engel – Stehe still! – Im Treibhaus – Schmerzen – Träume

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Lieder nach Heinrich Heine (aus „Schwanengesang“ D957, 1828)
Das Fischermädchen – Am Meer – Ihr Bild – Die Stadt – Der Doppelgänger – Der Atlas

Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Il Tramonto (1914) poemetto lirico from Percy Bysshe Shelley (1814), translated by Roberto Ascoli.

Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
30 May  2007, 17.30

Information
Institute of Music
tel. +39 041 2710220 (9.00 -13.00)
fax +39 041 2710215
e-mail: musica@cini.it

Debora Petrina, piano and voice

«Cantabile visibile»

Mauro Montalbetti (1969), Out of the ash  for piano and voice performer
on fragment by Sylvia Plath (2007) (world première)

Nino Rota (1911-), Suite from Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (1976)
Songs for the stage music for Arialda by G. Testori (1960)

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Adagietto from Symphony n°5
Transcription for piano by Camillo Togni (1973) (world première)

Giovanni Mancuso (1970), Songbook, 12 studies for pianist-voice-dancer-actress with texts freely adapted from songs by Frank Zappa  (2007) (world première)

San Francisco, Italian Cultural Institute
19 April 2007

Information
Institute of Music
tel. +39 041 2710220 (9.00 -13.00)
fax +39 041 2710215
e-mail: musica@cini.it

The last video-musical appointment of the month at Palazzo Cini at San Vio will be Le Mozart noir, by Canadian filmmaker Raymond Sain Jean.
The film is focused on the life of an important musician, ignored by music history because of an apparent racial prejudice. Joseph Boulogne, also known as Chevalier de Saint-George, was a Caribbean violinist, fencer and athlete, revolutionary in his spare time, who had a huge success in Paris of that time.
Born on Christmas day, 1745 in Guadalupa, son of a slave and a French man, Boulogne lived intensely and ended his life with a military performance, as a general of a revolutionary army of a thousand black men.
In this film, his authentic biography merges with fiction, brilliant musical exhibitions and interviews to musicologists.
Free entrance

Venice, Palazzo Cini at San Vio
26 April 2008, 17.00

Information
Institute of Music
tel. +39 041 2710220
e-mail: musica@cini.it

The third April date in the video-musical series The Ludwig Van Picture Show will be dedicated to Super 8 Stories, a film by Emir Kusturica, worldwide known filmmaker.
Kusturica was born as a musician, and this is his autobiography, about himself and the adventures of his famous band, The No Smoking Orchestra, founded in Sarajevo in 1980, often censored because of their "politcally uncorrect" lyrics according to the regime. Even though it has always been contrasted, The No Smoking Orchestra survived all the former Yugoslavian Republic tragedies.
This is a warm retrospective of music moments, solo exhibitions by the band members, domestic sketch, brides, gypsies, animals: a nice musical film, on music.
Free entrance.

Venice, Palazzo Cini at San Vio
19 April 2008, 17.00

Information
Institute of Music
tel. +39 041 2710220
e-mail: musica@cini.it