Is something strange happening with music and being seated in Garfagnana or is it just a coincidence?
A couple of weeks ago at the Goran Bregović concert at the Fortezza di Montalfonzo just above Castelnuovo Garfagnana there was some fierce polemic, an outright shouting match and even a strange request from Bregović who stopped the music at one point and asked that the audience sit down and refrain from dancing (article here) This evening it was the other side of the coin when the BargaJazz Youth Orchestra played a concert as part of the Turnaround series in the main piazza in Castelnuovo.
The traffic was stopped from entering the piazza at 8pm and the musicians mounted the stage erected in the piazza to play but the chairs for the audience which were stacked behind the stage stayed exactly there … behind the stage … leaving the audience to stand in the piazza for a 2 hour concert. The reason being ?
Well, it would appear that there was permission granted to play the concert but not to a seated audience ??
Would somebody like to check up to see if that was what really happened or is this just an urban legend?
What ever, by the close of the concert there were only 30 or so people left standing the rest had long since drifted away to other far more comfortable areas … shame as the concert was once again the usual top quality big band jazz from the BargaJazz Youth Orchestra.
Special mention must be made of the new trumpet player on the back line of the orchestra – Debora Nardini. Finally a pretty and talented face standing next to Guzzoletti.
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Click on the link below to hear the closing tune from the Orchestra with a great sax solo from Rossano Emili
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Mercoledì 13 agosto alle ore 21,15 in Piazza Umberto I la BargaJazz Youth Orchestra presenta una selezione di brani tratti dalle passate edizioni del concorso di Barga e brani del repertorio tradizionale delle Big Bands. L’Orchestra, che sarà diretta dal M° Bruno Tommaso e dagli allievi del masterclass di
direzione d’orchestra che si è tenuto in questi giorni a Barga, è composta da diciotto elementi in gran parte da giovani musicisti della lucchesia. Alle trombe Andrea Guzzoletti, Debora Nardini, Marco Tommasi e Stefano Benedetti, ai tromboni Sergio Bertellotti, Silvio Bernardi, Gabriele Tonelli e Giacomo Montanelli, ai saxes Moraldo Marcheschi, Stefano Bresciani, Renzo Telloli, Alessandro Rizzardi e Rossano Emili, al pianoforte Simone Venturi al contrabbasso Mirco Capecchi al vibrafono Giacomo Riggi alla chitarra Luca Giovacchini alla batteria Angelo FerruaIl concerto fa parte del progetto “Girando alla Tonda/Turn Around”, i concerti itineranti del BargaJazz Festival organizzati in collaborazione con la Regione la Provincia, ed i comuni del territorio. Un vero e proprio viaggio musicale alla scoperta della Garfagnana e della Provincia di Lucca, un invito a scoprire i
luoghi di particolare interesse naturalistico e storico culturale tramite l’abbinamento a un concerto di qualità . L’ingresso al concerto è gratuito