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CHARLES E. IVES
1874 – 1954
Songs
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Lorna Windsor - soprano
Antonio Ballista - piano
Presentation
The program is a kind of collage where all the images that belong to the varied world of New England
get together: a cocktail of road songs, sentimental ballades, national anthem, songs of cowboys,
Victorian romances and music for bands, in a picturesque succession of nostalgic tradition and
irresistible pulse to provocation.
Program
First part
Second part
At the River
The new river
Walking
Maple leaves
Side show
Serenity
The things our fathers loved
Evening
The Swimmer
A Children’s carol
West London
Circus Band
Mirage
There is a lane
Children’s hour
Afterglow
Duty
Charlie Rutledge
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GO TO HOLLYWOOD
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Lorna Windsor – soprano
Antonio Ballista – piano
Program
KANDER
Cabaret
And all that jazz
ARLEN
Somewhere over the rainbow
BERLIN
Puttin’ on the Ritz
JOPLIN
The entertainer – solace – maple Leaf Rag
KERN
Can’t help lovin dat men
Smoke gets in your eyes
KANDER
When you’re good to Mama
***
PIAZZOLLA
Adios Nonino
PORTER
So in love
My heart belongs to Daddy
Find me a primitive man
Why can’t you behave
Too darn hot!
GERSHWIN
The man I love
Someone to watch over me
‘S wonderful
Summertime
I got rhyhtm
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HAPPY CHRISTMAS – WAR IS OVER
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Framed by two of the most famous Bach chorals, this program about Christmas develops in a
multiplicity of ways: from presbyterian naïveté of Warlock and Ives songs, to Crumb’s brilliant music
transpositions of Giotto fresco paintings at the Cappella degli Scrovegni in Padua; from Rilke
symbolism set to music by Hindemith, to the color evocations from catholic liturgy by Messiaen, to
three undeniable jewels concerning Nativity by Ravel, Fauré and Debussy.
The program includes also some pop masterpieces by Styne and Berlin, as well as the wonderful and
touching “Happy Christmas” by Lennon.
Program
J.S.BACH
NADAU BAPTISTA
PETER WARLOCK
CHARLES IVES
G.CRUMB
JULES STYNE
IRVING BERLIN
J.LENNON & Y.ONO
(MYRA HESS) BWV 147 “Jesus bleibet unser Freude” *
(Occitan song)
Balulalow
The first mercy
A Christmas carol
from “Little Suite for Christmas A.D.1979”:
Adoration of the Magi
Nativity Dance
Carol of the bells *
Let it snow
White Christmas
Happy Christmas (War is over)
***
BACH – BUSONI
PAUL HINDEMITH
OLIVIER MESSIAEN
RAVEL
FAURE
DEBUSSY
Preludio-chorale “Nun komm der Heiden Heiland” *
from “Das Marienleben”: Geburt Mariä, Von der Hochzeit zu Kana
“Je dors, mais mon cœur veille”
(Ce n’est pas d’ un ange l’ archet qui sourit, - c’est Jesus dormant qui
nous aime dans son Dimanche et nous donne l’ oubli..) *
Noël des jouets
Noël
Noël des enfants qui n’ont plus de maison
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HARAWI
« Chant d’amour et de mort »
(1945)
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“HARAWI” (1945) for soprano and piano is the masterpiece by Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992),
certainly the most spiritual composer in the XXth Century.
HARAWI is an Indian-American word that means song of love and death. The composer finds in Peru
the poetic images, the phonemes, the onomatopoeias that allow him to create an imaginary language.
He pulls out from folklore not only melodic profiles, but first of all a charming tone that hypnotizes
every kind of public. Among the twelve poems whose Harawi is composed, the most impressive are the
third (Repetition planetaire), an astonishing and powerful cosmic picture, and the ninth (L’Escalier
redit, gestes du soleil), the portrait of an infinite happiness in the beyond, a kind of musical
hallucination of striking vehemence.
Program
La ville qui dormait
Bonjour toi, colombe verte
Montagnes/Doundou tchil
L’amour de Piroutcha
Répétition planetaire
Adieu/Syllabes
L’escalier redit, gestes du soleil
Amour oiseau d’étoile
Katchikatchi les étoiles/ Dans le noir
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PAUL HINDEMITH
(1895-1963)
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Lorna Windsor - soprano
Antonio Ballista - piano
Presentation
Das Marienleben, that is the life of Christ through the eyes of Mary, the mother, the women.
The history of Christianity undergoes a revolution of perspective that the persuasive elegance of the
Rilke’s verses try in vain to reduce. The figure of the Saviour is rejected on the background, refined and
remote icon. No more the Goddess who embodies himself for the universal redemption but, on the
contrary, the human all too human, a fragile body of a woman made inactive instrument of a suffering
destiny that transcends and ignore it.
There is no redemption for Mary’s pain who attends the sacrifice of the Son: aimless and no-fault
sorrow that the expiation of Christ doesn’t sublime, but it goes under a blind abyss of loneliness. And
even if at the end there is a catharsis (Death of Mary I, II, III), this will not happen for divine grace but it
will be the arrival point of a long walk of resignation that transforms in a mystic way the love for a man
in universal compassion.
The cycle of Rilke is on 1912, at the beginning of the stay in Duino. The composition of Hindemith is on
1992/23. The Omnipresent theme is the woman – almost an obsession in the Central European culture
of the first decade of XX Century. And, on closer view, we can see a subtle connection between the mystic
Marienleben and the profane Sancta Susanna where Christ is represented as a gelid and impassive
effigy: facing the sorrow of Mary as the erotic delirium of the nun.
On October 1923, the first execution of the new cycle of lyric poems astonished the public of Frankfurt.
At the end of the thirty, in the United States, Hindemith has a hand in the review of some Lieder and, in
1948 he realize a new version of the whole cycle, in place of the first one.
Despite Hindemith’s intentions, the new version never replace the first and both live together as
possible alternatives.
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Program
Paul Hindemith
(1895-1963)
Das Marienleben op. 27
from texts by Rainer Maria Rilke
second version (1948)
Geburt Mariä
Die Darstellung Mariä im Tempel
Mariä Verkündigung
Mariä Heimsuchung
***
Argwohn Josephs
Verkündigung über den Hirten
Geburt Christi
Rast auf der Flucht in Ägypten
***
Von der Hochzeit zu Kana
Vor der Passion
Pietà
Stillung Mariä mit dem Auferstandenen
***
Vom Tode Mariä I
Vom Tode Mariä II
Vom Tode Mariä III
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SOMERSAULTS
A first class cruise on the Acheron
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Lorna Windsor - soprano
Antonio Ballista - piano
texts by:
Davide Tortorella
Shirley Jackson
Woody Allen
Presentation
Angelo Branduardi, Gustav Mahler, Georg Friedrich Handel, Elio & Le Storie Tese, Charles Gounod…
which musical secret have they in common? This recital reveals it: all of them have immortalized the
death. In a way that is overwhelming, passionate, irresistible…in a single word: vital. Like acrobatic
Dante and Beatrice of the Third Millennium, Antonio Ballista and Lorna Windsor dare, in a “soirée”, to
turn the most dangerous musical somersaults, striking the most delicate note: the one who starts off
the beyond. Embarked on an unforgettable first class cruise for voice and piano on the Acheron – the
river of the netherworld – we will listen to the last famous sighs of the melodrama heroines (Carmen,
Isotta, Lulù, Aida…), we will read again the ironic Rossini’s last will, we will be moved by the
crepuscular sadness of Richard Strauss, we will tremble at the tolling of the swamped bells of Debussy,
and we will sneer with the black humor of Elio & Le Storie Tese. With a fearless electrocardiogram
between classical and pop music, between jazz and musical, these “somersaults” try to prove,
according to the medical report, that death doesn’t finish anything, or rather, the fun begins
after…Particularly if, at the encore moment, resurrection comes.
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Program
BRANDUARDI
Ballo in Fa diesis minore
HANDEL
VERDI
Morte, vieni (Riccardo Re d’ Inghilterra)
Tu che la vanità (Don Carlos)
LUCIO BATTISTI
Il tempo di morire
MAHLER
Das irdische Leben
SHOSTAKOVITCH
Ninna-Nanna
GOUNOD
Marche funèbre pour une marionette
ALLAIS
Marcia funebre per un grand’ uomo sordo
ROSSINI
Un petit train du plaisir
WEILL
Moritat
Concertato “Le ultime famose parole”: music by GEORGES BIZET, GIACOMO PUCCINI, GIUSEPPE VERDI
et ALBAN BERG
***
STRAUSS
Morgen
BELISARI-CONFORTI
Urna
COWELL
The Banshee
WEILL
Le train du ciel
DEBUSSY
La Cathédrale engloutie
JACKSON
Thriller
OFFENBACH
Je suis veuve d’ un Colonel (La vie parisienne)
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DISGUISED NOTES
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Lorna Windsor - soprano
Antonio Ballista – piano
Texts by Davide Tortorella
Presentation
What do music and disguise have in common? Antonio Ballista and Lorna Windsor will explain it, in a
musical travel that starts with a selection of pieces that talk about disguise, through musicals, operas,
operettas and popular songs. The second part of the program examines the polymorphic nature of
piano, the most changeable among the instruments; it will approach some ambiguous melodies such as
the Pachelbel's Canon and the Air on the G String of Bach, that crossed the centuries reappearing time
to time in new guises, who cannot totally hide their original identikit.
Because, after all, the notes are seven: the rest is just disguise.
I PART
R. O'BRIEN
O. STRAUSS
L. BETTI/ A. ARBASINO
J. LENNON/P. McCARTNEY
G. VERDI
J. OFFENBACH
I. ALBENIZ
N. SLOMINSKI
A. LIADOV
M. MUSORGSKI
M. DE FALLA
N. CASTIGLIONI
N. SLOMINSKI
D. MILHAUD
AUTORI VARI
Sweet Transvestite
Je ne suis pas ce que l'on pense (from “Les Trois Valses”)
Seguendo la flotta
Polythene Pam
Saper vorreste di che si veste (from “Un Ballo in Maschera”)
Fly duet (from “Orphée aux Enfers”)
Asturias
Drehorgel (una grottesca scordatura)
Une tabatière à musique (Valse badinage)
The Great gate of Kiev
Ritual Fire Dance
La Fontanella di Ganna
Ghiaccio sul Rosengarten
Radice quadrata della Sinfonia n.5 di BEETHOVEN
Tango des fratellini
Variations from “Il Bel Castello''
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II PART
MOZART
S. VARTAN
Simphony n. 40 in G minor
Dear Mozart
J. PACHELBEL
APHRODITE'S CHILD
MICHEL SARDOU
VILLAGE PEOPLE
OASIS
JOVANOTTI
V. BELLINI
SMETANA
C. CASELLI
L. VAN BEETHOVEN
Canon
Rain and tears
La Maladie d' amour
Go West
So Sally can wait
A Te
Fenesta che lucive
from “Ma Vlast” : La Moldava
Nessuno mi può giudicare
Extract from First Concert in Primo Concerto in C major, Op.15 for
piano and orchestra
'Tico Tico
Rêverie
My reverie
Air on the G String
Everything's gonna be alright –
A Chloris
Once upon a dream from “The Sleeping Beauty”
Extract from the third movement of the third Symphony in F+,
Op.90
Love of my life
Moritat
ZEQUINA DA ABREU
C. DEBUSSY
L. CLINTON
J.S. BACH
SWEETBOX
R. HAHN
I.P. TCHAIKOVSKI /W. DISNEY
J. BRAHMS
SANTANA
WEILL
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YOU’RE THE TOP
Homage to Cole Porter
(selection, new versions and instrumentation by Alessandro Lucchetti)
Antonio Ballista - conductor
Lorna Windsor - soprano
Marco Beasley - tenor
Alessandro Lucchetti - piano
Presentation
Not only blues, jazz, musical; country, cajun and café chantant; but also Chopin, Brahms, Bizet and even
Ives. We can find all these influences inside the very huge work of Cole Porter (we are talking about
900 pieces more or less). My dream was to highlight this unbelievable abundance of inspirations that
feature his production. This conditioned both the selection of songs and the orchestration, that recalls,
from time to time, the jazz quartet or the chamber ensemble, the music hall little orchestra or the big
band, or the folk group. The program includes music for orchestra too, like the new version of Another
opening, another show, who portrays the slow marching of a citizens band accompanied by majorettes.
The selection of songs required some painful exclusions in order not to exceed in the duration of the
concert. Twenty-five songs are gathered in six fantasies who reminds the paraphrases of operas made
by Liszt and also a medley of songs, both of these genres equally represented.
Three of the fantasies are dedicated to three famous musicals: Can Can, Anything Goes and Kiss Me
Kate. The others include songs whose lyrics depict love in all its aspects: the idealized love (dreamed,
yearned or triumphant); the tormented love (obsessive, conflicting, or recalled); and the transgressive
love (carnal, made of an eccentric and uninhibited sexuality).
Alessandro Lucchetti
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Program
DREAMS OF LOVE
12
In the still of the night
You do something to me
Easy to love
CANCAN
Just one of those things
I love Paris
It’s alright with me
Let’s do it
WHAT IS LOVE?
Love for sale
Night and day
What is this thing called love?
Everytime we say goodbye
Begin the beguine
*****
“ROBA DA MATTI”
My heart belongs to Daddy
Give him the Oo la la
Kate the great
Find me a primitive man
ANYTHING GOES
It’s delovely
I get a kick out of you
You’re the top
Anything goes
KISS ME KATE
Another opening, another show
Why can’t you behave
From this moment on
So in love
Too darn hot