On Saturday 15 July the spaces of the Palazzo Braschi Museum of Rome will come back to life with the new cultural events of the evening enclosed in the title Connections to the museum. Contemporary music and sounds of the ancient Indian tradition, created in collaboration with the Music Foundation for Rome and the Indian Embassy. The first of a series of appointments that will see artistic expressions of different cultures interact in the museum, even those distant in time and space, thanks to the collaboration with some foreign cultural institutions present in the city. Next week it will be the turn of a quartet of Israeli jazz musicians who will take turns in the evening with the musicians of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
The symbolic cost of one euro will allow the public to admire the charm of the halls of the Palace and its permanent works from 20pm to midnight (last admission at 24pm). You will be able to walk along the splendid main staircase, wander around the floors that make up the building, appreciating the recently inaugurated rearrangement and the Piranesi exhibition. The factory of utopia.
The collaboration with the Fondazione Musica per Roma will bring the PMCE – Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble to the stage, which will offer a repertoire of original and important pieces of contemporary music. From the courtyard up to the third floor of the building, the instruments of Lucio Perotti (piano), Luca Nostro (electric guitar), Massimo Ceccarelli (electric bass, double bass) and Massimo Di Cristofaro (percussions) will provide the soundtrack to the visitors' artistic experience . In the entrance courtyard there will also be a suggestive performance by the Indian duo made up of Ustad Sageer Khan – master of the sitar, a traditional 19-string lute – and the famous percussionist Rashmi V. Bhatt on the tabla, typical Indian percussion. The show The world of Raga, organized in collaboration with the Embassy of India, will try to introduce the public to the classical Indian musical culture through the sounds of distant instruments.
The weekend of music will end on Sunday 16 July with two concerts in small museums with free admission. At the Museum of the Walls jazz will enrich the visit with the session of the Low Brass Trio scheduled for 11.30 in collaboration with MuSa Jazz – Sapienza University of Rome while at the Napoleonic Museum classical music will frame the elegant rooms on the ground floor of Palazzo Primoli with the concert program Vienna between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Roma Tre Orchestra.
The initiatives are promoted by Roma Capitale, Department of Cultural Growth - Capitolina Superintendency for Cultural Heritage with the organization of Zètema Progetto Cultura. The programming is the result of collaboration with important cultural institutions of the city such as: Casa del Jazz, Fondazione Musica per Roma, Teatro di Roma, Fondazione Teatro dell'Opera, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and with the Orchestras of Roma Tre University and Sapienza University From Rome.
PROGRAM
Saturday July 15th
PALAZZO BRASCHI MUSEUM OF ROME
“Connections to the museum: contemporary music and sounds of the ancient Indian tradition in the halls of Palazzo Braschi”
In collaboration with the Musica per Roma Foundation and the Indian Embassy
PMCE – Park of Contemporary Music Ensemble
With: Lucio Perotti (piano), Luca Nostro (electric guitar), Massimo Ceccarelli (electric bass, double bass), Massimo Di Cristofaro (percussion)
The Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble will present a selection of pieces by contemporary composers and original works by the musicians who make up the ensemble. Pieces that will see the four musicians together in a contemporary chamber formation and refined solo performances will alternate.
Courtyard (FREE ADMISSION) | 20.45 pm
Lucio Perotti Piano Solo
John Adams-Phrygian Gates
Courtyard (FREE ADMISSION) | 21.00 and 23.10
PMCE Ensemble
Lucio Perotti – Ice Cocaine and…
Lucio Perotti – Rainbows
Our Luke – Ulrich
Lucio Perotti – Aware
Hall II Floor | 22.15 pm
Luca Nostro (electric guitar and tape)
Steve Reich – Electric Counterpoint
David Lang-Warmth
III Floor | 22.45 pm
Massimo Ceccarelli (double bass and electric bass)
Tom Johnson-Failing
Massimo Ceccarelli – Music without future
The World of Ragas
Courtyard (FREE ENTRY) | 20.15 and 21.45
Featuring: Ustad Sageer Khan, Rashmi V. Bhatt
Sitar Master Ustad Sageer Khan, disciple and son of the great M° Munir Khan together with the famous percussionist Rashmi V. Bhatt, will present the classical music of North India performed with the typical Indian instruments: the Sitar, 19-string lute and the Tabla , the typical local percussion. After numerous collaborations with western artists such as Stevie Wonder, Stockhausen, Shakira, Sting, the Indian duo will arrive at the Palazzo Braschi Museum of Rome to convey the complexity of their musical tradition and present to the public one of the two classical music systems existing in India : the repertoire of North Indian Classical Music. This system is based on the millenary aesthetic concept of RAGA, an ideal architecture which is the basis of all forms of artistic expression: painting, theatre, dance, poetry.
Sunday July 16 11.30 hours
MUSEUM OF THE WALLS
“Low Brass Trio”
In collaboration with MuSa Jazz – edited by Sapienza University of Rome
Programme: Resonances. Original arrangements of modern and classical music
With: Gabriele Cavallari (tuba), Palmiro Del Brocco (trombone) Claudio Zenobio (horn)
Sunday July 16 16.00 hours
NAPOLEONIC MUSEUM
“Vienna between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries”
In collaboration with Roma Tre Orchestra
Programme: G. Rossini: Introduction, theme and variations, L. v. Beethoven: Six bagatelles op. 126, WA Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major K 622
With: Gianmarco Corinto (clarinet), Michele Tozzetti (piano)
PROMOTION "THE ARCA AS IT WAS"
The special promotion for “L'Ara com'era” will continue, scheduled for Friday and Saturday evenings at the Ara Pacis Museum. A reduced admission ticket can be purchased by presenting the stamped ticket for the weekend entertainment events in the Municipal Museums (the promotion is valid for the current weekend or the following one, subject to availability). "L'Ara com'era" is the first systematic enhancement in augmented and virtual reality of one of the most important masterpieces of Roman art, which has become even more immersive and engaging. Thanks to two new Virtual Reality points of interest, which combine live film footage, 3D reconstructions and computer graphics, it is possible to immerse yourself in the ancient northern Campus Martius and witness the first virtual reality reconstruction of a Roman sacrifice.
SUNDAY JULY 16 | Free concerts
Museum of the Walls | 11.30 am – “Low Brass Trio” in collaboration with MuSa Jazz, organized by Sapienza University of Rome
Napoleonic Museum | 16.00 pm – “Vienna between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries” in collaboration with Roma Tre Orchestra
