Tonight 25 August Feast of San Gennaro Volunteers Meeting in LA

August 25, 2008 · Filed Under Events · Comment

Yes, that’s right. This very evening.

Kathleen Warner has contacted me to let me know that if you would like to volunteer to help out with the Feast of San Gennaro, then go along to the meeting at (and say Kathleen Warner and Blog from Italy sent you!):

Christ the King Church
624 N. Rossmore Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90004
from 7:00pm-9:00pm

Don’t worry if you can’t make it to this meet up, because there are two more on:

Monday, September 8th, 2008 and
Monday, September 15th, both in the same location mentioned above.

I’m sure you’ll be made very welcome. The San Gennaro Feast is for all the family and is a fund raising event organised by the The San Gennaro Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to helping out children and families in need in the LA area.

If you would like to know more about the main event, then read on. Read more

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Milano Jazzin’ Festival

July 7, 2008 · Filed Under Events · 2 Comments

From the 7 July (today) until the 7 August 2008, in Milan’s Arena Civica, the Milano Jazzin Festival is to be held. Some big names are going to be there. Here is a list of some, along with the dates on which they can be seen in action:

July 14 - Lenny Kravitz
July 16 - Pat Metheny
July 26 - REM
July 28 - Paul Simon

For a complete list of the acts appearing, and there are plenty, this page from the Milano Jazzin’ Festival site will help you: Milano Jazzin’ Festival

To start things off, this evening there is Justice and LN Ripley, but the event has been sold out!

Anyway, there are plenty more acts to see, and you should be able to check ticket availability by visiting this site:

TicketOne.it (sorry, but I could not get the English version to work) or ring 02 6269 4720 - if you can speak Italian, although they might well speak English too.

Click: Milan - Arena - to see where the venue is on my Platial map.

Concerts begin at 9:30. Have fun!

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soundSCAPE 2008, Pavia

June 20, 2008 · Filed Under Events · Comment

One Bob Schneider, who runs Guitar Plus International, an organisation dedicated to promoting the use of guitar in chamber music, kindly wrote to me recently, mentioning something called soundScape, and said he liked this blog.

“soundSCAPE? What’s soundSCAPE (…and why is it written in a funny way?)”, I asked myself, and headed on over to the soundSCAPE Pavia website to find out.

Well, soundSCAPE is a festival all about promoting new music. It all started down in Tuscany as the Cortona Contemporary Music Festival, but now the soundSCAPE event has taken on a life of its own.

In the words of the festival’s organisers:

The 2008 festival offers performance studies and composition opportunities in flute, guitar, mandolin, piano, percussion, violin, and voice.The music of emerging composers is featured in open rehearsals, the Composition Colloquium, and in recorded performances. In turn, performers receive coaching from composers, complementing instruction in modern performance techniques from an internationally renowned faculty.

If this type of musical experience takes your fancy, then you might like to drop into the soundScape Music festival which is to be held in Pavia from the 15 to the 25 July this year. Pavia is, incidentally, only about 20 minutes from Milan by train.

To find out more, and to ask where the rehearsals and performances will be held, visit the website or write to: newmusic@soundscape-pavia.com

Also, visit the Grammy Award nominated Duo 46 website, and turn on the sound, to hear examples of the kind of music that will be featured at the soundScape Pavia event. Duo 46 is an original coupling of violin and guitar, and while putting these two instruments together may sound a little odd at first, the combination produces some lovely results. Pop over, have a listen and see what you think.

Should you wish to brush up your own musical skills, then various courses will be held during the event too. If I can find the time, I might well pay the festival a visit, camera in hand, of course.

Actually, there is a musical genre is known as soundscape, and there is even a Wikipedia entry on the subject, but the soundSCAPE festival, and its music, do not appear to be related.

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