06/2012 - Auditorium Parco della Musica

This month at the
AUDITORIUM
JUNE
8-9/ MIT MEET IN TOWN It’s hard to imagine the sober Auditorium fill up with young clubbers dancing to electron-
ic music. But it’s happened twice before, and it will happen again this year. For the third year in a row, the Meet in
Town (MIT) festival will bring two nights of club madness to Renzo Piano’s music temple. On 8 and 9 June, the world’s
best deejays will invade every concert hall, the underground carpark, the outdoor cavea, the hallways and the exhibi-
tion spaces, proving that electronica is indeed an art. Innovative projects, video art, experimental music, meet-the-dee-
jay events, theatre and installations are just some of the events on the menu, and guests include space disco DJ
Lindstrøm, boogie funk expert Dâm Funk, synth wave manipulator Com Truise, as well as Squarepusher, James Blake,
Sébastien Tellier; Atlas Sound, Mouse On Mars, Ghostpoet, Machine drum, Brandt Brauer Frick, and many more. All
events can be followed live on www.mit.telecomitalia.com, which also has a detailed program of events.
9-13-14/ HARDING/BOLLANI Ravel has been described as one the most mysterious composers in history: his
music reveals very little of his private life, beliefs or moods. By listening to his explosive and sparkling Concerto in G,
it seems almost impossible to believe that while he was working on this very composition, he was diagnosed with
the brain disease that brought him to his death less than ten years later. Apart from a sweet and nostalgic Adagio,
Ravel’s Concerto in G is a tumultuous race between the piano and the orchestra, with a series of rhythms and colors
contaminated by jazz, a genre discovered by the composer in the USA a few years before. The Concerto has been
defined “a cultivated cousin of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue”, and will be performed by one of Italy’s best Gershwin
interpreters: Stefano Bollani, under the baton of great conductor Daniel Harding.
19-22/ LANG LANG FEST If you are one of those people who think that classical music is “stuff for old people”,
you probably don’t know Lang Lang. The 30-year-old pianist is the first Chinese pianist to have been engaged by the
top European and American orchestras. A Chicago Tribune music critic once described him as "the biggest, most exci-
ting young keyboard talent I have encountered in many a year of attending piano recitals". Lang Lang is more than
just a piano sensation. He is almost a global brand, and the piano manufacturers Steinway & Sons have dedicated a
new piano to this exceptionally talented artist. Thanks to him, 40 million Chinese kids are now studying piano, and
his blog is followed by 6 million people every day. And there’s more: his name can be found on earphones and MP3
players, he was the first pianist to perform with the Youtube orchestra, he recorded a 3D concert and he launched
an iPad application called Magic Piano. In Rome again this month, Lang Lang will be performing solo and with the
Santa Cecilia Orchestra (with Carlo Rizzari). On the third night, he will meet 100 young piano students who will get
a chance to play with one of the most acclaimed piano masters of our time.
29/ LA NOTTE DELLA TARANTA LUGLIO SUONA BENE Andalucía has flamenco, Portugal has fado, and southern
Italy has Taranta. This energetic folk music, with its accompanying dance pizzica, was born in Salento, one of the sou-
thernmost areas of mainland Italy, deep in the heel of the boot. This month, the Notte della Taranta Orchestra will be
performing on the Auditorium Parco della Musica stage, bringing together some of the finest southern Italian and inter-
national musicians, singers and dancers to interpret the hypnotic rhythms, the haunting melodies and the high emo-
tional intensity of this fascinating native dance. Ludovico Einaudi conducts 20 performers on a myriad of instruments
including drums, percussion, horn, guitar, mandolin, violin, viola, cello, organ, accordion, and voice, blending the tra-
ditional folk music with new and experimental sounds.
Auditorium Parco della Musica viale Pietro de Coubertin Rome
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