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Among the many Vacanze a Milano events, the refined chamber music series Dialoghi stands out. Eight concerts, four in Castello Sforzesco’s Cortile della Rocchetta and four in the Bramante sacristy at Santa Maria delle Grazie. Admission is free until capacity is reached: five hundred seats at the castle and two hundred in the sacristy. Anyone wanting a guaranteed place can book with the municipal events office in via Marconi 2 during its opening hours. Tickets can be collected from 5 p.m. at the Missoni bus by the Arco della Pace.
Concerts begin at 9 p.m. In the Cortile della Rocchetta there was music yesterday, with further events tonight and on 24 and 25 August. In the sacristy, performances are on 9, 14, 16 and 20 August.
Yesterday evening, the Coinema percussion quartet performed modern music, including an avant-garde piece by J. Baboni Schilingi conducted by Wally Pituello. Tonight it is the turn of the Algerian chamber ensemble Es-Soundoussia, meaning “Gardens of Eden”, founded in 1986 to preserve and transmit classical Arab-Andalusian musical heritage.
For the Notte di San Lorenzo, Algerian popular Arab-Andalusian singer Nacer Eddine Chaouli performed on the basilica forecourt on 19 July: signs of renewed interest in African countries’ musical traditions are multiplying.
Returning to the Gardens of Eden, the association was founded by former pupils of Abderrazak Fekhardji and musicologist Sid Ahmed Serri. It includes a music school teaching singing and instruments, a specialist library and an archive rich in unpublished written and sound documents. Its twenty-two musicians and singers are between eighteen and thirty, conducted by Nourredine Saoudi.
The programme features classical Arab-Andalusian music, rooted in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Muslim Spain, transmitted orally by Arabs and Jews expelled after Granada’s fall. It has been handed down from generation to generation and centres on the nouba, which can be translated as “suite”: an instrumental and vocal composition that develops according to…
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