Tale concert in Piazza Aldo Moro on 8 September 2022 with Massimiliano Gallo.
The theme addressed is that of music as an expression of freedom and escape from everyday life in times of war.
An original informative historical narrative show that will be interpreted by a very talented actor: Massimiliano Gallo.
The text will provide a reading of the historical context in a fictionalized key using literary passages, testimonies and texts written for the occasion.
The musical part will make use of the collaboration of the Martucci Conservatory of Salerno which will take care of the execution of the pieces. The first part of the show, as mentioned above, will be dedicated to Jazz and the Jazz music section of the Conservatory, directed by Maestro Deidda, will play classic Swing and Jazz.
In the second part, instead, the choir of Martucci will color the historical narration with the music performed in the Ferramonti field.
The aim of the evening is to offer, to the widest possible audience, an event that combines spectacular elements, able to involve heterogeneous bands of spectators and, at the same time, a scientifically correct historical narrative.
It is a show that is inspired by the narrative mode called “History Telling” which offers different arts at the service of the historical story within a multidisciplinary project, a project aimed at creating a lesson / show, able to involve the public on issues otherwise not easy to interest.
With the landing in 1943, the musicians who flock to the ranks of the US army also arrive and in fact, together with the troops, Jazz arrives again in Italy.
The Avalanche operation also frees the Ferramonti di Tarsia camp, the largest fascist concentration camp in which, since 1941, non-Italian Jews present in Italy after the outbreak of the war, political prisoners and non-Jewish prisoners of the nations occupied by the Italians.
Many high-level musicians were imprisoned in that camp who used music as a tool to alleviate the harshness of detention, eventually forming choirs and an orchestra that held several concerts. Music was a virtual escape for them and the arrival of the British made their music really free.