The Philharmonic Orchestra of UV, the Valencian Orfeón Universitario and Lluís Vich Vocalis chorus star this Wednesday 29 and Thursday 30, at 10.30pm, the schedule of the festival ‘Serenates’ at the Cloister of La Nau.
The three bands will get back Victorian English composer Albert Ketèlbey’s music to offer “an audiovisual concert-show” titled ‘The seventh stop: musical travel between cultures in 7 movements’, according to musical director, Hilari Garcia and artistic director, Tono Berti.
Nearly 100 musicians and 6 video artists’ works will be shown in a 16x3 screen installed on the northern façade of the Cloister, and they will bring Ketèlbey’s music back in an innovative staging to reflect on cultural distance between countries. The first stop of this journey around the world will be United Kingdom, to be followed by seven more destinations (Austria, Egypt, Iran, China, Mongolia and Hawaii) through the audiovisual and musical connection.
The journey metaphor is also appropiate for honour musicians who, throughout the last 20 years, have been part of the Philharmonic Orchestra of UV, which is celebrating its anniversary this year. More than a thousand young people have taken part of this experience and some of them are currently members of orchestras around the world. The vital journey which young musicians also undertake, for the sake of music.
Tickets can be purchased in http://www.latenda.es/entrades. All profits will be donates to La Pau Casal. More information can be found here: www.uv.es/cultura
After the concert-show in the next days, ‘Serenates’ will continue on 1 July, the Valencian band Estil Concertant, specializing in the performance of baroque music and classical European music, will present a programme with arias by Mozart and Martín i Soler, sang by the soprano Maribel Monar.
The protagonist of the 2 July will be a young chorister, Leioa Kantika Korala from Basque Country, under the direction of Basilio Astulez, one of the most important figures of musical pedagogy in Spain.
On 3 July, Orfeó Universitari de València, will present for the first time “Ad urbe condita” by Ramon Pastor and “Eroticitats” by Pau de Luis; both are natives of Valencia and have been resident composers of the grouping in 2015 and 2016, respectively.
On 4 July, the Generalitat Valenciana chorus, directed by Francesc Perales, will present the programme “Poesia al cor: del Tirant a la generació del 27” with love poems set to music.
On 5 July, the virtuoso violinist Jordi Savall will perform “La reveuse” with works by Marin Marais and by Mr. de Sainte-Colombe.
On 6 July, the Valencia Orchestra will give a charity concert in which the participation of young musicians will be key. This concert is co-produced by Palau de la Música and is under the general direction of José Sanchís.
On 7 July, Colectivo Mortero, formed by Paula Miralles, Esther Vidal and Pilar Parreño, will put on a show called “La pell possible”. It is an interdisciplinary project of music, poetry, theatre and art which joins voices of poets such as Ausiàs March, Vicent Andrés Estellés, Marc Granell, Manuel Asensi, Begonya Pozo and Lola Andrés. This concert is co-produced with Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua (AVL).
Starting on the 8 July, there will be concerts dedicated to “Música popular i les Serenates” the setting of which will be different: they will take place at Patriarca Square. These concert are performed as part of the “July Festival” organized by the Valencia city council.
The first of these concerts will take place on the 8th, and will feature the Tornejants and la Muixeranga de Algemesí. The dance and music show will start in the cloister and will later move toward the square where it will finish. La Muixeranga was declared by UNESCO to be Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2011, and it is considered to be the best way to connect “Serenate” to its popular culture characteristics.
On 9 July, Urbàlia Rurana and Romántica del Saladar will perform in concert called “La vespra i la festa”. Two of Valencia’s most emblematic bands come together to play all possible styles in the eve of the town celebrations: pasacalles, waltzes, jotas, pasadobles, folk dances and various kinds of folk songs.
On 10 July, la Joven Banda Sinfónica de la Federación de Sociedades Musicales de la Comunitat Valenciana (FSMCV), under the direction of Pablo Marcara, joins the singer Pep el Botifarra in the concert “Botifarra a banda” with arrangements for voice and folk music.
The festival ‘Serenates’ has being taken place since 1984 coproduced by the Universitat de València and the Musical Sub-Division of CulturArts. It has counted on the collaboration of Valencian City Hall, the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, the Higher Education College of Art and Design of Valencia, Bancaja Foundation, Banco Sabadell Foundation and Heineken Spain.
What is new about 2016 edition is the co-production of ‘Serenates’ with the ‘Feria de Julio’ [July Fair] (thanks to the collaboration with the Festival and Popular Culture Department of Valencia City) consisting of three concerts of a popular nature taking place in Patriarca Square (between the 8th and the 10th July).
Last update: 29 de june de 2016 08:50.
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