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Pink Songs a Duo Alterno's Project with Contemporary Music in a Female Good Mood Pink Songs A Duo Alterno's project with contemporary music in a female good mood Duo Alterno Tiziana Scandaletti soprano Riccardo Piacentini piano and foto-songs A new concert program created by Duo Alterno on the twentieth anniversary of its musical career, featuring “foto-suoni” and images connecting them to the voice-piano repertoire of the Italian contemporary composers collected over a hundred tours in fifty countries. Among the contemporary composers, there are many women composers, such as Roberta Vacca from Rome, Sonia Bo and Rossella Spinosa from Milan, Teresa Procaccini from Foggia, Marcella Pavia, born in Argentina, but living in Italy. And there are also two very amusing pieces by the unforgettable Cathy Berberian and, finally, one timeless work by John Cage for voice and closed piano, where the female presence is represented by a “beautiful widow of eighteen springs” on Joyce's texts. Four Foto-Songs recorded by the Duo Alterno across the world and “com-posed” by Riccardo are merged in the concert program through a precise fil rouge: they come from different metropolitan streets of the world, with a lot of female voices, from Melbourne and Istanbul (nocturnal sounds and didgeridoo), from Addis Abeba and São Paulo do Brasil (children), from San Francisco and Portland (cable cars and tin drums), from Beijing and Bangkok (buskers and popular markets)... all in a musically stunning reportage of soundscapes caught in five continents. Roberta Vacca Versi di gatti (2003, vers. 2018) for mewing voice and piano (text freely extracted from “La gatomaquia” by Lope de Vega) Dedicated to the Duo Alterno Cathy Berberian Morsicathy (1969) for piano, morse code and mosquito Stripsody (1966) for voice and comic strips by Roberto Zamarin Riccardo Piacentini (1958) FOTO-SONGS from the streets of the world (2011/16) - Foto-song 1. Nocturnal sounds from Melbourne, and a didgeridoo in Istanbul center - Foto-song 2. Children in Addis Abeba and in São Paulo do Brasil for videoprojections and “foto-suoni” recorded and com-posed by the Duo Alterno Sonia Bo (1961) Per umbram (1999) for piano and images by Henri Cartier-Bresson Marcela Pavia (1957) Non lo sperar da me (2018) on “Mi lagnerò tacendo” [I will complain silently] of Gioachino Rossini (text by Sandro Cappelletto) dedicated to the Duo Alterno Teresa Procaccini Rifrazioni (2007) Rossella Spinosa (1971) Miniatura Zero (2017) 5 Miniature (2016) for voice and piano played inside and outside “Miniatura Zero” is dedicated to the Duo Alterno Riccardo Piacentini (1958) FOTO-SONGS from the streets of the world (2011/16) - Foto-song 3. Cable car in San Francisco and tin drums in Portland for videoprojections and “foto-suoni” recorded and com-posed by the Duo Alterno - Foto-song 4. Busker in Beijing, and Saturday night in Bangkok China Town for videoprojections and “foto-suoni” recorded and com-posed by the Duo Alterno John Cage (1912-1992) The wonderful widow of eighteen springs (1942) for voice and closed piano (text by James Joyce) Duo Alterno from Turin-Italy is considered one of the most significant reference points in the vocal-piano repertoire ranging from the early 20th century to today. Since its debut in Vancouver in 1997 it has taken the best Italian music to about fifty countries across five continents. Defined by The Washington Post as the Duo "with a big voice and a fine sense of comedic timing" and as "high theatrics Duo with a strong personality" by the Los Angeles Times, "The Duo that gives voice (and piano) to the Italian twentieth century" by la Repubblica of Rome, "The wonderous Duo" by the Sub-Saharan Informer of Addis Abeba and as "an electric experience" by the Hindu of Chennai, Duo Alterno has published twenty CDs among which five monographies dedicated to Francesco Paolo Tosti (Urania Records, 2017), Giorgio Federico Ghedini, Alfredo Casella and Franco Alfano (Nuova Era, 2000/4) plus the comprehensive collection "La voce contemporanea in Italia – volumes 1-6" (Stradivarius, 2005/14, with first recordings and pieces by Abbado, Andrini, Battistelli, Berberian, Berio, Bortolotti, Bosco, Bussotti, Cage, Cattaneo, Clementi, Colla, Corghi, Dallapiccola, Donatoni, Esposito, Ferrero, Gentile, Giuliano, Guarnieri, Landini, Lombardi, Maderna, Manzoni, Morricone, Mosso, Nono, Petrassi, Pinelli, Scelsi, Sciarrino, Solbiati, Vacchi) and La voce crepuscolare (Stradivarius, 2010). Their experimental research into "foto-musica con foto-suoni" has led to six CDs of soundtracks for museums: Musiche della Reggia di Venaria Reale, Mina miniera mia, Treni persi, Arie condizionate, Shahar (Curci, 1999) and Musiche dell'aurora. The Duo has performed in Algeria (2016), Argentina (1998, 2004), Australia (2004/8/10), Austria (2007/14), Azerbaijan (2014/15), Belgium (2002/5), Brazil (2012/16), Canada (1997, 2003/8/9/13/14/18), China (2002/7/8/10/15), Croatia (2014), Czech Republic (2009/10/12/13), Denmark (1999, 2008/16), Estonia (2019), Ethiopia (2010), Finland (1998/9, 2010/15/19), France (2001/10/15), Germany (2007/8/9/12/13/16), Guatemala (2016), Holland (2005/14), Hong Kong (2011/15/16), Hungary (2011/14), Japan (2006/7/16), India (2004), Indonesia (2001/4/15), Kazakhstan (2001), Korea (2001), Latvia (2009), Lithuania (2009), Malaysia (2018), Malta (2011), Mexico (2019), Mongolia (2007/10), Myanmar (2018), Norway (1999, 2002), Holland (2005), Malta (2011), Peru (2012), Poland (2011/12), Russia (2005/9/14), Serbia (2009/10/12), Singapore (2001/2/3/10/15), Slovakia (2015), Slovenia (2014), Spain (2011/12), Sweden (1999, 2008/15), Switzerland (2013), Thailand (2015), Turkey (2005), Ukraine (2009), the United States (2000/3/5/6/7/8/9/10/12/13/14/18), the United Kingdom (2001/13), Uzbekistan (1998/9), Venezuela (2012/16). They have also given numerous performances in Italy, from MiTo Festival in Turin to Società dei Concerti and I Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan, Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, Accademia Filarmonica, Centro La Soffitta and Teatro Comunale in Bologna, GAMO in Florence, Società della Musica in Mantua, Festival Millemondi in Naples, Festival Scelsi in Palermo, Amici della Musica in Pistoia, Trapani, Udine, Venice, Musica d'oggi, Nuovi Spazi Musicali, Nuova Consonanza in Rome, etc. Tiziana Scandaletti is professor of Vocal Chamber Music and Riccardo Piacentini professor of Composition, both at the Milan Conservatory. .
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