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    The Big Apple

    Thursday 27 February 2025
    Empoli (FI), Palazzo delle Esposizioni
    Thursday 27 February 2025 h. 9:00 p.m.
    MARCO PIEROBON conductor and trumpet
    Orchestra della Toscana
    Carnival Concert
    THE BIG APPLE
    Broadway & The Musical
    Tickets
    Full price €15,00
    Reduced €12,00 (Unicoop Firenze members, Under 26 and Over 65)
    Under 18 & Students €6,00
    Under 6 free entry
    Tickets on sale at Rinascita Bookshop (Via Ridolfi 53), Bonistalli Musica (Via F.lli Rosselli 19) and online at Eventbrite
    Info: Centro Studi Musicali "Ferruccio Busoni"
    tel. +39 0571711122 - cel. +39 3737899915
    csmfb@centrobusoni.org
    www.centrobusoni.org
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    The Carnival Concert of the Orchestra of Tuscany, conducted by Marco Pierobon – also trumpet soloist – is a tribute to the city that has most profoundly shaped the musical imagination of the 20th century: New York. A journey through cinema, jazz, and musical theater that pays tribute to three giants of composition: Ennio Morricone, John Kander, and George Gershwin. This extraordinary concert will take place at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Empoli, a venue that, with its architecture and history, provides the perfect setting to immerse oneself in the cosmopolitan and vibrant atmosphere of New York.

    New York is dream and ambition, rhythm and modernity, and on this evening its essence comes alive through arrangements that highlight its unique character. The boundless ocean and the promise of a new life echo in Morricone’s notes for The Legend of 1900, where a cry shatters the silence and the piano moves like a wave that carries destiny.

    Then, the dazzling lights of Broadway shine with Kander, a composer of seductive and ironic melodies capable of turning every song into a little show within the show: from the magnetism of All That Jazz to the defiant energy of Cell Block Tango, passing through the sarcasm and theatricality of We Both Reached for the Gun. Finally, New York becomes symphonic with Gershwin, where swing meets orchestra and jazz blends with classical music: from Fascinatin’ Rhythm to the Concerto in F, to the overwhelming emotion of the pages from Porgy and Bess, with its blend of blues, gospel, and timeless lyricism.

    A concert that tells the story of the city that never sleeps, with music made of light and shadows, euphoria and melancholy, and finds its perfect stage at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Empoli, a place where tradition and innovation intertwine to celebrate the myth of Broadway and the musical, the beating heart of the Big Apple.

    Every note is a story, every melody a journey through time and space.”

    This version incorporates the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Empoli naturally into the text while keeping the original meaning and flow intact.



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