Bologna: the special concert for Ezio Bosso returns to San Petronio, on the fourth anniversary of his death

Four years ago, on May 14, 2020, Maestro Ezio Bosso passed away in Bologna, a composer originally from Turin who worked to open the world of classical music to everyone, in the name of a universal idea of ​​music as a shared meeting space between performers and the public.

Every year, starting in 2022, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, Archbishop of Bologna, and Annamaria Gallizio, the Maestro's personal assistant for many years, have promoted the organization of an orchestral concert in the Basilica of San Petronio, dedicated to Ezio Bosso. This special occasion will be repeated on Saturday 11 May at 19pm, once again in San Petronio: this year the concert will be an opportunity, not only to remember the work and testimony of Ezio Bosso, but also to raise a heartfelt appeal for peace.

The event is organized by the Archdiocese and is made possible thanks to the contribution of the Carisbo Foundation and the collaboration of the Municipality of Bologna.

The title of the concert, I am not afraid, comes from the String Quartet no. 2 by Ezio Bosso, which will be performed in the version for string orchestra: Ezio Bosso in presenting the pieces of his quartet wrote that “it all begins with children running in the summer fields... a race, a rumba...". The concert will take inspiration from this image of freedom, of childhood in times of peace, of childhood that is not afraid. In a present devastated by conflicts like the one we are experiencing, music will once again become the space in which to find and rediscover consonance and agreement, and the orchestra will become a paradigmatic symbol of the possibility of composing differences in a single space.

Also this year on The Buxus Consort Strings string orchestra led by Relja Lukic will be present on the stage set up in the Basilica and the concert will be preceded by a speech by Alessandro Bergonzoni on the theme of peace.

The collaboration with Emergency, to which the proceeds of the event will be donated, derives from the relationship that Maestro Bosso had with its founder, Gino Strada. In 2019, Ezio Bosso invited Gino Strada to participate in the show Che storia è la musica, broadcast on Rai 3 with unprecedented success for a television event dedicated to classical music, and on that occasion they spoke of peace against the backdrop of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony

And if entry is free and open to all those who wish to participate, precisely because of the collaboration with Emergency, a "responsible ticket" will be established in favor of the humanitarian organization founded by Strada: the idea of ​​the responsible ticket was born from Ezio Bosso himself, who has always supported the need to provide for the payment of an entrance ticket, and at the same time has always supported the need for everyone to be able to participate in concerts and cultural events regardless of their economic conditions. From here he had developed the idea of ​​a ticket whose amount is chosen directly by the spectator during the purchase phase in relation to his/her possibilities. In the case of the concert in San Petronio in Bologna, the responsible ticket will translate into the possibility of making a donation to Emergency at the entrance to the Basilica.

The event is also a preview of the Buxus Consort Festival, dedicated to Ezio Bosso, which will take place again this year in Gualtieri, in the province of Reggio Emilia, from 12 to 15 September.

Detailed information on how to participate is available on the site www.buxusconsortfestival.it

The program in detail

Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, BWV 1048
[Without time signature]
Adagio
Allegro

Philip Glass
String Quartet no. 2, Company
I. ♩ = 96
II. ♩ = 160
III. ♩ = 96
IV. ♩ = 160

Arvo Part
Da Pacem Dominates

Ezio Bosso
I'm not afraid suite
It rumbles towards the hole
Against the fathers
Gypsy Requiem
To fly
Of fear
Of loneliness
Thunder

Ezio Bosso says I'm not afraid
“There are many ways to encounter a story. You can read it, you can hear it from someone, perhaps by chance, during a trip, and continue to tell it by changing the details, according to what our mind deems most important and changing it into a new story which in turn... you can see it in a movie, you can simply imagine it.
What will happen, however, from its conception, will be a continuous regeneration from the moment our mouth begins to tell it or the ink begins to react on the paper.
This column is that. Niccolò wrote a story, Gabriele shot a film and I wrote some music that was associated with both things.
Because in reality this music was written precisely influenced by the elements of the story and the images of the film.
This is how these were born “Children's dances around a hole”. I won't bore you on the concept of the resonances of the obsessiveness of diatonia, of the microphones, of the conceptual use of the string quartet understood as a group of children, of Schumann or Janacek and of my teacher Vivier and their influence on my way of writing … […] it all begins with children running in the summer fields… a race, a rumba…”

Ezio Bosso, presentation of the album Io non ho fear, 2003

The Buxus Consort Strings string orchestra was born on the occasion of the Buxus Consort Festival from the desire to bring together in an orchestral formation the musicians who have worked with Ezio Bosso and who have assimilated his way of working. The purpose is to try to put into practice the ideas that Maestro Bosso, trained as a double bass virtuoso, has always professed with respect to the strings.

In fact, all the musicians who are part of the orchestra have in common the fact that they have worked with the Maestro and many of them have been part of the orchestral formations he founded previously: in particular, the StradivariFestival Chamber Orchestra, formed in 2017 on the occasion of the Stradivari Festival in Cremona, and the Europe Philharmonic Orchestra, founded in 2019 following the Grazie Claudio event, held in Bologna to remember Claudio Abbado five years after his death.

first violins: Edoardo De Angelis*, Gabrielle Shek*, Elisa Papandrea, Grazia Serradimigni, Niccolò Musmeci, Daniele Requesti.

second violins :Nicolò Grassi*, Gunilla Kerrich, Chiara Spagnolo, Carlotta Arata, Enrico Catale, Sofia Ceci
viole :Francesca Turcato*, Jessica Orlandi, Zoe Canestrelli, Davide Mosca
cellos :Relja Lukic*, Francesco Marini, Eugenio Catale, Michele Ballarini
double basses: Lucio Corenzi*, Margherita Vezzani, Salvatore La Mantia
harpsichord: Francesco Monica

* first solo parts

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