Sto core mio

“Sto core mio si fosse de diamante sarrìa spezzato da tanto dolore ( This heart if it were made of diamond it would break for such pain) ” recites the paragraph of a villanelle of the sixteenth century; and an other: “Villanella ch’ all’acqua vai, moro pe’ te e tu non lo sai ( You country-girl that go to take the water, I die for you and you do not know it) ”. The pain and the death are the common effects to the war between the men and the one inner war, fought in order to conquer affection and attentions.
Other songs tell of revolutions or risings like the Cunto di Masaniello, fishmonger and head of the revolt of 1643 against the umpteenth excise tax set up from the Spanish Viceré to the Neapolitan people, or In galera li panettieri, that speaks about the protest of the people against a strike of the bakers whom they wanted to increase the prices of the bread in 1570.
One of most meaningful tarantelle of the XVIII century, Il guarracino, moves on the bottom of the sea an history of betrayal and love, which leads to a true war: a battle with guns, bombs, cannons and rifles to which participates an impressive variety of fish of the Tyrrhenian Sea, a page that is also a precious document for the copiousness of the language that has brought back to us.
War is also that one fought every day in Naples in the market of the Rumba Scugnizza by Viviani, it can be impossibility for the love, longing distance, or it can create unknown history of love like that one of the children been born from the union of Neapolitan women with American soldiers of the Tammurriata nera.

The musicians

Review

LA NUOVA FERRARA 27 giugno 2004

NAPOLI SEDUCENTE A POMPOSA cinque secoli di amore e guerra nelle canzoni un successo

Uno spettacolo "a tutto tondo", coinvolgente al punto giusto, tanto da richiedere due volte il bis. Un'interpretazione intensa e mai tragica nemmeno quando si parla di guerra, perché è la guerra vista dai partenopei, con quel modo di osservare, raccontare la vita tutto loro, con un pizzico d'ironia e tanto sentimento.(...). Attorno alla canzone napoletana i musicisti, accompagnati dalla gradevole voce della Testoni, (...) hanno saputo miurabilomente mescolare le sonorità popolari, anche nelle villanelle, a quelle di tradizione classica, fino a virtuosismi inediti che hanno lambito l'Arabia e la Spagna, con l'uso del liuto arabo e delle nacchere. Canti e musiche che hanno parlato di amore e guerra, di speranza e di dolore, di popolo, di rivolta e anche di disincanto. Il coinvolgimento totale di un pubblico, non folto, ma abbastanza numeroso e colto da gradire sommamente la rappresentazione, è arrivato quando nella sala delle Stilate, è stata avvolta dalle norte di una delle più significative tarantelle del '700, il Guarracino, quando la guerra si sposta in fondo al mare e diventa un prezioso documento di ricchezza linguistica partenopea. (...)

M.R.B

TECHNICAL SCHEDULE
The concert of Sto core mio can be carried out without amplification in halls of no excessive large size and equipped of suitable acoustic or in particularly propitious for listening courtyards or cloisters. The indications that follow are worth for halls or large theatres or for open spaces, with no propitious acoustic.

AUDIO:
The described systems will have to be mount to you and verified before the arrival of the musicians. The technicians of stage and room (and a responsible of the preparation) will have moreover to be there during all the duration of the rehearsals and of the concert.
FOH:
High quality system of spread (Meyer CQ1, UPA1C + Sub, d&b C4 (o C7) + Sub, EAW, EV Deltamax,ecc.) positioned so as to have uniform cover on all the restricted area to the public. Systems disposed so as to have one the most possible homogenous distribution of the sonorous pressure (as an example by means of suspension or positioning to one sufficient height) are preferred.
- Mixer with feeding phantom
- Digital reverberation (Lexicon PCM70 o 90, KT 780, Yamaha SPX990, ecc.)
- Stereophonic grafic Equalizzatore 31 bands o parametric (KT DN360, BSS Varicurve, SCV, ecc.)
- 2 Ch. compression (DBX160, DBX166, Drawmer, BSS DPR404, Behringer Composer, ecc.)

MONITOR:
2 wedge monitor on independent lines
ADVISED CHANNELS AND MICROPHONES:
10 Chitarra François Mic Neumann KM184, AKG C480, AKG C535 COMP
11 Plettri/Chit. Guido Mic Neumann KM184, AKG C480, AKG C535
12 Vox Guido Headset supplied from them
13 Vox Silvia Neumann KSM105, AKG C535, Shure Beta 87 COMP
14 Plettri/Chit. Fabio Mic Neumann KM184, AKG C480, AKG C535
15 Zarb Neumann KM184, AKG C480, AKG C414, AKG 3000
16 Tamburello Shure SM58
17 REV1L
18 REV1R
19 REV2L
20 REV2R
NB: On open air all the condenser microphones must be supplied of anti-wind ear-phones.
It is possible to modify something, but it is necessary to establish it previously.
Phonic: Corrado Cristina tel. (+39) 348 2208543 corradocristina@iol.it

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