Musica Madre, Italian for ‘music mother’, will be a celebration of contemporary Italian music and include pieces from pioneering Italian artist Giouseppe Chiari and an experimental choral by Aldo Clementi. If you have not surmised it yet, Musica Madre is a performance embodied of solo voice, choir, improvisation and the occasion instrument in the background (yes, there’s an accordion).
Vaglini has been a influential figure in contemporary Italian culture and this collaboration with the Astra Chamber Music Society also features a piece that Vaglini composed for the concerts entitled Inventario, a collision of fragments, sketches and ideas from Vaglini’s notebook.
