EVENTI

Great italian violinist at Malindi National Museum

Tuesday 21st D'Orazio concert with submarine exhibition

14-02-2017 by redazione

"Immersions, a violin a voice and the echo of centuries" is an unprecedented event for the National Museum of Malindi, which marks the confirmation of a process undertaken with the Italian Institute of Culture in Nairobi and the Italian Embassy in Kenya, but also the possibility of commingling not only between different art forms but also between associations, institutions and individuals who care about culture.
Tuesday, February 21 to 18 will stage a concert for violin only of a great Italian musician, favorite pupil of the composer Luciano Berio.
Francesco D'Orazio will play music by Johan Sebastian Bach, Paganini Chessa, Bellafronte.
The sonatas will be interspersed with readings of historical passages of some of the geographers who first sailed off the coast of Kenya in the early centuries after Christ, or there were news and reported faithfully, as Pliny the Elder, Claudius Ptolemy and Cosmas Indicopleustes.
D'Orazio will play in the upper rooms of the National Museum, located behind Uhuru Garden, the square of the change, and the seats will be made all around and on the balcony, but the violinist for each performance will change position, so as to enable all good listening and just as happy vision.
On the ground floor instead they will merge two photographic exhibitions, on the seabed of two different "Africas". The Italian Sicily, historical marine archeology habitats worldwide, and that of Kenya, yet to be discovered and likely future next destination of large studies about, who will also attend the Italian Cultural Institute. In fact, the evening had to be also one of the most important Italian marine archaeologists, Sebastiano Tusa, Superintendent of the Sea and the Sicily region.
Admission to the exhibition is free, for the concert the seats are limited, so make sure you have one, write to info@malindikenya.net to book and to be put on the list.