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Today I want to suggest a piace that make us dreaming. This is the prelude no.15 Op.26 by Chopin, in db major, also called “Raindrop prelude”. Why this name?

Because this piece have a note, the Ab obstinated that is everywhere, like the G sharp, a continuous beat that remember the falling of a raindrop.

in the first part we have the high frequencies of the Ab, that we have to play with great delicacy:

This is a “benevolent Ab” as explain the teacher Modugno in “Raccontare Chopin”, by Corrado Augias. The G sharp instead is called “malevolent G sharp”.

Here the download of the sheet music:

The download is about the whole opera no.28, you have to see the prelude number 15.

The tale of Queen of Sheba has been always surrounded by a beautiful shadow of mistery.

We can find it told and narrated in several ways …the expression “Queen of Sheba” is not common to all the peoples: the title “Queen of Sheba” belongs to   our christian\ebraic culture, while in Arabia the correct name is  Regina Bilquis, and Machada for the ethipians.

The legend tells that  Sheba, queen of Axum, feels the wisdom of king Solomon fading out and wants to meet him to prove his famous intelligence and sense of law. The queen of Sheba is fascinated by the beauty of Solomon’s thought. Their union gives birth to Menelik, whose meaning is”Son of the wise man” and  that have into his blood the roots of a divine knowledge; he will be  the main root of the solomonic family….  i don’t know why but this song, by this famous algerian  musician makes me think to this beautiful, dreamful, story…

“Aicha” by Khaled (his music could be defined pop raï, pop, rock, funk. Pop rai,in particular, is a musical genre that melts the algerian traditional music with occidental elements that makes it more commercial and international… )

ENJOY!!!

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Interview with  Hiromi Uehara and with Pepe Gasparini  at Amarone in Jazz 2010

Some time ago we went to  Verona in order to talk with a young and talented artist: the japanese pianist Hiromi Uehara, that performed a piano solo concert at the Palazzo della Gran Guardia during the festival Amarone in jazz, the only italian live .

We chatted a little with  Pepe Gasparini, a musician and the festival’s artistic director, who illustrated during the interview the ends of this cultural project and told us about his musical vision, and  the Centro Studi Musicali di Verona  ( he is the president) with great enthusiasm. The result of this passion and effort is evident in the amazing good achievements and  in festival’s atmosphere. You can listen to what he told by this short video interview.

The climax of the event was, obviously, Hiromi Uehara performance, a young musician whose artistic talent and figure attracted our attention:  a genius of the piano, she began to study at the age of 6, attending the  Yamaha School of Music al Berklee College of Music di Boston. Today she is 31 and has played with Chik Corea or in a Philharmonic orchestra, important steps for an important musician like she has proved to be. The live performance didn’t deceived. In addition to recent compositions from her last piano solo project “Place to be”, Hiromi played pieces from old LPs and we could notice her extraordinary technical ability and deep empathetic approach to the instrument. We saw her smiling, crying, nodding…as the notes were something coming from her deepest soul.

Visionary, acrobatic, with waterfalls of notes that seem not to stop and, suddendly,  move to introspection, Hiromi  tells us her emotional world.. a world that is not abstract but comes from the observation of the little things of everyday life: flights , towns, pictures taken randomly ,  hotels,  impressions, a world that her sensitivity transforms into an original and rich musical language.

Here it is the interview with Hiromi… follow her because she will success..

Download the interview Hiromi Uehara

Giulio Cinelli – Michele Guerrini – Paola Parri