La Notte della Taranta
La Notte della Taranta - , the greatest music festival dedicated to revival and enhancement of Salentine pizzica, that will take place from 7th to 23rd August in Salento region
The Notte della Taranta is the greatest musical festival dedicated to revival of Salentine pizzica and to its combination with other music genres, from world music to rock, from jazz to symphonic music.
The festival was born in 1998 on Unione dei Comuni della Grecìa Salentina and Istituto Diego Carpitella’s initiative. Year by year it has acquired cultural prestige thanks to the Province of Lecce.
The "pizzica" is the music that marked the ancient healing ritual against the bite of tarantula, the dangerous poisonous spider. According to tradition in order to drive out the demon thought to have taken possession of the victim, generally a woman, tambourines should be beaten incessantly. The dizzily rhythmic sound of the tambourine combined with a frenzied hypnotic dance healed of the poison. Other types of “pizzica tarantata” are the courtship dance between man and woman and the “dance of the swords” also called “pizzica a scherma”.
The obsessive rythm in music and dance is still alive and is performed by some Salentine musicians who, gathered in the Ensemble La Notte della Taranta, meet the major performers of international music directed by several conductors
Every year the festival presents travelling concerts in the Council of Grecìa Salentina (Calimera, Carpignano Salentino, Castrignano dei Greci, Corigliano d’Otranto, Cutrofiano, Martano, Martignano, Melpignano, Sternatia, Soleto, Zollino) plus the Council of Cursi, Galatina and Alessano, in which perform the major bands of Salentine traditional panorama and international world
The festival will be concluded by the “final concert”, the “notte” (night) after which the whole event is named, an original production with a conductor who must review the repertorie of Salentine tradition and must conceive an original project, different year by year.
This logic generated new combinations such as the one between popular tradition and highbrow music through the meeting of 'Ensemble La Notte della Taranta with Symphony Orchestra Province of Lecce
The Notte della Taranta is the greatest musical festival dedicated to revival of Salentine pizzica and to its combination with other music genres, from world music to rock, from jazz to symphonic music.
The festival was born in 1998 on Unione dei Comuni della Grecìa Salentina and Istituto Diego Carpitella’s initiative. Year by year it has acquired cultural prestige thanks to the Province of Lecce.
The "pizzica" is the music that marked the ancient healing ritual against the bite of tarantula, the dangerous poisonous spider. According to tradition in order to drive out the demon thought to have taken possession of the victim, generally a woman, tambourines should be beaten incessantly. The dizzily rhythmic sound of the tambourine combined with a frenzied hypnotic dance healed of the poison. Other types of “pizzica tarantata” are the courtship dance between man and woman and the “dance of the swords” also called “pizzica a scherma”.
The obsessive rythm in music and dance is still alive and is performed by some Salentine musicians who, gathered in the Ensemble La Notte della Taranta, meet the major performers of international music directed by several conductors
Every year the festival presents travelling concerts in the Council of Grecìa Salentina (Calimera, Carpignano Salentino, Castrignano dei Greci, Corigliano d’Otranto, Cutrofiano, Martano, Martignano, Melpignano, Sternatia, Soleto, Zollino) plus the Council of Cursi, Galatina and Alessano, in which perform the major bands of Salentine traditional panorama and international world
The festival will be concluded by the “final concert”, the “notte” (night) after which the whole event is named, an original production with a conductor who must review the repertorie of Salentine tradition and must conceive an original project, different year by year.
This logic generated new combinations such as the one between popular tradition and highbrow music through the meeting of 'Ensemble La Notte della Taranta with Symphony Orchestra Province of Lecce
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