Preparations for the Barga Jazz festival 2011 start to pickup speed as we move closer to the start of the festival later on next month. We were speaking this morning with the director of the festival, Alessandro Rizzardi about some new interesting changes in the format of the festival.
For many years they have been using one particular musician as the main theme of the festival but that is changing this year as it just so happens that the 150th anniversary of the birth of Italy – the founding of the republic falls this year and so the entire Barga Jazz festival 2011 will be dedicated to the single theme of “The Italian Song Book”
The festival is not just about playing music but is a competition for composing and arranging music for orchestra and the entries this year have been flooding into the bargajazz office. The deadline for entries expired a week ago but packages sent from right across Italy and even abroad containing CDs and music scores for orchestra are still arriving thanks to the less than speedy postal service now in operation in this country.
Click on the interview above to hear Alessandro Rizzardi voicing his obvious pleasure at the amount of scores being sent into for the year’s contest but also mentioning his displeasure at the fact that cuts to the budget mean that the orchestra will have less time to practice the final selected compositions meaning that some will have “slipped through the net” and will not have been played in public.
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