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A program of over 140 events with great chamber and symphonic music, from 22 September 2019 to 28 June 2020

Milan, September 18 2019 – “Dario Fo and Franca Rame” was presented at the Palazzina Liberty, the 2019/20 concert season of Palazzina Liberty in Musica, the schedule dedicated to symphonic and chamber, vocal and choral music, which from 22 September to 28 June 2020 will liven up the building in the heart of the Formentano Park in Largo Marinai d'Italia. 

The 2019/20 program will be inaugurated on Sunday 22 September, at 18.30 pm, with a concert by the Orchestra Milano Classica, in symphonic guise for the occasion. Music by Ravel, Stravinsky and Bernstein will be performed. On the podium Beatrice Venezi. The Orchestra, heir to the historic formation of the Angelicum, today presented an artistic project renewed in content and methods of use, which takes place on weekends from September to June. 

There will be four dates organized by the Civic Wind Orchestra of Milan-COF, an ensemble in residence since 1991, alongside musical theater shows dedicated to children, in collaboration with La Sala dei Tanti (between January and April 2020).

Other prestigious hospitality events are confirmed during the season: the La Risonanza ensemble (starting from 30 October with Handel's Cantate Italiane), the Liederìadi Festival (first appointment, Sunday 1 December 2019, with Benjamin Britten's Christmas Carols) and IDEA-International Divertimento Ensemble Academy, with 3 events dedicated to the music of our time including the final concert of the Call for Young Performers (27 May 2020). Furthermore, PianoLink returns with the VI edition of the MiAmOr Festival (from 3 to 6 June 2020) and the opera and operetta shows that characterize the VIII edition of Invitation to the Opera of La Compagnia del BelCanto, aimed at lovers of the melodramatic genre with 7 titles on the bill, presented in semi-scenic form and in period costumes, from Il barbiere di Siviglia (28 September 2019) to The Merry Widow (26 October 2019), from Le nozze di Figaro (30 November 2019) to Carmen (April 25, 2020), just to name a few. 

The Città di Milano plectrum orchestra, a usual guest in the period preceding the Christmas holidays (14 December), will follow with a second concert (8 February 2020) dedicated to the music of the best Italian and international mandolin tradition. 

The events produced by the Art & Musica Insieme Cultural Association, in collaboration with Municipio 4 (12 October 2019), will enrich the proposal of Palazzina Liberty in Musica. Still others will be offered by the Le Dimore del Quartetto Association on 14 November 2019 (Europa Nostra Award 2019) and by the Rotary Club of Milan with the recital of the finalists of the International Opera Singing Competition “Premio Koliqui” (15 November 2019). 

The Palazzina Liberty will also be one of the epicenters of some of the most attractive city events (Cities& Weeks) promoted by the municipal administration: Music Week (18 - 23 November 2019); Design Week (April 2020); PianoCity 2020 (from 22 to 24 May 2020).

Also of note, included in the schedule of Milano Classica#TheClassicalExperience, are the events organized in collaboration with a very dense network of partners such as: Warner Music, Realtà Debora Mancini, Fondazione Monzino, Le Cameriste Ambrosiane, Parade Italia, Il Clavicembalo Verde, Russiyana, Associazione Ludosofici Italiani, Orchestra Rete Interscholastica Insieme per la Musica and Choirs of the schools of the metropolitan city, Universal Music Italia, Associazione Manifestare Opportunità, Milano Metropolitan Orchestra, Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado, Concerto Classics, Yamaha Music Europe and Associazione Culturale TamTando .

There is a lot of musical content covered. 2020, for example, will be the opportunity to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's death: on 12 January by the Indaco Quartet, on 9 February with the Kanon Trio, on 29 May, with Harmoniemusik, a musical fresco on the Beethoven repertoire and contemporary authors for wind ensemble by the Civic Wind Orchestra of Milan and on 18 June with a concert aimed at rediscovering the German composer's literature for cello and piano. A focus is dedicated to the universe and musical genius declined by women, with events scheduled from the beginning of 2020: from the concert on January 27th dedicated to The Ladies of the Orchestra (to celebrate Remembrance Day) to that of February 8th with the emblematic title Il piano è donna, ending with a vocal, choral and instrumental Brahmsian fresco by the Liederiadi Festival (15 March). 

The project stands out in the PLIM season, created in collaboration with the Sons of the Shoah Association of Milan. On the evening of October 15, the chamber ensemble formed by the musicians of the Civic Wind Orchestra of Milan will interpret pages by Gideon Klein, Charles Gounod and the Jewish poet and musician Ilse Weber, dedicated to the Theresienstadt ghetto and the tragedy that took place in Auschwitz on October 17, 1944.

To open a window towards contemporary literature, on the evening of 8 November 2019, the Civic Wind Orchestra of Milan will dedicate a musical-theatrical performance to the Milanese poet Alda Merini, on the tenth anniversary of her death. Concept, dramaturgy, interpretation and direction by Manuela Tadini.

In summary, this confirms the choral vocation, with a complex and multi-voiced score, of the PLIM project, a program characterized by a strong accent of plurality in which different genres and languages ​​coexist, styles and practices only apparently distant from each other whose common objective , through the practice of good music, is an increasingly wider and desired usability by the Milanese public. 

The fourth edition of the PLIM project still bears the mark of Alfons Mucha (1860–1939), the brilliant Moravian artist and champion of art nouveau: the chosen image – Third Great International Music Competition, Milan, 1 and 2 September 1906, lithograph – it belongs to the “Achille Bertarelli” Civic Collection of Prints of the Sforzesco Castle, among the most representative collections of the Ambrosian heritage. The graphics, created by the Communication Area of ​​the Municipality of Milan, are renewed. 

The detailed and constantly updated program of initiatives is available on place.

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