The music that comes from the rocks

POSTPONED! Saturday, April 26, 2025, at 9 PM in Caprie, Teatrino in the Novaretto district, Piazza Europa, a musical performance-concert The music that comes from the rocks.

Through music, lyrics, songs, and sounds, the figure of a man is narrated, Maestro Quintino Castagneri (1919-2007), who, as a sort of pioneer of ethnomusicology, self-recorded in the late 1960s to document the traditional music of his hometown, Balme, in the high Valleys of Lanzo (TO), to leave a trace of a sound and social world that was disappearing. A subject and a story that, like in a novel, could live and belong to any place crossed by the relentless passage of time. It tells the genealogy of a family, the Castagneri family, whose definite origins in the Valley date back to the 16th century, but it is also a reflection on technology and solitude: the use of means to communicate in which communication is mediated, indeed, by technological means and what pervades the present is a sort of loneliness.

With: Flavio Giacchero: bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, bagpipes, voice
Luca Teghillo: chromatic accordion, guitar, voice
Marzia Rey: violin, voice

As part of the sand tenth edition of "Chantar l'Uvèrn. From Epiphany to Easter, fragments of Occitan, Franco-Provençal, and French language and culture": the cultural festival that enhances original creations and promotes the Occitan, Franco-Provençal, and French language and culture through a rich and widespread territorial animation with musical, theatrical, anthropological, documentary, and environmental events.