Musica Italiana night

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August 22, 2023 – Delightful concert by Maestro Yuriy Bekker for Dante Alighieri Society. We were so lucky to listen at a string quartet formed especially for us to play Italian music from Corelli to Vivaldi, from Puccini to Morricone. Maestro Bekker is well known in Charleston as Concertmaster of the Charleston Symphony, and Conductor of the Symphony Pops Orchestra. He is also the Conductor of the College of Charleston Orchestra.
The performance has been held at the charming St Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Downtown Charleston, followed by a garden reception.
Italy has been providing some of the world’s best loved music for four centuries. Here is the playlist of the evening:
Baroque:
– Corelli: Concerto grosso, op 6, no 4
– Vivaldi: Spring  from the Four Seasons
Opera:
-Puccini: O Mio Babbino Caro
-Mascagni: Intermezzo Cavaleria Rusticana
Movies:
– Bacalov: Il Postino
– Rota: Amarcord
– Morricone: Cinema Paradiso
– Morricone: Gabriel’s oboe
– Einaudi, Experience
Finale:
– O Sole Mio
– Tarantella

Seven centuries of Divine Comedy

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June 30th – Exclusive event for the DAS of Charleston in Foligno, the Italian city where, on April 11th 1472 was born the first ever printed edition of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. The printing was carried out by the master printer Johann Numeister, from Mainz, and Evangelista Angelini from Trevi, with the collaboration of the Foligno minter Emiliano Orfini. The members of DAS have the extraordinary opportunity of seeing the Anastatic Copy of the Edit Princeps and 14 rare and remarkable exemplars of Dante Alighieri’s masterpiece from the 1500’s to modernity. The event at Palazzo Trinci, an architectural masterpiece of the Middle Ages in the city of Foligno, is possible thanks to the cooperation with the City of Foligno and the Biblioteca Comunale “Dante Alighieri” di Foligno.