Jazz on the tree to celebrate the restart

PERUGIA - Music, nature, culture and environmental sustainability are the main themes of the 'Two for tree and orchestra' concert, an event of "restarting" with the notes of Paolo Fresu (trumpet, flugelhorn, effects), Daniele di Bonaventura (bandoneon ) and the Perugia Chamber Orchestra but also a large tree. Because the two musicians will play sitting on the branches of the cedar in the center of the courtyard of the rectorate of the University of the Umbrian capital and the orchestra arranged around the trunk. On July 19, therefore, at 8.30 pm, within the "Jazz goes to University" initiative, the University of Perugia and the Umbria Jazz participation Foundation wanted to bring together two great musicians, among the most creative Italian jazzmen, like Fresu and Bonaventura, particularly sensitive to environmental issues; a tree, dear to generations of students; the Perugia Chamber Orchestra, which has already collaborated with the two jazzmen in very successful projects (for example, Altissima Luce, a reinterpretation of the Laudario di Cortona).

The initiative was presented in a press conference in the presence of the rector Maurizio Oliviero and the member of the board of directors of the Uj Foundation, Gianluca Laurenzi, supported by the regional and municipal councilors for culture, Paola Agabiti and Leonardo Varasano. "Thanks Italy, Italian thanks" is the other title suggested by the rector. "Because with this concert - stressed Oliviero - the Umbrian cultural institutions want to share and embrace and ideally thank the whole country for what it did during the months of health emergency". As mentioned by Laurenzi, the project, also presented last year within the Umbrian Music Festival, should have concluded Umbria Jazz 20, which this year will not be done in July because of Covid-19. A concert that promises to be exciting, "in line with the commitments and actions undertaken by Umbria Jazz" in support of policies and behaviors marked by environmental sustainability "he added. 'Two for Tree and Orchestra' therefore wants to be - it was said - good music no less than a strong call to responsibility, which we must all share, to love and protect our trees, out of love for the environment. Agabiti, after having applauded the synergy created by the University and Uj, highlighted the quality of an event "that combines art, entertainment, culture, environmental sustainability". "Covid - he continued - has put many regional programs at risk but Umbria is showing that, thanks to the measures taken and the civic sense of the citizens, you can win the challenge of restarting. "Also for Councilor Varasano the day of July 19th will be" full of meanings ", thanks to the place where it will take place and because it will celebrate a" new beginning for the city , for the University, for the region and for Umbria jazz ". The event - it was pointed out - will be for 86 spectators in attendance, but Umbria Jazz will try to reach the widest possible audience thanks to streaming on the web, its own social channels and those of the artists, and Radio Monte Carlo. The concert will also be streamed through the communication channels of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as part of a project to promote culture.