The show

Concerto Bagnoli,the incredible story of the players laborers of Santa Vittoria

 

In the early decades of the nineteenth Century new popular dances spread in the Emilian countries. They are waltz, mazurka, polka. Music coming from afar and that immediately introduced their melodies, rhythms and above all a new way of making music, on the root of an archaic and peasant culture. The ballroom dance was born and in Santa Vittoria di Gualtieri (Reggio Emilia) this new musical tradition became an unique phenomenon of its kind. The music is played with string instruments, in small orchestra ensembles with five players, who come alive in almost every family. At the end of the Century this small village has already put on the profile of the legend, becoming in the great imagination of the low plain’s people, the Country of the hundred violins.

 

I VIOLINI DI SANTA VITTORIA are the only representatives of this musical memory. They were born in 2001 as musical part of a broader project of historical recovery of the Reggio Emilia’s ballroom dance. Among their most important participations those ones to the following festivals are worth to be mentioned:
“L’Altro Suono 2007” (San Possidonio, Modena), “Paleariza 2008” (Bova Superiore, Reggio Calabria), “Suoni di Terra 2008” (Sant’Agata de’ Goti, Benevento), “Stagione Concertistica del Teatro Comunale di Carpi 2009” (Carpi, Modena), “L’Opera Galleggiante 2009” (Spineda, Cremona), “Tracce di Teatro d’Autore 2010” (San Pietro in Casale, Bologna), “I Suoni delle Dolomiti 2010” (Molveno, Trento), “Anteprima Mito Settembre Musica 2011” (Milan), “Festival EstEuropaOvest 2012” (Potenza Picena, Macerata), “Villa Ada, Roma Incontra il Mondo 2013” (Rome) “Acque&Terre Festival 2013” (Gavardo, Brescia), “Ravenna Festival 2013” (Ravenna); “Itinerari Folk Festival 2013” (Trento).
Since 2007 until now they collaborate with Riccardo Tesi in the project “Osteria del Fojonco”.

 

THE SHOW

The most of the performed music, all original, belongs to the family Bagnoli, one of the most important and representative of the Santa Vittoria’s history. It includes waltzes, mazurkas, polkas, tangos and one-step, written between the Twenties and Thirties of the Twentieth Century, reconstructed as testimony of the musical taste of an epoch. A work of arrangement which allowed to give new life to the forgotten music, respecting its original freshness.
The show is enhanced by a narrative plot which introduces and accompanies step by step the audience into the historical happening. In a sort of a tribute to the filò di stalla, the memory of a land - which has not been only a geographic space, but also and especially a piece of culture of our country - is unfolded.