Concert-lesson by:Gianni Trovalusci, flute
Starting from the 50’s / 60’s took place a musical revolution, destined to change composition and interpretation and the very idea of the musical language in the fields of Contemporary Music, having as one of its important medium a musical instrument: the flute.
In particular, during the first years of the mythical Ferienkursen in Darmstadt, at the beginning of the fifties, Bruno Maderna invited there a Roman based flutist, Severino Gazzelloni: as a result, very important music masterpieces were written for him by Bruno Maderna himself, Luciano Berio, Franco Evangelisti and Domenico Guaccero, and many others. Eric Dolphy, the famous jazz player, took some lessons from Gazzelloni in Rome, and honored the roman flutist by naming a composition after him, included in his 1964 “Out to Lunch!” album.
Another important flutist, Roberto Fabbriciani, a Gazzelloni’s pupil, collaborated with Italian composers, and wrote a remarkable page of the history of New Music, collaborating with Luigi Nono, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Aldo Clementi.
In this context, and thanks to Maestro Gazzelloni acting as a cathalist, we can talk about a ‘Roman School’. In Rome, indeed, took place the work of the already mentioned Evangelisti and Guaccero, plus other very important composers from the ‘outsider’ Giacinto Scelsi, to the still active today Walter Branchi, Marcello Panni and the American-Rome based Alvin Curran.
The ‘Roman School’ presents a very open way to write and perform music, taking part in the fascinating word of the Aleatoric Music, in which some element of the composition is left to chance, and/or some primary element of a composed work’s realization is left to the determination of its performer, making the moment of the live performance unique.
All the pieces presented, during the course of the event, are works written in the form of aleatoric music.