Great success in Alghero for " The music of Antonio Simon Mossa ", an appointment presented for the first time at the Civic Theater during an event organized by the Camillo Bellieni Institute of Sassari in collaboration with the Simon Mossa Archive and the Humanitarian Society of the Sardinian Film Archive, with the sponsored by the Autonomous Region of Sardinia and the Municipality of Alghero.
Introducing the event with piano, orchestra and choral voices dedicated to the Sardinian intellectual who died in 1971 at the age of 35, Maria Doloretta Lai , president of Is.Be, who hoped for “a circulation of the project throughout Sardinia.
Mayor Mario Conoci said he was honored to host the presentation in Alghero: "A city that Simon Mossa felt deeply his and to which he remains tied for the great testimonies of his architectural skills, but also in reference to his cultural and political thoughts".
The discovery of the compositions turned out to be a surprise for the family themselves, as their son Pietro Simon explained: “We had always known dad's passion for music, inherited from our grandmother. We knew he played a lot of instruments, but we didn't know he composed music. When my cousin from Pisa informed us that she had recovered some scores signed by him, we showed them to an expert musician ”. Namely Battista Giordano, who from the Civic stage declared that he was “impressed by the quality of the writing and the arrangements. The characteristic of Simon Mossa's music - he specified - is that of being within a sound that characterized Italian cinema until the 1950s, coming from a certain entrance of North American jazz filtered through the Italian musical taste of the time. ". The transcription work took six years to be ready for submission.
Nadia Rondello , of the Humanitarian Society of Alghero, spoke about the approach of the young Antonio to the world of cinema, while the period of most intense political activity was outlined by Antonello Nasone, who identified the signs of Sardist sentiment already in the family context and in the teenage years.
The pieces of the concert were performed by Antonella Chironi on the piano, by the Glareano string orchestra, by Alessandro Schirano on the clarinet and by the ensemble of voices of the choir directed by Silvio Carobbi, who interpreted scores related to the activity of film director , and secondly creations related to youth as a band leader, composer and arranger. A second collection of scores concerned ethno-musicological studies, with transcriptions of the “mi e la” (song of the Planargia) and other Sardinian genres. The evening ended with thunderous applause with the performance of arrangements and compositions by Battista Giordano inspired by the musical production of Simon Mossa.
(Unioneonline / ss)