(Finance) – Five soloists for three journeys on two historic trains. These are the numbers of Binary Timethe project of the Italian State Railways andNational Academy of Santa Cecilia that starting tomorrow, Friday 15 July, and until Sunday 17, will bring classical music to the stations of southern Italy, from Palermo to Salerno.
The wind quintetcomposed of the first parts of the Orchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome (Adriana Ferreira, flute; Francesco Di Rosa, oboe, Guglielmo Pellarin, horn; Alessandro Carbonare, clarinet; Francesco Bossone, bassoon) will perform with short performances of about 15 minutes in the stations of Palermo, Taormina, Lamezia Terme and Salerno and in institutional concerts of about 45 minutes in Messina, on board the Iginia ship and, in Reggio Calabria, on the Falcomatà seafront, near the Lido station.
The five musicians will perform music by Franz Joseph Haydn (Divertimento Hob. II: 46), the Trois Pièces brèves by the French composer Jacques Ibert of great transparency and melodic elegance, the fantastic Potpourri by Giulio Briccialdi on the most famous themes of Rossini’s Barber of Seville and the wind suite from George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess. Furthermore, Friday 15 July marks the initial stage of the tour of the Accademia Orchestra directed by Myung-Whun Chung which will perform at the Greek Theater of Taormina, while on 21 July it will play at the Sferisterio in Macerata and on 23 July at Villa Rufolo in Ravello.
The initiative, organized by the Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane Group, founding member of the Academy, foresees that the musicians travel aboard two historic trains of the FS Foundation: in Sicily on a convoy formed by newly restored Grand Confort carriagesin Calabria and Campania on the Arlecchino, the legendary and elegant electric train of the 60s, which will make its debut on the tracks south of Naples.
The whole event, the journey of the historic trains and the performances of the orchestra professors in some Sicilian, Calabrian and Campania stations intends to take on a strong symbolic connotation. Conceived by Ferrovie dello Stato, together with the FS Foundation which has restored and brought back some glorious trains of the past, it touches the three Southern Regions in which some of the most significant investments conducted by the FS Group companies are concentrated, as part of the PNRR and the Industrial Plan 2022-2031.
Binary Time, therefore also represents thean opportunity to talk about current and future projects carried out in southern Italy by the FS Group, through the Infrastructure Hub, with the aim of reducing the current gap with other regions and improving the social and territorial cohesion of the country. And it confirms the Group’s commitment to maintaining a constant relationship and dialogue with citizens, both by keeping them updated on current activities and by creating new opportunities for discussion, as in this case, in a musical setting with high cultural value.
With the start of the Industrial Plan 2022-2031 the FS Group is the protagonist of a new season of relaunching the country’s mobility infrastructures, with a view to integrating different modes of transport, in the name of sustainability. In order to make the network increasingly green and efficient, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane has planned over 190 billion euros in investments over the next ten years, 60% of which in the Center-South.