Gospel atmospheres is the Gospel review by CFA Music Academy of the Phlegraean Fields makes a stop in Gaeta on Saturday 9 at the church of Santa Maria di Porto Salvo (Salita degli Scalzi, 17) at 19.30.
Forty choristers from Eyael, a choir born from the merger of the Città di Pozzuoli choir and the Città di Gaeta choir, will give life to a concert in which the disruptive energy of the gospel will be the protagonist. The pieces included in the lineup are: Amen, My lord kumbaja, How Lord Excellent, I won’t go back by William McDowell, Thank you Jesus, Ride on King Jesus, The Battle of Jericho, Adiemus.
“I’m very happy – declares Enrica Di Martinoartistic director of the exhibition and president of the CFA. – of this review because the protagonists are two choirs that will perform together for the first time. The strength of the Gospel lies precisely in its ability to unite people; the songs we offer underline the sense of brotherhood, of sharing typical of this music. As if by magic, as always happens in the Gospel, the many components come together in a single voice. Already in the experience of‘International gospel days, where national and international choirs have performed, I have noticed how the peculiarities of the individuals blend with those of the other participants, giving life to a true artistic intertwining particularly appreciated by the public. In Gaeta, the church of Santa Maria di Portosalvo, an evocative location, will host us and give us the energy to make our music known ”.
Notes on the gospel: When the Blacks from the African continent, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, were brought into slavery to work in the cotton plantations of the southern United States, their music accompanied them and to alleviate the fatigue of that life, plantation songs were born from which came the work songs and calls, songs that described their daily life in the fields and to communicate with each other.
The Baptist and Methodist preachers from Europe who converted them to Christianity found fertile ground in the strong spirituality of the blacks and in their music. Thus were born the Spirituals, a Christian reworking of African ritual music. With the end of slavery, 1865, there is a constant attempt to modernize the spirituals and thus favor their diffusion and commercialization, and a new musical genre is born whose rise was unstoppable, and soon, thanks also to the advent and to the diffusion of radios, turntables and tours, he crossed the American borders.
Gospel music is typically choral music. Since about 1960, successfully combining religious lyrics with contemporary rock rhythms and being accompanied by bass and drums, the Gospel choirs leave the churches meeting that success that is still deservedly recognized today.
THE PROTAGONISTS: MAESTRA ENRICA DI MARTINO: Graduated in singing at the San Pietro a Majella conservatory in Naples, graduated in choral conducting and composition at the Domenico Cimarosa conservatory in Avellino, she boasts national and European experience; in fact she has received several awards such as the second place in the GB Pergolesi Competition, the first place at “AMA Campi Flegrei Competition”, Scholarship Silvia Geszty in Neustad in Germany, third place in “Caruso De Lucia International Competition”. He has the CFP and EVT method qualification for teaching modern singing and vocal setting for actors. Many theatrical collaborations in Italy and Europe. As a vocal trainer and teacher she has been working in Campania schools and theaters for over twenty years.
CFA Musical Academy of the Phlegraean Fields directed by M ° Enrica Di Martino was born in 1998 and has participated in important exhibitions throughout Italy. The purpose of the CFA is the dissemination of music and enhancement of musical talents through innovative training and teaching techniques that the teachers of the school experiment, after having trained in an international context. Since its foundation, the Academy has received critical and public acclaim for the attention dedicated to the performances with attention to every detail and, above all, for the exchanges with European and international musical realities.
CHORUS EYAEL:
CHORUS CITY OF POZZUOLI founded in 2014 and made up of fifty elements, the city of Pozzuoli choir was born almost from a bet by the teacher Di Martino; in the path of spreading the gospel in schools, which is always the result of the interactions between teachers, pupils and parents, the enthusiasm of the teachers was always enormous. From this momentum the choir was born, which boasts various professionals in different disciplines who interact with skill, enriching the history of the choir with their life experience. Among the objectives of the choir is to publish a book “singing is a right” where it is highlighted that choral singing is an activity that must not be reserved exclusively for the elect and therefore for those who have musical potential but is for all and that the important thing is to identify their location to reap their benefits.
CITY OF GAETA CHOIR born in 2021 to be able to bring the experience of the Pozzuoli City Choir to another city. The enthusiasm immediately encountered in the Lazio city was such as to overcome the problems linked to the pandemic. After a few meetings, the choir members managed to interpret gospel songs that were certainly not easy. Music, once again, overcomes all difficulties and unites with its aggregation force.
Gospel atmospheres makes a stop in Gaeta – Gazzettino del Golfo