Church of San Gaetano in Vicenza: Christmas concert to the rhythm of gospel and soul

Tuesday 6 December, Church of San Gaetano in Vicenza, for Meeting on the Keyboard

Christmas concert to the rhythm of gospel and soul to pay homage the beloved father Pasquale Di Pietro

A program full of energy and spirituality, with the Sovizzo Gospel Choir

33 singers and 6 musicians.

Melodic and rhythmic fusion at the service of spirituality. A show full of energy, emotional charge, elevation, to start the Christmas celebration period in the best possible way. We’re talking about the “Sovizzo Gospel Choir”, for the second appointment of the 2022-2023 program of Meeting on the Keyboard – scheduled for next Tuesday 6 December, at 21.00 in the Church of San Gaetano in Vicenza – made with the patronage of Municipality of Vicenza and the support of the Intesa Group Employees Association.

The Sovizzo Gospel Choir was born in 2009,

from the desire of various musicians to experiment with new harmonic and rhythmic paths, starting with the gospel, to continue with the experimentation and study of songs “borrowed” from different genres, such as soul, pop or blues. Thirteen years of commitment on the Vicenza and national territory, alternating with significant collaborations with Associations no profit for charitable purposes. The staff is directed by Mariella Nicolin, a guitarist in love with choral singing, who has evolved in a path that has also led her to reinterpretations and experimentation with ever more interesting and demanding repertoires.

Gospel songs on the program,

written or arranged by great names such as Israel Houghton, David Bratton, Hezekiah Walker, Chi Coltrane, David Morales, where we find all the beauty of the sacred and the vivacity in the rhythmic and choral power of the style. The traditional spirituals revisited and rearranged in a more modern key and with an enveloping and solemn charm in the dialogue between the solo voice and the choir or between the instruments and the choir, such as “Amazing Grace”, “Go down Moses” or “I want Jesus to walk With me”. There is no lack of innovative arrangements of some pop songs such as “Can’t help falling in love” and “Holy Mother” alternating with songs of popular origin such as “Deus te salute Maria”, an ancient lauda in the Sardinian language, also a heartfelt expression of religiosity popular. And finally, some Christmas songs, once again rewritten in a gospel key.

A concert,

this, which the Vicenza Association directed by Mariantonietta Righetto Sgueglia has been organizing for many years at the temple of the Theatine Fathers: an appointment by now unmissable for those aficionados of the musical programs of Meeting on the Keyboardas much appreciated as awaited and which is usually also found to open or anticipate the many events towns which in the month of December follow one another on the theme of the nativity.

Pasquale-Di-Pietro
Father Pasquale Di Pietro

This year the appointment takes on an extra meaning: it will be a tribute to the late Easter Father OfPeter, historic rector of the Theatine temple, always close to young people and music, a great supporter of Incontro sulla Keyboard. The religious passed away last year: he was bound by strong feelings of friendship and a long collaboration in music to the Vicenza association.

Presale: Pantharei.
info: www.incontrosullatastiera.it

Church of San Gaetano VI - gospel concert

Church of San Gaetano in Vicenza: Christmas concert to the rhythm of gospel and soul