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The Rhythm Foundation of Miami Beach welcomed the Italian pianist Roberto Cacciapaglia on the stage of the North Beach Bandshell.
Founded in 1988 as a non-profit cultural organization, The Rhythm Foundation is a promoter of musical events with world-class artists, with a special focus on local artists. Its purpose is to connect people and strengthen the multiculturalism of Miami through live music. The Rhythm Foundation, under the umbrella of the sociable President James Quinlan, has signed an agreement with the city of Miami in 2015 that allows it to use the Bandshell amphitheater of North Miami Beach exclusively.
The completely open amphitheater is a jewel built in the post-war period, in 1961, by Norman Giller and Associates, and it received registration in the National Register of Historic Places in 2009 as an original example of MiMo style -Miami Modernism- characteristic style of Miami.
Among various artists having the pleasure of getting on this stage Juana Molina, Alice Coltrane, the Italian Roberto Cacciapaglia, Youssou NDUR and many others.
The evening of October 6th was organized in the name of “Italianness”, firstly with the music of Roberto Cacciapaglia, but also with Italian dishes, including Lasagna, pizza and wine Bel Paese.
Italian native of Milan, Roberto is an innovative composer and pianist who integrates classical tradition and electronic experimentation. He graduated from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan where he studied conducting and electronic music. In Pisa he collaborated with the CNB to study computer applications in the music field.
He is the founder of the Educational Music Academy, an academy of music born with the aim of giving voice to young musical talents, composers, performers, pianists and musicians and helping them realize their dream on a professional level.
In addition to collaborations with Italian singer-songwriters: Franco Battiato, Giuni Russo and Gianna Nannini, in association with the Royal Philarmonic Orchestra, he composes the advertising jingles for many Italian labels: Alpitur, Rocchetta, Banca Antonveneto, Barilla, Galbani and many other brands that break into our homes with television advertising without knowing that they belong to the creative mind of Roberto Cacciapaglia.
In addition to the indisputable skill of this artist in the piano performance of tonight, I was intrigued and fascinated by his explanation of cosmic music. For years Cacciapaglia is trying to work out, referring to the principles of Pythagoras, a research on the powers of sound with the purpose of being able to create a music without borders that expresses itself through a deep emotional contact. A mood music that evokes the space through the use of electronic instruments such as synthesizers that can generate imitations of real musical instruments or create sounds and effects that do not exist in nature, or sequencers that, in simple words, work like an electronic hand , automatic and programmable, that plays instruments and regulates buttons and potentiometers of synthesizers and audio processors that allow to reproduce ethereal and meditative sounds. Pythagoras associated with the speed of rotation of the solar system planets the height of a particular note, concepts that were taken up and deepened later by Kepler, who instead linked a melody to each planet.
A vision of music that goes beyond the skill of execution and becomes science.
This was Roberto Cacciapaglia’s first tour in the United States of America, followed by the stops at Carnegie Hall in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
