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Abbot Joshua |
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Ilaria Greco |
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This August the hills have been filled with the sound of music. The Associazione Arte Corde, a small group of youth from our Molise region who study
classical guitar with Marcello Rivelli, have held a 10-day classical guitar seminar in the abbey bell tower and small meeting room. Fifteen students attended
each day for classes, workshops and practice.
During this time three classical guitar concerts were performed: The first one was on August 5th and consisted of duets played by Maurizio Cardines and
Ilaria Greco. These young people have developed amazingly during this past year. They showed a beautiful reciprocity and exquisite timing, versatility and
mature interpretation of pieces composed by Giuliani, Granados, Mertz, Carulli, Ponce and Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Both musicians aspire to playing
professionally.
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Christian Saggese |
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On August 9th, a truly inspired and spectacular concert was played by Christian Saggese, a friend of Marcello and one of the most outstanding classical guitarists of Europe. He was awarded the Segovia Prize in Granada in 1999. Indeed, he showed himself to be a true virtuoso with incredible skill and range of expression. The pieces by Frescobaldi (1583-1643), Tarrega (1852-1909), Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968), Regondi (1822-1872), Turina (1882-1949), Pagannini (1782-1840) and Ginastera (1916-1983) were all given a freshness of character and color with profound insight, a revelation. The final Sonata op. 47 is rarely heard because almost no one can play it. Christian showed that he not only knew it the music, but transmitted in his play of percussional tonalities mixed with innovative string effects, an indescribable joy and love in the many voices of the guitar. He is truly a Segovia for the 21st century.
The Final concert of the seminar on the 14th of August included all the participants for both the Course of Formation and the Course of Professionalization.
The younger class (Annalia Ciarlante, Lucio Di Giacomo, Marica Erocolano, Lorenzo Ferruccio, Noemi Miniscalco, Antonio Napoleone, Piera Ricci, Yuri
Sacco and Chiara Taccone) performed three pieces that had been given to them for the seminar work: Zaccari's Minuetto, Beethoven's Thema and Zaccari's
Corale. Piera Ricci was first chair for the ensemble. It was a moving experience to hear these to hear these nine children play together.
Piera Ricci and Marica Ercolano continued the program for the Formation Course by playing a sweet more complex piece, A Deux Voix by Couineau. They
were joined by Annalisa Ciarlante and Noemi Miniscalo to play the fourth movement of the Riverboat Suite by John W. Duarte called Coming Back. We
hope that this is a promise that they will come back for next year's seminar.
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Guitar Ensemble |
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The second part of the program was played by the participants in the Course for Professional work. Three students, Ida Pompeo, Fernando Sor and Ilaria
Greco, each played as soloist. Ida played Villa Lobos's Mazurka Chorus from the popular Brasiliana Suite, Luca
Dellatorre played Study by Fernando Sol and Ilaria
played Prelude No. 1 by Villa Lobos. This was the first time we had heard these young people perform outside of an ensemble and it was bravo!
To top off the evening, the soloists were joined by Maurizio Cardines and Pasquale Guglielmi for a quintet arrangement of Tango by Albeniz and Tepuyes by
Montes. The whole concert was a wonderful expression of the relation of a master and his students and their shared passion for beauty.
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Father Abbot Bernardo |
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August 10th, the Feast of St. Lawrence, is celebrated here as a solemnity because the first chapel of the abbey was the Church of St. Lawrence in which is the beautifully frescoed crypt of Blessed Abbot Epifanio. This year, Abbot Bernardo, archabbot of Montecassino and San Vincenzo, Don Pietro, O.S.B. and a group from the seminary in Cassino, joined us in a procession from the crypt to the present basilica for a solemn Mass.
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North Carolina Festival Orchestra |
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At nine o'clock that evening a bus and van arrived bring the North Carolina Festival Orchestra to the basilica to set up for a concert. They had gotten lost in
the winding roads of Molise. These forty musicians quickly set up, tuned up and were ready to play by the time the audience came in. The conductor, Serge Zenbaker, and his first violinist,
Emily Greitzer, lead the orchestra through a magical two hours beginning with Franz Schubert,
Symphony No. 3. The acoustics of the basilica are excellent as the music played with stones and the stone responded. After a brief pause , we were treated to
by Aaron Copland's Silent City and Prokofieff's Classical Symphony No. 1.
The audience and orchestra mingled freely after the performance and many musicians said that this had been their best concert in Europe this summer. They
recognized what the church gave them and they heard each other play in a new way.
In his Letter to Artists, Pope John Paul II says, that Dostoyevsky had a profound insight that "beauty will save the wold". He goes on to say, "Beauty is the
key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. ... It stirs that hidden nostalgia for God which a lover like Saint Augustine could express in incomparable
terms: "Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you!"" To us, it is never too late to find beauty and the music of these days is as
precious to us as fresh rain. It refreshes the human spirit on our way to a fuller knowledge of God and the fullness of his beauty, now and forever.
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Sweetcorn & Seedlings |
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As the music has flowed over the land, so the garden has been blessed with an abundance of green beans, Swiss chard, tomatoes, sweet corn, carrots, onions
and lettuce. There is a certain contentment in eating home grown food. We planted our squash on the compost pile this year and the zucchini has been
luscious.
This week our friend Ada Ottavoni of Venafro brought us 2000 seedlings to plant for our winter garden: different kinds of broccoli, cabbage, leeks,
fennel and lettuce. Fortunately Theresa, Danielle and the Strozzo family from Gaeta were here and all the plants were safely tucked into the soil. The weather
obliged by giving us two days of summer thunder storms and they all perked right up.
We had to say at least a temporary goodbye to Mary and Philip Strozzo
and their daughter Alyce as they have transferred to London. We want to give them special thanks for all they have done for us in their years here in Italy.
Theresa and Danielle came to be with them for a few days of garden work before saying goodbye to them. Philip also put a beautiful door on the hay barn so the
animals won't go in and mess up the hay now.
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Reverend Mother and Sr. Beppo
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We are so fortunate that Sister Beppo, a Benedictine sister from Taiwan, has joined us. Besides adding a new lovely voice in choir, she has a passion for the garden and fruit trees. Right now she and Reverend Mother are busy with the tomato harvest. Something good for everybody! Green beans, peaches and tomatoes are lining the shelves of the Cucina Rustica and our pigs are getting ready for their destiny.
We hope that all of you have been having a fruitful summer whether at work, studying, on vacation or having family reunions and that you are renewed in spirit for the coming fall season. May you continue to know God's blessing in your lives and have time to know the beauty of His presence in all things.
Sincerely in the love of Christ,
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