Sonata for tubes -
Classical music arias for unusual instruments, by and with Ferdinando D'Andria, Maila Sparapani, Marilù D'Andria with the support of the Ministry of Culture and the Emilia Romagna Region
Unusual music or new circus? It is the circus of invention. Sung and played live, Sonata per tubi is a contemporary circus show that researches the musical possibilities of circus objects and tools, transforming them into musical instruments through ingenuity and the use of technology. “Everything we touch or do emits sound: circus equipment, the stage, ourselves.”
The concert begins: flying pipes transform into a double bass and a cello. The music progresses between Rossini, Bach, Beethoven, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones and Luis Armstrong. Then she arrives: a teenage girl, a modern princess, who upsets every harmony.
In every teenager there is, in the imagination, in the thoughts and in the deepest areas of the soul, the myth of the hero, the need to do something heroic, particular, that is outside of everyday life in order to become adults. What will be? We search for a crescendo of three-voice polyphonic songs, dances and musical and circus tests of courage, which will lead to a ritual for the definitive transition from adolescence to adult life. The pizzicato of the musical clown reveals the soul of the three actors who, with a universal language accessible to all, meet and clash in the magical game of life.
The instruments: Basso Tubo - double bass; Tuboncello - cello; Minitube - Violin; Clavax -clava-sax; Diabolofono - sonorous diabolo; Sound pole - amplified Chinese pole; Bass drum stage - amplified stage.
