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Amici della Musica in Florence

Florence is the capital of Tuscany, Italy, and it is known for its art and architecture, but it is also known for an exciting event that has existed since 1919: The Amici della Musica.

The History of the Amici della Musica

Since Florence felt the need to create a music center, the Amici della Musica was born in 1919. This association organizes concerts and cultural events. They are known for hosting very prestigious concerts both in Italy and abroad. The Amici della Musica features big names in the music industry. Oftentimes they include winners of different competitions. Originally the association intended to only host events for a select audience. As time passed by, however, they felt the need to cater to wider audiences in order to increase the number of those who appreciate classical music.

The Main Event

Starting this October 2011, The Amici della Musica will be holding concerts. The season is entitled Friends of Music. Lists of concerts were already lined up to serve visitors and locals with a taste for classical music. Starting in October 2011 and lasting until the month of April 2012, the grounds of Amici della Musica will be filled with music and music lovers. This event has been greatly anticipated by a lot of people who are thirsty for high quality classical music.

Amici della Musica and Its Composition

Amici della Musica has an ensemble that gives concerts in different formats. The ensemble is led by director Claudio Rastelli. It also includes other founding members such as Gabriele Betti, Paçalin Zef Pavaci, and Paolo Vergari. All driven by the love of music, these talented musicians were gathered in order to deliver great music and outstanding concerts.

Those who want to have an evening full of relaxing classical music should not miss the Amici della Musica in Florence. The whole month of November through the month of April will give you an opportunity to enjoy this amazing musical event in Italy. Your accommodations in Florence will allow you to enjoy breathtaking views of Florence and an event that will make your night even more romantic than what you originally planned.

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Your apartments in Florence will be even more delightful when you take the time to enjoy Amici della Musica. Music lovers everywhere will enjoy the remarkable concerts at this event. Make time to relax in Florence by attending.

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Pop icons usually dissolve quickly. Only some are still standing strong in the height of their career, still thrilling their crowd despite the years, creating sound dreams on the radio, that’s gone, that’s not there anymore, but which brings so much nostalgia. George Michael has known how to maintain himself, despite the years, as an interesting pop figure, with wide silences and distances, which has known how to make of his career an elegant pop trip, without falls or major stumbles. To think of it in another way, for example, when was the last time you heard something about George Michael, positive or negative? Well that’s the distance that places an artist in a unique position, where without recharged compromises he can have the freedom to carry on creating and being fabulous.

If, for example, you have the case of someone like Lady Gaga, it’s a different matter. Lady Gaga is, undoubtedly, talented but it seems that her reign is sustained by thousands of Twitter accounts, Facebook visits and Youtube. Of course, all of these are means in which social networks work efficiently, but little to they have to do with the original artist texture. Lady Gaga is of course the media product of today, a machinery of meanings and connotations that are incredibly post-modern. If Slavoj Zizek used to go out with her, allegedly, go figure. George Michael, however, maintains the charm and the magic that once held him as one of the 80s best singers, because it has to be said that with him, it’s not just a pretty face and elegance but also a particular style in his voice, that whispers, traps and wraps one sensually.

It has to be said that during the start of George Michael’s career, with the band Wham! together with Andrew Ridgeley, George created some of the best hits of the 80s, like ‘Wake me before you go-go’ or ‘Careless Whisper’, a romantic song with a sensual and sexual saxophone tone that, surely, warmed up thousands of love beds around the globe. Wham! only recorded three albums in its short time between 1983 and 1986, but it sold over 20 million copies of their work. George Michael, on the other hand, always captivated the world with that wonderful smile, tender eyes, toned muscles and sexy movements, both men and women. Today, the already mature but not least sexy George Michael is on tour with ‘Symphonica: The Orchestral Tour’, which has been taking him around different points in Europe and the UK. If you want to see George Michael like never before, this is your chance. What better experience than to listen to ‘Careless Whisper’ with a symphonic orchestra in the background. For more information on this tour, as well as tickets for the concert in Florence, visit George Michael’s official webpage: http://www.georgemichael.com/

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Nothing better than getting apartments in Florence and enjoying this living pop icon in this beautiful city. You can’t miss it.

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Translated by: aleixgwilliam
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The direction of music changes with time and the years. In some way, today, music touches everyone in a direct or indirect way. All contemporary sensorial experience implies that sound is present, from art in all its shape to every day life, which also isn’t exempt from thousands of different sound experiences: melody, noise, rhythm; at hand to all ears. Sound also generates movement. Hundreds of frequencies all together in the universe generate more changes and transitions of matter, which with light generate life, death, blossoming and falls. Our daily experience is with sound as it is visual, probably over all other sense. The stimulations that reality generates in this way are processed as joint experiences of which we have to find a meaning and interpret towards where reality is leading us to. And despite being disperse, locked into our own little worlds, the human condition helps us share all of this.

Music also occupies a great part of our internet experience. Because of that, we’re not just willing to the presence of text and visual information with graphic design, art, video which generally shoots up our interaction on the net.  All of this accompanies daily life, it pronounces us and makes us pronounce ourselves. On the other hand, the same net has known how to take advantage of the new means of sound reproduction to be able to carry on commercializing with music and sound in general. Today, any genre is available on the internet, as are programmes to share files, which allow the global information exchange to be realtime, allowing us to share sounds from any part of the globe. The different platforms and social networks allow music to be in constant movement and effervescence.

There might not be a better place for pop music than the internet. That’s how many musical and audio commercial products can promote themselves at hair-raising speeds. Let’s say that more information doesn’t mean knowledge or experience. This way, people like Lady Gaga can manipulate a single and get thousands of users in a fraction of a second and convert a song into an instant hit. What guarantees the quality of this product, its attributes regarding a pop song, is not necessarily its value as a music piece but, now, the amount of views or re-tweets that it gets on the net. The more movement a product has, bigger its impact will be. What’s curious as well is that now we’re all active participants of these advertising processes, we risk at the time of posting, twittering or uploading information onto blogs. The trap of sound, like that, gets everywhere and in a thousand ways.

On the other hand, the real experience of the classic genre of Opera can only be lived in a concert or a live performance, and it’s truly indescribable. It distances itself from the previously states phenomenons and it is, undoubtedly, an interior exploration that can’t compare to other live shows. The Anual Opera Festival in Florence runs until the 13th of August and you can’t miss it. For more information visit this website: http://www.festivalopera.it/

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To enjoy good music, nothing better than getting apartments in Florence and enjoying this beautiful city and its indescribable music.

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Translated by: aleixgwilliam
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Imagine you’ve saved for years for retirement. You wake up one day and discover that your accountant has left you penniless. You almost 70 years old and you divide your time between the Buddhist monastery where you practice meditation and your home, where you write and make music. What to do after making this kind of discovery. In the case of Leonard Cohen, you get back to work full steam ahead. In the last five years, since he discovered that his manager was stealing from him, he has recorded several new albums and is touring constantly. This year, the legend will tour Europe and Australia. On September 1, you will have the opportunity to see him live in Florence in the historic Piazza Santa Croce.

Over the years, his music has gained a reputation for being incredibly poetic, depressing and spiritually rich. His songs place themes of love, sex, art, depression and divine grace under the microscope. Before establishing herself as a musician and songwriter, he had already published two novels and several editions of poetry. But he decided to leave Canada, his native country, to migrate to the United States in 1967, because he thought that he might be more successful as a singer than a writer, and at that time, folk music was very fashionable. He frequented the Andy Warhol’s Factory and hung out with figures like Janis Joplin. During this period he released several albums and was acclaimed for being one of the best lyricists of his generation. However, he avoided the trap of getting stuck in the world of folk, and throughout his career he has released several albums inspired by various genres such as jazz, cabaret and experimental music.

Singers like Judy Collins, Jeff Buckley, Martha Wainwright and John Cale have sung versions of his songs which in some cases even surpassed the commercial success of the original songs. Rent apartments in Florence to live your spiritual adventures of love and self-knowledge. They might not be the Chelsea Hotel of the 70s, but they are comfortable, and safe to say that seeing this legend perform will be a magical experience.