For Angelo Gilardino's biography, catalogue, and other information, see www.angelogilardino.com

(c) Reza Ganjavi

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This is an inadequate attempt to communicate something tremendous I
witnessed today.
Today I had the pleasure and honor of hearing Angelo Gilardino's brand new
work - Concerto per fisarmonica, chitarra e archi (for accordion, guitar and
strings).
It is difficult to find the words to convey it. It was like eating an
unknownly delicious fruit from another universe for the first time - or
walking on the lands of another marvelous galaxy - or waking up to the
gigantic sunrise in deep JoshwaTree desert. Perhaps mind-expansion would be
a better term. Sense-of-self certainly did not exist as all senses had
vanished in the vast beauty, taste, color, and form of this phenomenon
called "music". It felt like the cure to all human's ills - to put the young
people in a stadium and instead of the trash they usually listen to blast
this gem - they're bound to like it, rather get transformed, transmuted by
it as it is supremely beyond like & dislike. They're bound to get high by
it - though it is not a drug that gives pleasure and painful side-effects.
It gave one a sense of incredible expansion - taking you out of your being
into the realm of the unknown which was filled with surprises, and immensity
of the present movement of the notes and color of sound - a sense of
otherness which words can not go near.

The computer which played the score had a very beautiful sound - I can not
imagine how incredible this will sound with live 8, 1st violins, 8, 2nd
violins, 6 violas, 3 cellos, and 2 doublebasses.

Regards
Reza
www.rezamusic.com