Franco D'Andrea is an eminent jazz pianist who has been acclaimed all over Europe and the USA. He has a long cereer as a solo pianist and a composer. For many years he has also taken an intense teaching activity. His music is the result of a synthesis which embraces all the history of jazz from ragtime to the "free" style including the European music and the African rythms. His style calls for some really serious listening.

The Franco D'Andrea Quartet is completed by the young musicians Aldo Mella-bass, Alex Rolle-drums and Andrea Ayassot-alto sax "whoese playing indicates that they possess vast knowledge and experience in the jazz tradition."

During his career Franco D'Andrea played with many important jazz musicians such as Pepper Adams, Barry Alsschul, Gato Barbieri, Enrico Rava, Chet Baker, Don Byas, Lee Konitz, Fade Yaula and many more.

The Quartet is in his first Australian tour and ready for an intense program.

Special concert with the Australian legend of jazz DAN BURROWS: Saturday October 3 Great Hall International College of Tourism & Hotel Management (St. Patrick College) - Manly Cove, 8.00 pm
Bookings and Information: Manly Visitors Information Centre Tel 9977 1088

Wednesday, October 7 Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 5 to 5:45 pm (not open to the public)

Thursday, October 8 Harbourside Brasserie Pier 1, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay - 9.00 pm.
Bookings and Info.: Harbourside Brasserie, Tel 9252 3000
BAROSSA MUSIC FESTIVAL
Saturday, October 10 - 8.00 pm
Peter Lehmann Wines Barossa Valley Tel 08 8359 2994 barossa@camtech.net.au
Sunday, October 11 - 12 noon

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As we approach to the new millenium we feel inclined to give a special emphasis to all those events wich open on to future perspectives or wich deal with relevant facts or figures of the current century.
La Frederick May Foundation dell'Universita` di Sydney in collaborazione con l'Istituto Italiano di Cultura presenta il Dott. FEDERICO SANGUINETI dell'Universita` di Salerno in
Il Percorso Politico di Dante
Nato a Torino nel 1955, Federico Sanguineti si forma presso le Universita` di Genova e di Salerno. In quest'ultima universita` e` tuttora docente di Storia della Lingua Italiana. E` un esperto dantista che ha al suo attivo studi importanti sullo Stilnovo, la Divina Commedia, i rapporti fra Cavalcanti e Alighieri condotti alla luce de Il Convivio e la Vita Nova. Altri studi riguardano Giovanni Boccaccio, Lorenzo de'Medici, il Driadeo d'amore e Pistole di Luca Pulci, la storiografia manzoniana, Giacomo Leopardi, Giuseppe Mazzini, N.Machiavelli e la sua fortuna novecentesca.
Istituto Italiano di Cultura Giovedi` 8 Ottobre, 20.15
Informazioni e prenotazioni IIC Tel 9392 7939

The Opera Project Inc. supported by the Italian Institute of Culture and Allans Music presents a radical interpretation of the dramatic and musical structures employed by Puccini in this renowned specimen of Italian Opera.

The Terror of Tosca explores how opera reveals its peculiar function: to seduce by means of aesthetic pleasure and music. Its focus is on the aesthetics of speed - the exhilaration of pressed tempos, and it considers the thorny question of gender representation and its theatrical treatment.

The Opera Project was established in 1997 by Nigel Kellaway and Anette Tesoriero with a mission to examine theatrical structures in collaboration with a forum of prominent Australian artists.

The Performance Space 199, Cleveland St. Redfern 16- 31 October, 8.00 pm

Bookings and Information: Performance Space 9319 5091 Tickets $24; $12 concession; Italian Institute members $12.00

The Italian violin virtuoso FABIO BIONDI and his legendary baroque ensemble Europa Galante are on their first Australian tour.They will perform the work which gave them international fame:

THE FOUR SEASONS

There has been a widely acclaimed recording of The Four Seasons on the Opus 11 CD lbel. It is now considered as its "definitive version".

The effect is like a well estored painting by Caravaggio or Tiepolo; the freshness of the colours, the dramatic contrasts of the composition, the very Italian bravura and the universality of the appeal suddenly leap across the centuries.

CORELLI: Three Concerti Grossi, op. 6

VIVALDI: The Four Seasons

Sydney Opera House, Tuesday 20 October, 8.15 p.m.

SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE TWENTIETH-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

Per iniziativa della Associazione Giuliani nel Mondo di Trieste arriva in dono a Sydney la collezione