The Ludwig Van Picture Show

The successful series of music and films at the Palazzo Cini will be continued this year
with more sessions for rare-music lovers. The cycle of musical recordings begun in 2005
and entitled Thirty days hath September or Pilgrims at the Mecca of Rare Music, provided
the opportunity to hear some musical gems, mainly now very hard to find recordings.
In 2006 the series was re-baptised The Backdoor or Le Salon des Refusés or All the Feasts
at the Temple (of rare music) and consisted of 53 sessions providing the opportunity
to listen to relatively unknown music or music “neglected” by history.
In 2007 the series entitled Hello Mr. Fogg! Round the world in music in 52 weeks at
the Palazzo Cini was inspired by the idea of a “geographic” survey of music from very
distant epochs, locations, cities and environments.
In 2008 the series, now intriguingly entitled The Ludwig Van Picture Show, will be divided
into four seasons and will consist of 52 weekly showings of films throughout the year.
At 5 pm every Saturday there will be showings of rare videos or films featuring music.
The programmes lasting 60-100 minutes will be introduced by detailed notes. The
calendar for the spring and summer seasons are as follows.

Spring 2008
I. 22 March Bob Fosse Sweet Charity; II. 29 March Frank Scheffer From Zero: John
Cage; III. 5 April Jean-Luc Godard Notre musique; IV. 12 April Rozema 6 gestures
Bach-Yo-Yo Ma; V. 19 April Emir Kusturica Super 8 Stories; VI. 26 April Raymond
Saint-Jean Le Mozart noir; VII. 3 May Ingmar Bergman The devil’s eye; VIII. 10 May
Henry King Marie Galante; IX. 17 May Francis Ford Coppola Cotton Club; X. 24 May
Otar Iosseliani Jardins d’automne; XI. 31 May Alain Resnais Pas sur la bouche; XII.
7 June Ernst Lubitsch Die Bergkatze; XIII. 14 June John Adams El niño.
Summer 2008
XIV. 21 June Federico Fellini – Nino Rota Prova d’orchestra; XV. 28 June Jim Sharman
The Rocky Horror Picture Show; XVI. 5 July Werner Herzog Death for 5 voices. Gesualdo;
XVII. 12 July Schumacher-Webber The Phantom of the Opera; XVIII. 19 July François
Girard Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould; XIX. 26 July Marx Brothers A Night
at the Opera; XX. 2 August Benjamin Britten Death in Venice; XXI. 9 August Alexander