The Backdoor or Le Salon des Refusés or All the Feasts at the Temple (of rare music)

In 2006 the Institute of Music will continue the successful experiment featuring a cycle entitled Thirty days hath September, held in September 2005. For fifty-three matinées, every Sunday of the year, from New Year to Hogmanay, rare music or scores “neglected by history” will be presented at 11 am in the Palazzo Cini.

1 January Billy Wilder, The Emperor Waltz, with Bing Crosby, film (1948);
8 January Concert of waltzes from the age of Strauss as transcribed by composers
from the second Viennese school; 15 January Acusmatica Arcana I,
concert of electronic music, Imaginary Landscape V by John Cage (1957); 22
January Paganini Horror, a film by Luigi Cozzi starring Donald Pleasence (1989);
29 January Igor Stravinsky, Canticum sacrum ad honorem Sancti Marci nominis
(1955), and Mauricio Kagel, Fürst Igor [Stravinsky], funerary cantata for bass and orchestra (1983); 5 February The Romantic double bass I, two concertos for double bass by Giovanni Bottesini (1871) and Nino Rota (Divertimento concertante) 1973; 12 February Hungarian Bells, Magyarroszág Nevezetes Harangjaj,
musical portrait of sixteen great Hungarian bells; 19 February Fifteen waltzes
for piano by Ludwig van Beethoven plus seven Country dances by Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart; 26 February Acusmatica Arcana II, concert of electronic music:
Stria by John Chowning, Le rire by Bruno Maderna, and La fête des belles eaux
by Olivier Messiaen 5 March Violin sonatas for two and three parts by Elizabeth
de la Guerre. From the manuscript by Sébastien de Brossard (1695); 12 March
Zdenech Fibich, First Symphony in F major, op. 17 (1883); 19 March Manuel de Falla, El amor brujo,
first version (1915); 26 March The Romantic and Neoromantic trombone. Hector Berlioz, Oraison from
La Grande Symphonie funèbre et triomphale (1840), Lyell Cresswell, Kaea, Trombone concerto (1988),
Nino Rota, Trombone concerto (1966); 2 April Nicolò Jommelli and Giuseppe Giordani (Giordaniello),
Two versions of the liturgy Tre ore d’Agonia di NS Gesù Cristo; 9 April The Romantic double bass II:
Il Grand duo concertant sur le thème des Puritani, by Giovanni Bottesini, and the Sonata op. 65 by
Frédéric Chopin in the version for double bass and piano; 16 April Vassili Alekseievich Pashkevitch,
L’avare, comic opera in seventeen scenes (Moscow 1782); 23 April Dmitri Shostakovich, King Lear,
Film & Incidental Music; 30 April Two Corsican Rusiu Masses: Mass of the living and Mass of the dead
(Félix Quilici Collection); 7 May Anthony Philipp Heinrich, The Ornithological Combat of Kings,
The Conflict of The Condor, an American Symphony (1846); 14 May Heiner Müller, Wolfgang Rihm, Bob [Robert] Wilson, Hamlet- machine, opera, video; 21 May Acusmatica Arcana III, concert of electronic
music by Schaeffer, Ferrari, Chion, Malec, Sauguet, Schwartz, Henry, Stockhausen, Philippot,
Amy, Xenakis, Brown, Lejeune, Risset, Savouret, Milhaud, Dufour and Bochourechliev, with the special
participation of Roland Barthes; 28 May Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Vom Heute auf
Morgen, one-act opera, Max Blonda & Arnold Schoenberg, film (1996); 4 June Concert of Italian
popular songs transcribed by 20th-century composers (Petrassi, Pizzetti, Giuranna, Mulé, Pratella, Ravel);
11 June Grand Concert of obscene songs in the Bolognese student tradition (1840-1967); 18 June
A qui fortune, Plus onques dames, Trover ne puis, etc. Recital of songs composed by Matteo da Perugia
(1390-1415); 25 June Leonard Bernstein, On the Town, musical, video (1994); 2 July Louis Moreau
Gottschalk (1829- 1969), The Union, piano concerto-paraphrase of national hymns; Grande tarantelle
for piano and orchestra; Marcha y Final de Opera for piano and orchestra; Grande Fantaisie triomphale
sur l’hymne national brésilien for piano and orchestra; 9 July Henry Coster, The Inspector General, film
(1949), with Danny Kaye; 16 July The manuscript Add. 30491 from the British Library, London, Este
Libro es de Don Luis Rossi, containing the laments of Olympia and Arianne by Claudio Monteverdi,
and other songs by Fabrizio Fillimarino Jacopo Peri, Giovanni de Macque, Oratio dalla Viola etc.;
23 July Daniel Chorzempa, organist: W. A. Mozart, KV. 616, 336, 608, 244, 245, 594; 30 July
Cinquecentomila leoni by Aldo Nove and Andrea Liberovici with Gianfranco Funari as Tarzan, video;
Impressions of Himalaya by Fabrizio Cassano (Civilisations compared: We Afghans are the best of all
Muslims; Song of a sarinda salesman; Suni suni; the Lamasery Office, etc.); 6 August Ezra Pound, Villon,
opera (1923); 13 August The Russian Mozarts (c. 1750-1790) or the Russian students of Father Martini
from Bologna, philharmonic academicians: Maxim Berezovsky, Concerto for 5 and Symphony in C major;
Dmitri Bortniansky, La fête du seigneur, ouverture; Yevstigney Fomin, Suite de l’opéra Orphée et Eurydice;
20 August Ezra Pound, Cavalcanti, a radio opera (1932); 27 August (1) Uno dei dieci e (2) I due timidi,
two (2) operas in one (1) act by Gian Francesco Malipiero and Nino Rota.