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89.9 KCRW , with International Music, Fondazione Azzurra and Hit Week, presents FRANCO BATTIATO live with the "Nuovo Quartetto Italiano"
ALL RESERVED SEATS !!!!
Doors for rows a to k with cocktail 4.30 Pm , Doors for other rows: 5.00 Pm, Show 6.00 Pm
Singer, songwriter and composer Franco Battiato is the most mysterious and charismatic figure in Italian music of the last decades. Starting from his experimental beginnings and with his recent incursions both in painting and film directing, Battiato has established himself as an icon of fine thinking well beyond any artistic borders.
Franco Battiato is the only Italian intellectual in the last 50 years who has successfully combined an ongoing search for beauty, elegance and depth of thought with an ever growing popular consent. He is a big pop star who has achieved his status without ever compromising his aristocratic idea of art or bending to market laws.
Austere but friendly as an old time gentleman, always outside the music business spot light, Battiato with his latest album Fleurs 2 (2008) and the tour that followed it, has again found both critics and popular success, closing the trilogy of cover albums with great participations such as Antony and The Johnsons, Anne Ducros and Carmen Consoli. Battiato's cover of The Rolling Stones' Ruby Tuesday, originally released on the series opener Fleurs (1999), was prominently featured in Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 film “Children of Men”.
Joining Battiato on stage are pianist Carlo Guaitoli, Angelo Privitera on keyboards and programming, Davide Ferrario on lead guitar; also on stage with Battiato the “Nuovo Quartetto Italiano” one of the most accomplished string quartets in the world.
Web site: http://www.battiato.it/
www.hitweek.it
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