Rome blog for Bed & Breakfast Chaplin Hostel

This article was written for the guests of the Hostel Chaplin B&B and Little Italy Bed and Breakfast in Rome.

Roma Jazz Festival

Among the saxophone players performing during the “Metasax-festival ”, the 31st edition of the Roma Jazz Festival, there are both famous foreign (Joshua Redman, Lee Konitz) and italian (Stefano Di Battista. Maurizio Giammarco) names.

The opening concert, which took place on Sunday November 4th, was held by the PMJO (Parco della Musica Jazz Orchestra).

The program for the following days:

05 Nov Manu Dibango and his Soul Makossa Gang
06 Nov Joe Zawinul
07 Nov Stefano Di Battista
08 Nov Joshua Redman Trio
09 Nov Rosario Giuliani with Enrico Pierannunzi with a “Homage to Monk”
10 Nov Benny Golson and Johnny Griffin
11 Nov Francesco Bearzatti (ore 18); David S. Ware
12 Nov Lee Konitz
13 Nov Maceo Parker

To reach the Auditorium Parco della Musica from Bed and Breakfast Chaplin Hostel Roma and from hostel Little Italy B&B one needs to take bus “M” from the main railway station Rome Termini and stay on till the last stop.

In 1982, when Alexanderplatz opened its doors the owner’s friends declared him to be completely off his rockers, a jazzcafé in Rome, and morevover in the quarter of Prati, nowhere near Rome’s most important nightlife areas, Trastevere and Testaccio.

Nowadays Alexanderplatz is Rome’s most famous jazzcafé, and artists like Chet Baker, Archie Shepp and Wynton Marsalis have palyed there. And just like the other, less weelknown muscicians who have played there they left their signatures on the walls of Alexanderplatz.

Giampiero Rubei named Alexanderplatz after the Berlin square. Rubei sees his creation as a meeting place and for him squares, and particularly the Berlin Alexanderplatz, are the ultimate meeting places.

Alexanderplatz celebrated its 25^th birthday on September 27th 2007.

From the Bed and Breakfast Chaplin Hostel Rome you take the metro line A to Ottaviano. Find the Via Barletta and turn right into Via Famagosta. After a couple of blocks this street will change names and become Via Ostia. Alexanderplatz can be found on #9.

From September 12th till 22nd in the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome a flamenco festival will take place.

During the 10 days the festival lasts the three caqtegories forming the soul of flamenco will be belicht: el cante (song), el toque (guitar music with rhytmic accompaniment of handclapping and footstamping) and el baile (dance).

The artists:

The festival begins September 12th with Estrella Morente (known from the soundtrack of Almodovar’s “Volver”) and ends September 22nd with a show by the guitarist Manolo Sanlucár.

There will also be exhibitions dedicated to the culture of flamenco, including samples of the andalusian kitchen.

For the complete program and for more information: http://www.auditorium.com/
You can get tickets by calling: 199109783.

To get to the Auditorium from the Rome Hostel Chaplin Bed and Breakfast you take the M bus from Rome Termini.

To celebrate the 10 years’ existence of MTV-Italia on September 15^th a music festival will take place at the Piazza San Giovanni in Rome. Several famous Italian bands and singers will perform: Tiromancino, Irene Grandi, Elisa and Negramari, who will perform with Jovanotti, are some of the biggest names.

There will be no big foreign names, since the organizers were afraid that that would take the attention away from the Italian singers.

At the same time a sister festival will be held on the Piazza Duomo in Milano.

The MTV music festival on Piazza San Giovanni in Rome from Hostel Chaplin B&B can easily be reached by taking the subway line A from Rome Termini to the stop San Giovanni. This is really the third stop from Termini, but due to work that is being done on the Rome subway system the Manzoni stop is not being used right now, hence count only two stops from Roem Termini.

Beethoven In Santa Cecilia

In September The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome will start its new season with Beethoven’s nine symphonies. Eeach symphony will be performed twice, on consecutive days.

The Program

September 03/04 The Ninth Symphony conducted by Kurt Masur

September 05/06 The First and Seventh Symphonies conducted by Kurt Masur

September 12/13 The Second and Third (“L’Eroica”) Symphonies conducted by Georges Prêtre

September 19/20 The Fourth and Fifth conducted by Georges Prêtre

September 26/27 The Eight and Sixth (“La Pastorale”) conducted by Marek Janowski

The tickets

Ticket prices are between 10 and 25 Euros (but if you are younger than 30 you only pay between 7,50 and 20 Euros). Tickets can be bought on-line via Santa Cecilia’s website.
For information: +39 (0)68082058.

How to reach the Auditorium from Rome Termini

The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia is part of Rome’s Auditorium. Renzo Piano designed a beautiful building and we recommend that you go there some time before the start of the concerts in order to be able to have a good look at it. From the Hostel Chaplin B&B Rome you take the de “M” bus from Rome Termini to the Auditorium.

From September 1st till September 30th 2007 every Saturday and Sunday at noon a concert will be held in the Chiostro di Paolo II (named after the palazzo’s founder, Cardinal Pietro Barbo, the future Pope Paulus II (1464-1471)).

The music that will be played will date from the middle ages and the periods of the rinascimento and the baroc. The musicians will try to interpret the pieces the way they were supposed to be played at the time they were written.

For more information and reservations you can call +39 (0)669994284.

From Chaplin B&B Rome and Hostel Little Italy Bed and Breakfast Rome you take bus 40E or bus 64 from Rome Termini tot Piazza Venezia.

The program is as follows:

Sep 01 “Insula Feminarum” played by La Reverdie
Sep 02 “Grida ed Intonazioni” by L’Homme Armé

Sep 08 16^th Century Neapolitan by Chominciamento di Gioia
Sep 09 More music from Naples, bawdy songs dedicated to the female

Sep 15 and 16 Bach’s Suites per Violoncello Solo by T. Lavronov en M. Tabbia

Sep 22 Music by o.a.. Pergolesi and Vivaldi by the group Ricercar Continuo
Sep 23 a.o. “Dolcezze Amarissime d’Amore” by C. Ansermet and P. Clerici

Sep 29 The Italian style from Corelli to Veracini played by Casazza-Mulé-Giorgi
Sep 30 “La Venexiana” by Luzzaschi e il Concerto delle Dame di Ferrara.