With Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, this coming Saturday, Antonio Pappano will unveil with Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome a new work by cool-as-the-proverbial-cucumber Italian composer Luca Francesconi (former student of Stockhausen and Berio, Berio's assistant for many years, Mac user).
The new work in question is Hard Pace,
a new trumpet concerto that will come to life thanks to (magic trumpet man and friend of Greatest Living Composer Hans Werner Henze) il maestro Hakan Hardenberger & Santa Cecilia Orchestra, under Tony's baton.
The concert is a double bill, with Francesconi and, playing second banana to the Italian d00d, an emerging German composer, one Ludwig Van Beethoven (the Ninth Symphony; more info here)