Donnafugata for jazz

Great music is at home at Donnafugata. Pat Metheny, Manhattan Transfer, John Scofield and many others are among the great musicians who perform in the historic family cellars during the Marsala Jazz Festival.
Thrilling moments that crown a larger commitment to music and culture. From support for the Jazz School at the Marsala Festival to the "Gattopardo Suite", conceived by José Rallo and Vincenzo Favara to re-live, in a modern key, the atmosphere of Tomasi di Lampedusa's novel and which in May 2003 became the "Journey to Donnafugata" CD recorded by an exceptional group of musicians, with composer and performer Salvatore Bonafede at the piano and Enrico Rava on trumpet.

After listening to "Journey to Donnafugata", the jazz arrangement of the “Gattopardo” soundtrack, Donnafugata was unable to resist a desire to blend music, wine, literature and cinema into a stunning multi-sensory experience: the tasting in jazz presented at Miwine 2004 in Milan. The first step was to accompany the big reds, Angheli, Tancredi and Mille e una Notte with musical excerpts from the CD. The second was to identify each wine with a character in the novel, visualizing the most significant scenes from Visconti’s film. The Polka by Nino Rota, transformed into an extremely sensual blues, was a natural accompaniment for mellow and passionate Angheli. The accompanying image was that of Claudia Cardinale in the role of Angelica entering the dining room of the Donnafugata palace. Reputation & Character was the choice for Tancredi, a wine impressive for its broad, intriguing flavor. And this increasingly enrapturing music lets us re-experience Tancredi’s love for Angelica. And for Mille e una Notte? Rota’s Mazurka, with Burt Lancaster as the Prince of Salina in mind: elegant, austere, a true Gattopardo. The presentation concludes with a provocative combination of wine and chocolate melded with the notes of Giuseppe Verdi’s Gran Valzer . After tasting the chocolate laced with chili pepper prepared by Ernst Knam, a sip of Mille e una Notte, bringing new and increasingly ardent emotions.
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