Uri Caine
The Passion of Octavius Catto
Uri Caine piano
Barbara Walker vocals
Mike Boone electric bass
Clarence Penn drumkit
Ralph Alessi trumpet
Achille Succi saxophones
organizzazione Rosalba Di Raimondo Artist Management in collaborazione con Live Arts srl
in collaboration with Lugocontemporanea
Italian premiere
A story from the past to fight today’s racism: Uri Caine, a musician and composer with a social conscience, renowned for his ability to blend different musical styles, from jazz to classical, is the author of a poignant and highly significant work dedicated to Octavius Catto, an African-American born in South Carolina in 1839 and raised in Philadelphia – the city where Caine himself was born. Catto became a civil rights activist and was assassinated in 1871. To set his story to music, Uri Caine drew on the African-American tradition, particularly gospel, classical contemporary music and jazz, demonstrating once again that in art, as in everyday life, there should not and cannot be any kind of division.
