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- Timetable of the activities during the Competition
THURSDAY OCTOBER 7th 2010
15:00 – 18:00:
Welcome and registration of the Choirs (Theatre
Novelli)
21:00:
Opening Ceremony and non-competitive Concert for
choirs class D (Theatre Novelli)
FRIDAY OCTOBER 8th 2010
Morning and Afternoon:
Welcome and registration of the Choirs (Theatre
Novelli)
9:30:
Choral Competition (Class A)
15:00:
Choral Competition (Class D)
21:00:
Non-competitive Concert for choirs classes A and C
(Theatre Novelli)
SATURDAY OCTOBER 9th 2010
9:30:
Choral Competition (Class C)
17:30:
Sung Service at Rimini Cathedral (Rimini Cathedral)
21:00:
Non-competitive Concert for choirs class B (Theatre
Novelli)
SUNDAY OCTOBER 10th 2010
9:30:
Choral Competition (Class B)
21:00:
Choral Competition (Class X) – Closing
Ceremony
2 - Sung Service at Rimini
Cathedral
The first 10 Choirs selecting this option on the
entry form may sing all together a Mass at Rimini
Cathedral, directed by Andrea Angelini, on Saturday
afternoon 9 October 2010 at 17:30. Here below are
the repertoire and the music scores in pdf.
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Processional |
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Kyrie |
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Alleluia |
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Offertory |
to be decided |
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Sanctus |
to be decided |
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Communion |
to be decided |
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Recessional |
to be decided |
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The Sung Service at the Rimini
Cathedral is one of the most intensive moment of the
Competition. In fact, not always one can realize to be inside the most
beautiful and perfect example of the Italian Sacred Renaissance.
The Tempio Malatestiano is the cathedral church of Rimini.
Officially entitled to St. Francis, it takes the popular name from
Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, who commissioned its reconstruction
from the famous Renaissance theorist and architect Leon Battista
Alberti c. 1450. San Francesco was
originally a thirteenth-century Gothic church belonging to the
Franciscans. The original church had a rectangular plan, without
side chapels, with a single nave ending with three apses. The
central one was probably frescoed by Giotto, to whom is also
attributed the crucifix now housed in the second right chapel.
Malatesta called on Alberti, as his first ecclesistical
architectural work, to transform the building and make it into a
kind of personal mausoleum for him and his lover and later his wife,
Isotta degli Atti. The execution of the project was handed over to
the Veronese Matteo de' Pasti (died 1486), hired at the Estense
court. Of Alberti's project, the dome that appears in Matteo's
foundation medal of 1450— similar to that of the Pantheon of Rome
and intended to be among the largest in Italy— was never built. Also
the upper part of the façade, which was supposed to include a gable
end, was never finished, though it had risen to a considerable
height by the winter of 1454, as Malatesta's fortunes declined
steeply after his excommunication in 1460 and the structure remained
as we see it, with its unexecuted east end, at his death in 1466.
The two blind arcades at the side of the entrance arch were to house
the sarcophagi of Sigismondo Pandolfo and Isotta, which instead are
now in the interior.
3 - The venue of
the Competition
Teatro Ermete
Novelli
Via
Cappellini 3 - Rimini
tel. +39 0541 24152
On the 27th March 1895 the Town
Council decided to build a brick stage in the
centre of the Racetrack, between the beach and
the harbour. The measure was deemed necessary to
attract the foremost theatre and variety
companies during the tourist season, some of
which, in the past, had declined the invitation
because of the precariousness of the existing
stage. The venue for various types of shows had
long been placed temporarily in the area near
the Kursaal, and when the Town Council decided
to build a stable structure here the history of
the theatre began. It was originally named
“Arena al Lido” and later “Teatro Ermete
Novelli”.
For over a decade this "friendly fairground
booth" built entirely of wood, mounted in June
and dismantled at the end of the season, became
one of the most important summer evening venues,
contending the audience with the other two focal
points for entertainment in Rimini: the Kursaal
and the Pier.
The Arena al Lido was the property of the Town
Council, but – like all the other tourist
attractions in Rimini – it was run by the
“Società Anonima Bagni”, the company which
managed the bathing establishments. In 1911 the
Arena al Lido ran the risk of closure as it did
not conform to public safety standards. Over the
years, the entire structure had become worn and
shaky. Under these conditions the theatre, now
decrepit, was taken over by Ermete Novelli. This
great star performer decided to carry out a
series of important works of restoration and
embellishment. On the 10th August the
newspaper “Momento”, commenting on the work done
by the artist, wrote: "Mr. Ermete Novelli has
worked one of his usual miracles: he has given
new life to a dead structure". And a few days
later the people of Rimini, grateful for his
intervention, decided to name the theatre after
him. The official baptism took place on the 29th
August 1911, with a comedy interpreted by
Novelli himself, after a series of very
successful performances. That evening Count
Carlo Biancoli, the chairman of SAB, took the
stage to thank publicly, on behalf of the people
of Rimini, the famous star of the show, and to
thunderous applause from the audience he
re-named the theatre "Politeama Ermete Novelli."
Under the direction of the famous actor the
theatre near the beach became a focal point for
the best Italian theatre companies and for
displays of elegance and worldly pleasures.
The war closed this fascinating chapter of
history.
On the 30th January 1919 Ermete
Novelli died and the theatre by the sea was
taken over by the company which managed Rimini
Politeama. After the war, and four years of
deplorable neglect, the theatre no longer
offered any guarantee of safety: the framework
was corroded and the seating precarious, and the
whole building threatened to collapse at any
moment. The new management patched up the
structure as best they could, and the theatre
came to life once more: for the next six seasons
the calendar of the Novelli Theatre entertained
its fans once more. But in August 1925 the
one-time "friendly fairground booth," now "a
rotting carcass", was demolished.
After 10 years, in the same area, a new theatre
was built, again named after Ermete Novelli.
This building, modern, functional and in "sober
and elegant" twentieth-century style, was built
throughout in reinforced concrete and could seat
1,500 people between stalls and gallery.
Designed and built by surveyor Oddo Rondini and
by engineer Enrico Del Piano, the new theatre
filled the huge gap in the artistic and
recreational life of the seaside part of the
city. The major Italian companies came once more
to perform at the new Novelli Theatre and for
some years the city of Rimini was once more a
venue for enthusiastic audiences and all the
pomp and elegance of the times of the old “Arena
al Lido” were renewed. The theatre miraculously
survived the carpet bombings of 1943 and '44,
although there was some damage to the stage. For
two years it was occupied by the Allies and used
to entertain the occupying troops; in the summer
of 1945 a modest opera season took place and in
1946 there were several variety shows.
In 1947 the theatre was returned to the city.
Without any explanation whatsoever, the Allies
returned the Theatre in a filthy and severely
damaged state: the roof, ceiling, windows, walls
and decorations were devastated; boxes and seats
were beyond repair; the electrical system was
completely destroyed, and all the scenic
equipment had disappeared. That same summer,
after substantial restoration work, the Novelli
Theatre opened again to the public and began
once more to fulfil its role as the artistic,
cultural and recreational centre of the seaside
part of the city.
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