Piano City Milan, Bowie, Philip Glass, Brian Eno on the bill

From 15 to 17 May the widespread festival “Piano City” returns to Milan, featuring more than 250 concerts in 140 different locations.

In the program, mainly dedicated to classical music – and available here www.pianocitymilano.it – there are also events of some interest for different palates. Here are two examples.

Saturday 16th at 5.30pm toPianist Ji Liu proposes at BiM in Viale Pirelli 10 “Low: From Bowie to Glass”, a program that explores the artistic dialogue between David Bowie and Philip Glass. At the center of the performance is the solo piano transcription of Glass’s “Low Symphony”, inspired by the album “Low” by Bowie and Brian Eno, alongside new arrangements of iconic songs such as “Starman”, “Space Oddity” and “Sound and Vision”.

Sunday 17th at 6pm at the ADI Design Museum – Piazza Compasso d’Oro 1, Entrance Via Ceresio 7, Enrico Gabrielli re-reads solo (piano and loop) “Ambient 1: Music for Airports” by Brian Eno is a fundamental album in the history of ambient and electronic music released in 1979 that marks the continuation of Eno’s experimentation with the tape recorder as a compositional tool, a process that began four years earlier with 1975’s “Discreet Music”.