On Thursday, 19 May, at 8.30 p.m., there will be an appointment in the Aula Magna with choral singing, in collaboration with Serate Musicali: the protagonist will be the Rutgers University Glee Club, one of the oldest and most recognised male choirs in the United States, conducted by Patrick Gardner. With this participation, the UniMi Orchestra wishes to launch a hospitality project by collaborating with musical ensembles active in other universities.
The programme that the Rutgers University Glee Club will offer us ranges from the music of William Grant Still, musician representative of the Harlem Renaissance movement, to that of Melissa Dunphy, currently professor of composition at Rutgers University, from a piece commissioned from William Bolcom (1988 Pulitzer Prize winner) for this year’s celebrations marking 150 years of the Glee Club (founded in 1872) to music by Giovanni Bonato, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Thomas Tallis. Closing the concert will be some College songs, the result of an ancient and deep-rooted tradition still alive today in US universities.

The concert will be preceded, at 7.15 p.m., by a conversation between Patrick Gardner and Gaia Varon.
It will be possible to reserve your place from 10 a.m. on 12 May here.
We would like to remind you that it remains compulsory to wear an FFP2 mask correctly during your entire stay in the hall.

On the occasion of the concert, at the entrance of the Aula Magna, there will be, on the initiative of the Università Statale and Fondazione UNIMI, a desk for fundraising in favour of Save The Children’s ‘Druzi’ project, which involves volunteers in the university community who know Ukrainian and Russian and are committed to providing educational and relational support to young people, children and adolescents, who have fled from Ukraine because of the war and have come to Italy.