Italy-Angola: musical instruments donated to school in Luanda

Luanda - The Italian embassy in Angola celebrated for the first time the Music Festival, an European tradition, with a ceremony held at the official residence of ambassador Claudio Miscia and during which dozens of musical instruments were donated to the music school Obra Bella, of the Angolan capital.

The celebration was an initiative promoted by the ambassador's wife Raffaella Tucci Miscia, according to Claudio Miscia revealed in his brief speech that marked the beginning of the event. "She met the music school Obra Bella and was moved by her commitment to the needy children of Luanda. So he asked all the relatives and friends that instead of giving Christmas presents, they would offer help to buy musical instruments that the school needed: strings, bows, drumsticks, cymbals and furs for drums", he began by explaining.

"Relatives and friends joined, the MusicArte store in Rome agreed to make a substantial discount and the first secretary of the embassy was in charge of the transport", he concluded.The ceremony featured a musical moment brightened up on the piano by the conductor Raffaella Tucci Miscia, who is music and played "Nuvole Bianche" by the Italian contemporary composer Ludovico Einaudi. Following the presentation of a school orchestra that sang "La donna e' mobile", air of opera "Rigoletto" by Giuseppe Verdi (only singing), excerpts from Vivaldi's "Four Seasons", and the theme of the film "Nuovo cinema paradise" and "O oboe' de Gabriel", both by Ennio Morricone.

The Angolan Minister of Culture, Carolina Cerqueira, ambassadors, officials of the Angolan Foreign Ministry and diplomats of various categories were present at the ceremony during which they also made monetary donations for the said school.