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-Sir Elton will be visiting Rome to offer one of the most remarkable concerts to take place this year in the Eternal City.

Exceptional side by side concert at the Auditorium of Rome. Mark your calendars, on the 19th and 20th of September 2010, Elton John will be performing, the artist who for four decades has been charming the entire world. Aside from Elton John himself, Ray Cooper, a spectacular percussionist, will be joining him on stage.

 Elton John, born as Reginald Kenneth Dwight, he started to play the piano at the early age of four. At the age of 11 he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. His first band was called Bluesology. He la… read moreter auditioned (unsuccessfully) as lead singer for the progressive rock bands King Crimson and Gentle Giant. In the early 1970s he recorded the concept album “Tumbleweed Connection”. He became the most successful pop artist of the 1970s and he has survived many different pop fads including punk, the New Romantics and Britpop to remain one of Britain’s most internationally acclaimed musicians. Elton John announced he was a bisexual in 1976 and in 1984 he married Renate Blauel. The marriage lasted four years. He is well known as a campaigner for AIDS research and he keeps his finger on the pulse of modern music. He was knighted in 1997.

 Ray Cooper on the other hand had began violin lessons since he was a child, soon after switching to drums. His musical career began at the age of 14 with his first professional engagements being in and around Birmingham, England. At 18 he was called up into the Army and was posted to the North Staffordshire Regimental Band, touring for three and a half years in India and parts of Burma. Ray arrived in the United States in 1966 and worked in Miami Florida for four years. From there to Las Vegas, working at major hotels accompanying the Russ Morgan, Ray McKinley and Larry Elgart Orchestras. Ray then formed a trio called “The Dam Limeys” performing in Las Vegas as well as for the opening of the London Bridge in Lake Havasu Arizona.

 At the late ‘70s they went took on a tour in pairs – Cooper/John. It was described as one of the most memorable concerts of all time. First stop was in Russia in 1979. Then followed by the ones in Europe and South America. And then, the rest of the world.  

Tickets in sale beginning from Monday 21 December 2009 with prices ranges from 50 to 200 euros, and reduction price of 20% for younger crowd with less than 26 years of age.

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-The legendary music group will perform in Rome next november. Prepare your broomsticks, trash bins and plastic tubes because Stomp will show you a different way to see (and listen to) the world.

Stomp has no words, everyone can understand it. It has little or no melody in the traditional sense, so it doesn’t matter it your taste in music is jazz, classical, dance or pop. Stomp is about rhythm, which is common to all cultures.

   Stomp was born in England in 1991 by two very creative personalities Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, indeed “creativity” is the keyword for the associates of  this  group of people who work together using simple building blocks, trash bins, brooms, or anything else that can produce music through noise.

   The drive of Stomp to use common daily objects can compare them to the Trash movement which convert  garbage and waste materials  in art. Their show includes elements of Pop Art, Futurism, mute cinema, cartoons and circus. Even more, African tribal rhythms, hip hop, break dance, tip tap, heavy metal and moves from the Japanese  martial art kendo. A mix of artistic calls that transform the show into a variety of sound and fantasy. Leaving the theatre you will feel the need to look around, the street or your house, for objects that your imagination can turn into music. This way you can feel that you make part of “Stomp”!

  

After their last successful Italian  tour in 2009, the group will  return in Rome for a new revolutionary and enthusiastic show   presented  at Teatro Olimpico di Roma –  Piazza Gentile da Fabriano, from 9^th to 17^th of November.

For more info you can visit the official site of Teatro Olimpico: www.teatroolimpico.it. The venue, as the most important cultural spots in the city can be asily reached from Yes Hotel and Hotel Des Artistes.

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Rome is also known as a city with many traditions, they often go back many generations, but sometimes you happen to find yourself living neo-traditions without knowing its real origin This is the case of the padlocks at the Milvio bridge, a custom started by young people (and not so young) who attach a lock on the central streetlight of the Milvio bridge and throw the keys into the river below to show their love. Everything comes from the protagonists of the book “I want you” by Roman author Fedrico Moccia. To strengthen their bond,the characters of the novel leave a padlock on the third lamp of the historic bridge. Many young lovers have imitated the ritual and know Ponte Milvio is known as the lovers’ bridge.

If you are in love and want to take part of what has became a tradition here are the instructions for the Roman bridge of love: you should go on the bridge with a lock and two keys. Done? All right. Now write initials on the lock and close the lamp. Done? Ok. Now take a key and throw it in a river, that will guard your covenant of love And for those who do not believe, Federico Moccia writes on his blog: “For you that dream for you then there is a chain of lovers. Maybe one day you go there on that bridge in Rome, Ponte Milvio, the third streetlight, that overlooks the Tiber, and overlooking the bridge of Corso Francia…And you will find that chain.”