
MEET JAZZ 2015
Casa Cuseni, Via Leonardo da Vinci, 14 @5.30pm
Free entrance and free guided tour of the villa starting from 4.30pm
The Taormina Jazz Association and the jazz player Nello Toscano – host by the historical villa Casa Cuseni – will introduce you to four timeless kigs of jazz artists who made the history of Jazz:
January 31 >> Duke Ellington
February 7 >> Charlie Parker
March 7 >> Miles Davis
March 14 >> Thelonious Monk
About Casa Cuseni Brangwyn & Kitson Art Gallery
An Italian National Monument
Casa Cuseni, designed and built by Robert Hawthorn Kitson between 1905 and 1907 below the Rocca of Taormina, is one of several fine villas built by Englishmen who chose to add to the beauty of the town whose prospects of Mount Etna and the local coastline had captivated them.
The terraced gardens of Casa Cuseni are a remarkable feat of careful design, sound construction and skilful engineering. To hold the winter rainfall until the summertime, Kitson designed a set of large cisterns under the front terrace and the pergola, for which several wells and the swimming pool made further provision. The gardens were filled with citrus and other fruit trees as well as roses, vines and wisteria, some of which still adorn the terraces. They were an integral part of Kitson’s overall design, lined up on the axis of the house and enlivening the steep access to it. At every level there is a major feature to catch the eye (…).
(source: casacuseni.com)