…The highlight, following tradition, was registered on the night of St. Lawrence with the dawn concert: 4.15 am, a thousand people muffled up against the cold in the marvellous gardens of the Villa Rufolo in order to be present at the performance by the “G. Verdi Orchestra” from Salerno, conducted by the young and brilliant Aurelio Canonici…
Oscar Iarussi, La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, 22 August, 2006