It took me quite a bit of time to write this post. I was really close to him, and honestly I’m still coping with his passing.
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Music and artists in the new witch hunt era
The Weinstein case generated a snowball effect: no, I’m not talking about the lawsuits or the #metoo stories. I’m talking about the side effect on the art world: from a petition to remove a painting by Balthus from a museum to the altered finale of Carmen.
I hate Boulez. Long live Boulez.
I don’t really hate Boulez. But I don’t like his music. But I do like what he tried to do. And I want more of it.
The Tempest – Shakespeare and Johnson
The Tempest - William Shakespeare and Robert Johnson As we all know, 2016 marks the 400th anniversary of...
432Hz – Traditional vs natural tuning
432Hz - The eternal debate For a few years now we’ve assisted to a debate on the “correct” frequency to be used in...
Henri Dutilleux
Henri Dutilleux - Between worlds Diving into contemporary music, Henri Dutilleux is one of those figures that attract...
ARTax – music rEvolution
2016 - ARTax is born It took some time. Depending on the point of view, it took a lot of time. Everything goes back to...
From Pickwick to picnic
The art of losing ground Once upon a time, not that long ago, you could catch quite a few cultural programs on Italian...
Djamileh – origins and synopsis
Djamileh or Bizet's lost slave ere I am, yet again, deeming with the intricacies of a...
Ravaged Beauty
A conceptual opera with a ravaged finale Wandering around the internet, one can make some quite unexpected encounters....
The art of training and developing the voice
James McCray was one of the greatest dramatic tenors of all times. After a career which saw him singing everywhere in...
Baudelaire’s goats
ecently I really had no time to compose much unfortunately, being busy with an arrangement of Der...
