PROGRAMME >> evento N.36  

sunday sept. 6.time 21.15.piazza d'armi Fortezza Firmafede - euro 7.00
Stefano Bartezzaghi with Carlo Boccadoro - Solutions on the last page

For a long time, puzzles and music shared a superstition concerning the solution: the return to the keynote in the last bar, or to the topical word in the last page. But at some point the last bar dropped out of the score, the last page was not printed, and we were left with puzzles and music that we had to solve all by ourselves. On stage, Stefano Bartezzaghi and Carlo Boccadoro propose a new interaction between words and notes: playful texts, enigmatic music, dissonant consonants, evoked vowels, blank cases, black keys, palindromic or anagrammatic poems, monstruous sonnets by a number of authors. Carlo Boccadoro will perform a few pieces at the piano, some of them composed for the occasion.

Stefano Bartezzaghi
is an expert of linguistic games, puzzles and their history. Since 2000 he writes a column on puzzles (Lessico e Nuvole) and one on linguistics (Lapsus) in La Repubblica. His books include: La posta in gioco (Einaudi, 2007); L’orizzonte verticale. Invenzione e storia del cruciverba (Einaudi, 2007); Il libro dei giochi delle vacanze (Mondadori, 2009); L’elmo di don Chisciotte. Contro la mitologia della creatività (Laterza, 2009), part of the series i Libri del Festival della Mente. He has edited the new Italian translation of Raymond Queneau’s Exercices de style (Einaudi, 2007).

Carlo Boccadoro
is a composer and conductor. His writings on music are published by EDT, Garzanti, Marcos y Marcos, and Longanesi. Einaudi has published his books Musica Coelestis. Conversazioni con undici grandi della musica d’oggi (1999); Jazz! Come comporre una discoteca di base (2005) Lunario della musica (2007). Boccadoro has edited Racconti musicali (Einaudi, 2009).