2011 Programme
Evento n.22
Alexander Balanescu, Pippo Delbono
Love and flesh
A concert by and with Pippo Delbono, who mixes his voice with the violin of Alexander Balanescu and the poetic words of Pasolini, Rimbaud, Eliot, in a quest for the secret, perhaps magic threads connecting persons and stories above and beyond different national and linguistic backgrounds. Maybe music is the secret story that keeps things together in harmony. ‘This concert,’ explains Delbono, ‘is my personal encounter with the violin. The same instrument that my father would play every night after coming home from work, and that he sold one day. The violin, the object of my presumed family connection to Niccolò Paganini. When I first heard Balanescu play the violin, I heard notes like cries of the soul coming out of his instrument.’
is a violinist and a composer, one of the most visionary of our time. He received his training in Bucharest, Jerusalem, London and New York. In 1979 he became director of the Michael Nyman Ensemble and has accompanied its tours for 15 years. In 1987 he founded the Balanescu Quartet, which has won great acclaim with its performances in many European and U.S. festivals.
is an Italian author, actor and stage director. In the early Eighties he founded his own theater company and produced all of his shows, from Il tempo degli assassini (1987) to La Menzogna (2008). He won the 1997 UBU Prize with his Barboni. In 1987 Pina Bausch invited him to take part in one of her productions at the Tanztheater in Wuppertal. His works have been staged in theaters and festivals in over 50 countries. His 2003 documentary Guerra won the David di Donatello award.
Evento n.6
Zygmunt Bauman
Reflections on the notions of community and network, on social networks and Facebook
Evento n.14
Gian Carlo Calza
Different, eccentric, extraordinary: aesthetics and creativity between Asia and the West
Evento n.26
Franco Borgogno
In other people’s hearts and minds. A psychoanalyst between tradition and creativity
Evento n.37
Sonia Bergamasco, Fabrizio Gifuni
A quiet sunny day. Attilio Bertolucci and Pier Paolo Pasolini, a friendship in verse
