Just as Walfgang Amadeus Mozart had shown in the Piano Fantasies and Sonatas, beginning with K. 310 in A minor, Ludwig van Beethoven also conceived the composition for the same instrument as if it were intended for the orchestra. Neither Franz Joseph Haydn nor later Franz Schubert had garnered the same sensibility. The thought of…
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On March 14, 2018, the same day Albert Einstein was born, the great cosmologist Stephen Hawking left us due to the serious illness that accompanied him for most of his life: an illness that prevented him from moving his body but never his mind and thought. His scientific discoveries about black holes and the book that…
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The Eliseo Classica for Antarctica project was carried out by the Associazione Suono e Immagine between November 2012 and May 2013, at the Teatro Eliseo in Rome, in collaboration withENEA, the National Museum of Antarctica and National Geographic Italy, with the main objective of promoting the dissemination of culture, art and music through artistic-cultural initiatives…
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Light, Gravity and Music! On Thursday, Nov. 25, 1915 , in a lecture at the Prussian Academy, 36-year-old Albert Einstein presented the famous Equation of General Relativity, preceding the great mathematician David Hilbert by a few days and formulating a new theory of gravitation capable of upsetting the very concepts of Space and Time.Exactly 100…
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Nueva España, present-day Mexico, was in the seventeenth century an extraordinary meeting point of very different cultures and traditions, that of the Spanish and Portuguese colonizers, that of the American Indians, and that of the slaves brought in droves from Africa. This state of affairs produced a most peculiar combination of languages, music, rhythms, instruments,…
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“Drugs, Misuse and Addiction” and “The Internet the Dangerous Friend.” City of Salerno – City Hall – Hall of the Banner The Dafni and Cloe series returns to Salerno: in the Hall of the Gonfalone at the City Palace, the presentation of the first two volumes that together tell of dangerous addictions, borderline situations for…
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III. Vol. of the Daphnis and Chloé series City of Salerno – City Palace – Gonfalone Hall In recent years, the number of boys and girls dropping out of school in Italy has increased. Our idea is that behind dropping out of school there is a strong malaise that leads to an undoing that kids…
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A text that with an innovative approach helps children understand the causes of a malaise that mysteriously appears and which they think they control through substance use. Altering their feelings, in order not to experience the pain resulting from disappointing human relationships, they seek well-being in ephemeral and sometimes deadly paradises. The presentation of the…
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In September 2016, a new presentation of the book Bambini Vittime, published by Liguori Editore in Naples, is held at a library in Rome. In the central Nelson Mandela Library, directed by Alessandra Langellotti, the authors of the volume talk with Cristina Andrizzi, a medical doctor specializing in clinical psychology and psychotherapist, and Gabriella Terenzi,…
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