When 27-year-old Ludwig Van Beethoven composedSonata Op. 7 No. 4 in 1797, the first “grand sonata” in 4 movements, he had not yet composed the first symphony, but the orchestra is clearly present from the chords of the first movement’s entrance. Op. 10 No. 3 opens with a Presto of great agility. Contrast then Il…
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At a time when being a freelance artist was arduous even for a man, it was even unthinkable for a woman. The Parsifal Piano Trio in its splendid program for the Domenica Classica 2021-2022 series features works by two outstanding female composers who worked in the second half of the 1800s and the early 20th…
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A concert lecture in honor of the great Polish scientist Marie Curie. Madame Curie’s human and scientific journey, the great love affair with Pierre, and the extraordinary determination that led her to the chair of Physics at the Sorbonne University and then to being awarded two Nobel Prizes, the only woman to have received such…
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In the group photo exhibition “Aisthesis – Perception through the Senses,” held at the cozy Vaccheria Nardi Library of the City of Rome from June 24 to July 7, 2017, the Association for the first time promoted a photo exhibition with images created by its members. Antonella Di Gianfelice, Ludovica Iuè, Antonino Scordo and Marco…
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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…
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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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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 years later, the Sound…
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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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