The Knight and time
When I finished reading Don Quixote, still very young, and after my father had talked to me, for many years, about his transcendent encounter with this novel, not only I had no plans to become a singer, but I never would have imagined that one day I would have the...
80 km away from Bach
There is no sound that follows us coming from the invisible stomach of an elevator because it has not been invented yet; the railways of all trains in the world are still sleeping on the bowels of where, someday, they will be called to the forge and the air smells of...
Mahler in the snow
The first snowfall that laid on Vienna on 2003 was a complete surprise, at two in the morning on a day that had not been particularly cold. I was walking at that hour, like other nights, wandering around the halls of my house, looking for my slippers, listening to the...
The 10th symphony of Beethoven
The way a solo artist is finally convinced, in case he had any doubts, that he is, precisely that, a guy who remains alone just doing what he is doing: approaching Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Maybe he has a choir of about 80 people that are around 15 meters away...
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