Rome, "Tombeau pour Mr Pasolini", concert-tribute by lutenist Simone Vallerotonda at the National Museum of Musical Instruments

On 2 November, on the occasion of the centenary of the birth and on the day of the death of Pier Paolo Pasolini, free concert and visit to the Museum

National Museum of Musical Instruments

It was held on 2 November '22
At 18:00

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And entities November 2022

To the National Museum of Musical Instruments of Rome, on the occasion of the centenary of the birth and on the day of the death of Pier Paolo Pasolini, on November 2 (6 pm) the lutenist Simone Vallerotonda presents his concert in homage to the great poet, "to never forget".

Born in Rome in 1983, Simone Vallerotonda he is one of the most successful Italian lutenists of his generation. Virtuoso nationally and internationally known, he has recorded his recent CD Meditation in the Council Chamber of Palazzo Orsini di Bomarzo (VT) in that area of upper Lazio so dear to the Friulian poet and elected by him as his home in the last years of his life.

Tombeau pour Mr Pasolini is the title of the concert in memoriam, inspired by the homonymous compositions of the French Baroque, refined funeral eulogies in music: "They are dialogues and sound monologues, meditations written with notes instead of words [...] The reflection on death expressed with the tombeau it is the most intimate and profound form, invented by an extraordinary circle of French lutenists of the seventeenth century "comments Simone Vallerotonda, who during the evening will propose music by Charles Mouton, Robert de Visée, Valentin Strobel, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Jacques Gallot, Germain Pinel.
The recital consists of four parts dedicated to the four seasons, with a selection of songs that aims - as the musician said - to create a dialogue with Pasolini's poetic work. A dialogue that will be further underlined by the projection of images taken from his films.

Following a temporal thread linked to Pasolini's life, before this event Simone Vallerotonda brought his homage to the poet to Stockholm, with a concert held on October 24 at theItalian Institute of Culture. And Pasolini was a guest of the Institute in Stockholm on the evening of October 28, 1975 to present the Swedish translation of "Gramsci's Ashes", a few days before being assassinated.

Meditate with sounds
Of all the music for lute, I have always considered that of the French lutenists of the 1600s as unique, different from all the others. Its implying an unwritten rhythm, inégalité, and its refined vocabulary of ornamentation, cover it with an intimidated charm. The coding required by the prélude non mesuré places the performer in a direct dialogue with the author, breaking the wall of the centuries that separate them. Its elitist character shines through in pieces often constructed with few notes, where the relationships between the sounds are raised to a metaphysical level, but breaking the veil of mystery, we find all the "feeling" of modern man. The sensation is that of being suspended, clinging to clouds of sound that vanish as soon as they are created. They are dialogues and sound monologues, they are meditations written with notes instead of words, on life in all its facets: the beauty of a woman, the changing variety of man's moods, from melancholy, to pride, to sweetness, the reflection on death expressed with the tombeau, the most intimate and profound form invented by this exclusive circle of lutenists. And as in the thousand folds of the unspoken and the imagined, this music forces the performer to look in the mirror and outside of himself and "speak".
Simone Vallerotonda

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The entrance to the concert and the visit to the Museum are free (subject to availability).