Concert artist and communicator, a new social role?

Thanks for the report, Frank.

Prosseda's view is truly one of optimism and openness to the new. The example of Piano City does not seem very fitting to me: it is after all the recital invented by Liszt, merely moved from the concert hall to private homes and more intimate settings (but wasn't this already being done even before the great Lisztian piano recital!?). In the end, it's not that a different dynamic is established: instead of going to the Conservatory's Sala Verdi, the music enthusiast decides to go to some Mr. So-and-So's living room. But this is a minor thing.

The important thing - and what I agree with - is Prosseda's proposal to move music to unusual places where people do not go to listen to music. What shocks me (in a good way!) about his optimism is that music should be "administered" not as background music but, even if for just a few minutes, welcomed by silence and concentration. How beautiful that would be!... However, I feel like saying "Best of luck" (sincere, but skeptical) to anyone who truly wants to attempt such an experiment.

In the end - or rather: in principle, as Prosseda says - it would be about educating people in something as old as the world: a welcoming silence. That silence which I must be capable of both when facing a musical piece and when facing a person speaking to me.

In my opinion, it is in schools that we are wasting the best cards.

Prosseda mentions them first, yes, but a bit too much confused with public places, shopping centers, private homes... as if they were, like these others, just "anywhere" place, an "unusual" place. Instead, it is in schools, during the "most banal" music lesson (twice a week), that the best opportunity to arouse listening sensitivity and participatory silence in young people is wasted: in a word, Music Education. Instead, rather than being music education, in my experience, today the music lesson is lost behind notions of acoustics (frequencies, timbres, sound waves), classification and functional principles of musical instruments, handling a recorder... All things with their own reason, but which in my opinion, as priorities, come after the experience of listening to a musical piece.

Unfortunately, I also understand the music teachers who have to fight the battle to obtain silence. Nowadays, it is not easy at all.

P.S.

The battle (bad word) would be less hard for teachers if many more families also educated [children] on the value of silence and listening.

Now we want to move the "front" to the shopping mall?... Well.... Maybe it can help...