Last night I heard the presentation of the new Parco della Musica program. It seemed to me like a somewhat provincial program, completely lacking any event that combines quality and novelty in the same evening.
There will be Sakamoto, Einaudi, Glass, Alva Noto, and ... Sora Cesira.
In short, the usual suspects of show business from recent decades, plus a little something for the low-class crowd. With a hint of residual modesty: for Einaudi, evidently considered a young debutant, it was deemed necessary to seek a pedigree in his work as Berio's assistant.
Any provincial festival manages to be more original, more proactive; the capital, on the other hand, presents itself with a collection of mid-century modernism, not too pop and not too "dissonant", plus a few DJs...
If this is the face with which the capital presents itself, if these are the characterizing cultural events, the calling card of a nation, how much trust can be given to the rest of the country?
fortunately there is "Taste of Roma" the "largest Restaurant Festival in the world...."....so if we have a pajata and some nervetti and we are at peace!!!!!!
