Event information
Jordi
Savall (viola da gamba)
Hakan Gügör (kanun)
Dimitri Psonis (santur, lute, guitare moresc, percussion)
Pre-concert talk at 8 pm.
A Dialogue of Souls
Listening to this music of the East and the West, ingeniously collected by
Jordi Savall, is an experience out of the ordinary: an intense feeling is added
to the aesthetic emotion, that of communicating, by magic, with a reconciled
humanity.
In the second half of the 15th century, at the time of
the simultaneous death of Sepharad and al-Andalus, forty years after the
collapse of Byzantium, between the East and the West, mental and spiritual
walkways were destroyed and have never been repaired again. The Mediterranean
has ceased to be that fertile sea located at the center of our cultural
universe, to be nothing more than a battlefield and a barrier.
Today, our common sea is the place where an invisible wall stands that divides
the planet between the frightened North and the desperate South; and between
communities that have got into the habit of distrusting the “other” and keeping
away from them. The Arab world and the Jewish world seem to have forgotten
their once fruitful kinship; the Muslim East and the West of Christian
tradition seem locked in a dead-end confrontation.
To give back to our disoriented humanity some signs of
hope, we need to go well beyond a dialogue of cultures and beliefs, towards a
dialogue of souls. This is, at the beginning of the 21st century, the
irreplaceable mission of art. And this is precisely what we feel when listening
to this splendid music from different eras and lands. Suddenly we discover, or
rediscover, that civilizations that seemed distant from each other, and even
enemies, are extraordinarily close, extraordinarily complicit.
During this journey through time and space, we ask
ourselves at every moment whether the conflicts to which we are accustomed are
not deceptive, in the end, and whether the truth of men and cultures does not
rather lie in this dialogue of instruments, of chords, cadences, gestures and
breaths. A feeling of profound joy then arises in us, the fruit of an act of
faith: diversity is not necessarily a prelude to hostility; our cultures are
not separate entities closed inside watertight compartments; our world is not
condemned to endless lacerations; it can still be saved… After all, isn’t it
the aim of ART since the beginning of the human adventure?
Amin Maalouf
The special price of 25 euros is reserved for full-time residents of Perugia, Magione and the Lake Trasimeno area. Proof of residence will be required upon entry to the venue.
Event organizer:Associazione Trasimeno Music Festival
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