{"id":253,"date":"2019-03-10T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hacktrax.co.uk\/?p=253"},"modified":"2019-06-27T20:35:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T19:35:19","slug":"greetings-from-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hacktrax.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/03\/10\/greetings-from-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Greetings from Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marco Lo Muscio and I had a very warm reception from the audience at Friday night\u2019s concert at the beautiful cathedral in Teramo, Italy. It was sobering to see the reconstruction work still going on to the main tower following the 2009 L\u2019Aquila earthquake which affected so much of this region.<\/p>\n

Marco drew some amazing sounds from the organ, especially some antiphonal effects giving a real surround sound experience.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day it was wonderful to return to Cerqueto with our hosts, Angelo\u00a0 & Guiseppe Mastrodascio; and to meet again Battista Mazzetta and other friends from the Nativity Presentation. After a traditional lunch in their village in the mountains, we managed a quick a tour of their Museo della Cultura Pastorale del Grand Sasso.\u00a0 It included artefacts used by local shepherds including a flute made out of a sheep\u2019s bone – a fascinating ancient instrument, though I\u2019m not sure I would want to attempt any of the Mozart Concertos on it.<\/p>\n

It was heartening to see that there was a small room set aside for regular worship, as the local church had been rendered unsafe following the earthquake. This had also affected the tholas, a traditional shepherd hut built with dry stone, which Angelo helped to rebuild last summer.<\/p>\n

After the concert (and usual amazing Italian food!) we were escorted back to our hotel by Angelo and Battista, who didn\u2019t need much prompting to produce his beloved harmonica and serenade us as we marched along to \u201cHere comes the bride\u201d. Another night to remember\u2026<\/p>\n

This evening Marco and I will be performing a more piano based programme as part of the \u201cCamera Musicale Romana\u201d concert series at the Sala dell\u2019Immacolata.<\/p>\n

Looking forward to catching up with our old \u201cPlaying the History\u201d friends, Carlo and Chiara.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Playing in Teramo Cathedral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Teramo Cathedral, work still going to make the tower safe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The walkway down to the Cathedral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
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John admiring the bone flute<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>
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Some of the ancient flutes on display<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>
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Angelo showing Katrin the Tholas he helped to rebuild<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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It was great to return to Cerqueto, Italy – the scene of the amazing Nativity presentation that took place on Boxing Day, and to see the village in daylight…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacktrax.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacktrax.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacktrax.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacktrax.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacktrax.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/hacktrax.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/hacktrax.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacktrax.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacktrax.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacktrax.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacktrax.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}