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PRINTED MATTER | COLLATERAL DAMAGE: LUIGI DALLAPICCOLA'S MUSICAL INNOVATION CAUGHT BETWEEN TYRANNY AND IDEOLOGY
Alessandro Cassin
With a riveting concert performance of Luigi Dallapiccola's Il Prigioniero, Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic have taken a step towards introducing American audiences to one of the forgotten masterpieces of this Italian iconoclastic composer. To this day not many people on this side of the Atlantic are familiar with Dallapiccola's work, a composer who made dodecaphonic music palatable to the unconvinced.
During the 1920's and 30's music lovers throughout Europe were deeply divided between those who embraced and those who rejected twelve-tone music. Opera audiences in particular were baffled by Alban Berg's Lulu (1922) and Wozzeck (1937). To many, dodecaphonic music had squeezed out tonality and lyricism, turning it into something cold and cerebral. Among his contemporaries who adopted Arnold Schoenberg's method of composing, Dallapiccola was unique for his lavish melodic sense. However, trapped in the repressive cultural provincialism of Mussolini's Italy, Dallpiccola's contribution to the dodecaphonic debate went unnoticed. Read |
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PROGRAM SUSAN ZUCCOTTI'S P�RE MARIE BENO�T AND JEWISH RESCUE
September 24 | 6:00 pm NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marim� | 24 West 12th Street, New York The program is free and no reservation is requiredSusan Zuccotti in conversation with Stefano Albertini A new book by Susan Zuccotti explores the life and thought of P�re Marie Beno�t, a courageous French Capuchin priest who helped Jews in France and Italy during the Holocaust.
Who was this extraordinary priest and how did he become adept at hiding Jews, providing them with false papers, and helping them to elude their persecutors? From monasteries first in Marseille and later in Rome, P�re Marie-Beno�t worked with Jewish co-conspirators to build remarkably effective Jewish-Christian rescue networks. Acting independently without Vatican support but with help from some priests, nuns, and local citizens, he and his friends persisted in their clandestine work until the Allies liberated Rome. After the conflict, P�re Marie-Beno�t maintained his wartime Jewish friendships and devoted the rest of his life to Jewish-Christian reconciliation. Papal officials viewed both activities unfavorably until after the Second Vatican Council. Read
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QUEST ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN SEEKING, BUILDING AND REPRESENTING PEACE
The 5th issue of Quest, edited by Marcella Simoni, features ten papers on the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Rather than focusing the so-called "hundred years war of the Middle East" through the lens of opposed nationalisms, questioned borders and contested land, ethnicity or citizenship issues, it examines the theoretical approaches and practical experiments of coexistence Israelis and Palestinians have devised from the 1930s to the present. Read
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NEWS THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY JEWISH DOCUMENTATION IN MILAN WILL LEAD A RESEARCH COMMISSION ON FIUME (1938-1945) AND GIOVANNI PALATUCCI
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PRESS THE RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN
Eric Pfanner, The New York Times
As a European proposal to bolster digital privacy safeguards faces intense lobbying from Silicon Valley and other powerful groups in Brussels, an obscure but committed group has joined in the campaign to keep personal data flourishing online. [...] But a group of French archivists, the people whose job it is to keep society's records, is asking: What about our collective right to keep a record even of some things that others might prefer to forget? Read
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A Nation Collapses: September 1943, Elena Agarossi, CUP, 2000
Li hanno portati via, Umberto Gentiloni, Stefano Palermo, Gangemi 2012
October 16, 1943: Eight Jew, Giacomo Debenedetti, NSUP, 2001
Under His Very Windows, Susan Zuccotti, Yale University Press, 2000
The Holocaust and the Book, Jonathan Rose, UMP, 2008
From Fascism to Democracy: Culture and Politics in the Italian Election of 1948. Robert Ventresca, UTP 2004The Missing Italian Nuremberg, Michele Battini, Palgrave, 2007
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THANKS
Centro Primo Levi thanks its readers, audience, contributors and main supporters:
Cahnman Foundation, Viterbi Family Foundation, Peter S. Kalikow
Dr. Claude Ghez, David Berg Foundation, John Elkann, Exor, Fairholme Foundation, Charles Hallac & Sarah Keil Wolf, Jeffrey Keil & Danielle Pinet, Marian and Jacob K. Javits Foundation, Andrew Sabin, Lily Safra, Joseph S. & Diane H. Steinberg Charitable Trust, Ezra Zilka
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