Hello everyone, yesterday La Stampa of Turin has published the response to Giovanni Allevi Uto Ughi. Since I put the article in the master Uto Ughi, it seems correct to me also that of the master Giovanni Allevi. And then I just broke! Peace and good
"Dear Ughi, she defends
only her chastity "
replication Allevi the violinist:" From him a blind and violent attack "by Giovanni Allevi
ROME
I came from the Senate at 15.30, with a red tie in his pocket. I gave it a child, who came with his parents to attend the concert, "Keep it John, is yours. I put it to you, for the first time in my life." Outside, to my great surprise, I found a large crowd gathered in front Palazzo Madama, to greet me and the symphonic orchestra player. Here, Maestro Ughi, these are the indelible images that will remain written in my heart, inseparably linked to that concert. Now, on this table, there a crumpled piece of paper with an autograph on. Certainly, in recent years I have had the honor to sign so many. But what I have here with me, I wanted myself. It is the only autograph I ever asked an artist. That evening a decade ago, I returned to my studio to a packed room of Verdi Conservatory in Milan, with that piece of paper in his pocket, like a jewel. It was not easy to reach even the artist's dressing room for a nobody like me, an anonymous student in Composition. I had no influential friends, barely reached the end of the month, they face great sacrifices to graduate in composition and concert ticket I had paid. But now I had the autograph of one of the most talented violinists in the world: you, Maestro Ughi.
How could he do this to me? How did he spit on me so much poison, the very day of Christmas Eve? Do you feel offended, and for what? How does a music to attack, if it is written and played with all your soul? Instrumental music without words? According to her, I would not be worthy of being admitted to the Conservatory. In fact I have spent my best years preparing to become, with care, commitment and passion, a composer of contemporary music. They graduated in piano with 10/10. Graduated with honors in composition. I posted my musical scores. I'm a Doctor of Philosophy, graduated with honors and I published my writings. The world of classical music is sick. She is one of the few who managed to live as a protagonist, but maybe not imagine what it's like studying a musical instrument for years and years to come, yes and no, to teach in a private school.
And so, to divide the pie of power in music are few, a caste, engaged in perpetrating his own conception of art and their lives. It is made up of a lobby of power protectors and protected, hidden in the rooms of buildings inaccessible to many. Caste shows the same warning: "People are ignorant, we are the true keepers of culture." But in the halls of the Conservatory, by analyzing the scores of the greats of the past, and comforted by the thought of Hegel's Phenomenology, I gained the conviction that every age is entitled to his music. Why force the public of our time to deal only works conceived centuries ago, and thus losing the opportunity to create a new music, true expression of our times, it is a rigorous development of the European classical tradition? The music called "contemporary" twelve-tone and atonal, in any case is no longer such, because expression of lacerations that agitated Europe in days gone by. Here then is my visionary project. You need a creative effort to the mountain, rather than insisting only on musical education, laying the foundations for a new contemporary music, fetching the deep contact with people. I tried this with my scores and my writings. It was necessary.
It took another ten years, more than twenty studies, and the result, not at all obvious, was explosive: the public, especially young, came to my concerts, with solo piano or symphony orchestra, as if they were events rock, Rome and Milan as well as Beijing, New York and Tokyo. That music speaks to the heart but her rhythmic virtuosity and above all requires a very talented performers. It is a classical music that can not be separated from the score written and rejects any contamination, with the words, images, with musical instruments and forms that are not typical of the classical tradition. Hundreds of young people who write to me, on my example, I entered the Conservatory to study an instrument or take the path of creative composition. As history teaches Aesthetics music, in all ages every new idea has struggled to assert itself, then became, paradoxically, the "rule" for posterity. What is certain is that when the new advance is always fear. As a lover of Hegel, then, I knew that the new wave of crisis would send in the old system and the caste of priests, with their followers, unable to acknowledge no paternity at me, they would have implemented a criminal As ruthless work of «Allevi crucifixion." "His success offends me ...»," The compositions are musically ...», laughable "It is a dwarf ...», but taken more seriously circulating is" Allevi advantage of the ignorance of people, through a clever marketing operation. " Far from it! My music is classical, because it uses the language of culture, whose mastery is the result of years of academic study. My music is new because it has that flavor, that feeling today, that no musician of the past could have imagined.
"Every morning when the sun rises, it starts a day that did not yet no one ever lived, "says the theologian David Maria Turoldo. Mine is not a pop, why not provide for any singer, no electric guitar and drums and does not use the oral tradition, or a simplified writing as a means of propagation. There is no plot, it is absolutely clean and pure: the people have voluntarily chosen to follow. But we must stop ignoring the people to believe "common". The audience he addressed in the eighteenth century Mozart was perhaps the most cultured of our own? Not in Italy there were many students of music as in these times. If my music had bothered, you could simply change the channel. Instead, it gave a very personal opinion, it was decided to erect a symbol of a wounded world, violent and blind.
I'm not a cocky, if anything, a dreamer, and my music, along with my aesthetic intuitions, they never wanted to offend anyone. I, unlike you, I do not hold any institutional role, I did not call any festival in my name, I do not have any power in the so-called "world music", yet you accuse me of being in a place, the heart of hundreds of thousands of people, where others would be. In the light of his words, it seems paradoxical that she is President of "Uto Ughi per youth." The great Segovia said: "Young composers have made my fortune, I will them." Instead she chose the easy way obstruction, from its acclaimed reputation. That his autograph that I have always jealously guarded after so many years for me now does not count anymore.
