Francesco Lotoro presents his new book in Sammichele di Bari.

Locandina dell'evento

As part of the initiatives for Holocaust Remembrance Day , tomorrow in Sammichele di Bari, at 5.00 pm , in the Sala degli Affreschi of Palazzo Pinto (P.zza Netti), Maestro Francesco Lotoro, pianist and piano teacher at the Piccinni Conservatory of Bari, presents his latest book "Manifesto for a Musical Humanism. Concentrationary Musical Literature, Research and Visions, Cittadella di Barletta" (ILMC Edizioni) .

Introduced by a preface by semiologist Ugo Volli (formerly Professor of Text Semiotics at the University of Turin), the book offers a profoundly alternative reading of the most dramatic events of the twentieth century, approaching them from a historical and humanistic rather than political perspective: ghettos, concentration camps, and gulags as great powerhouses of intellect and heart, laboratories of a new Vitruvian Man; the perspective is that of concentration camp music, created in conditions of deprivation of fundamental human rights from the opening of the Dachau concentration camp to Stalin's death. In addressing this theme, the author invites us to rethink a strongly anthropocentric Europe in which culture and art in general are drivers of social well-being and the economy.

The volume can be purchased by requesting it from our Foundation at info@fondazioneilmc.it