ILMC Foundation hosted by ARCHIVISSIMA

The ILMC Foundation and its research activities, at the initiative of the State Archives of Bari, were among the protagonists of the ARCHIVISSIMA 24 event. The video "Future Memories - La letteratura musicale concentrationzionaria" (Future Memories - Concentration Camp Music Literature) is available on the Archivissima.it website ( https://encr.pw/rv8Ow ) , which summarizes Francesco Lotoro's three decades of research into concentration camp music. Enjoy!

The 2024 edition of ARCHIVISSIMA is dedicated to the passions that made the evolution of human history possible. 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗶 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗶 has dedicated his participation to one of man's greatest passions, music, the music that continues to resonate even inside the concentration camps of the Nazi-Fascist era.

The project 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 - 𝐋𝐚 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚 carried out by the Foundation Institute of Musical Literature Concentrationaria of the master 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐨 𝐋𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐨, with the support of our institute fits impeccably into the initiative of Very archived .

The music produced in the concentration camps, in the midst of all that pain, gave thousands of people the strength to carry on in one of the darkest moments in human history, demonstrating how essential passion is to human survival.

In thirty-five years of research, the Institute of Musical Literature of the Concentration Camp in Barletta has recovered thousands of scores, hundreds of hours of recordings of survivors and their children, and hundreds of musical works written in captivity on unimaginable media. Musical and lyrical texts reconstructed from nearly illegible handwriting.

Thanks to the passion and tireless commitment of maestro Francesco Lotoro and his collaborators, the institute is undertaking an immense task of inventorying material of unparalleled historical and artistic value.

The 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐨 𝐝𝐢 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐢 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐢 and the Archival and Bibliographic Superintendency of Puglia together want to contribute to giving all this literature a home, so that this music can be studied, explored and promoted.