Dedication:
For 10 years (from 1996 to 2005), the Autonomous Region of Valle d’Aosta and the Municipality of Aosta hosted the Italian Youth Orchestra during its summer internship, organizing the Aosta Classica festival, and promoting important collaborations with various Aosta Valley musical events and organizations, especially in the training of young and very young musicians. Considering the artistic and cultural strength of Maestro Farulli to be still current and alive, Replicante Teatro theater company and the Turin Quartet are honored to be able to dedicate this original Replicante Teatro project – The Live Zone, to him, in view of how well the cultural and human references expressed in the texts of the Romanian poetess Ruxandra Cesereanu and in the music of Dmitrij Šostakovič correspond.
Dear Piero, Your strength of ideas and action over the years, has accompanied my life and marked that of many of my musician friends and people fond of true life, the one made of sounds, music stands, scores, and notes learned by heart; of your instructive shouting, “viola, VIOLA!” during the long quartet rehearsals I was able to attend; an entire Beethoven quartet you requested as an encore (“Well done. I’ll ask you to play it again… in its entirety!”) during a concert of prepared and attentive young musicians in Aosta. I have been lucky enough to feel your company every single day, and the pleasure, even today, of meeting people with whom to talk about you, your life, and your sounds. THANKS forever. Paolo Salomone
