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Designing for Networked Community Resilience
2016
Abstract Communities have been described to be at the heart of the preparedness for and the response to disasters. The increasing connectedness has made communities more vulnerable for their dependence on a complex network of critical infrastructures. At the same time, this very connectedness has the potential to enable communities to self-organise, engage, and connect with other communities to improve their resilience. While the pathway to more resilience is promising and has many advocates, the response to crises and disasters, time and again reveals the challenges related to (i) ad-hoc switching from preparedness to response; (ii) ad-hoc connecting professional responders, communities, v…
The Samjiyon Orchestra as a North Korean Means for Gender Based Cultural Diplomacy
2020
In 2018 it appeared that a peace process on the Korean Peninsula had got underway. Lots of publicity was produced on inter-Korean relations and many types of messages and diplomatic actors started to move across the border with South Korea. One important element in this process was cultural diplomacy, conducted partly by athletes and cheering squads during the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games, and partly by musical ensembles. Selection of the Samjiyon Orchestra for the Pyeongchang events sheds light on the kind of image the North Korean leadership wanted to display of the country on the international stage. This article analyses the characteristics of the orchestra, where it came from, and …
La "Messa da Requiem" di Giuseppe Verdi fra sacro e profano. Un allestimento ottocentesco attraverso le carte del Fondo Usiglio
2010
Attraverso la ricostruzione di un allestimento della "Messa da Requiem" di Giuseppe Verdi al Duomo di Orvieto nel 1891, l'articolo riflette sui metodi di produzione dello spettacolo, mostrando come, nonostante il contesto sacro, la macchina gestionale fosse quella tipica dell'industria operistica coeva, con un ruolo di primissimo piano esercitato dal direttore d'orchestra, Emilio Usiglio.
Digital Storytelling Project as a Way to Engage Students in Twenty-First Century Skills Learning
2020
[EN] This paper is focused on the implications of a collaborative digital storytelling project on student engagement in the higher education context. The empirical study is conducted with an interdisciplinary group of bachelor students in a Nordic University (N = 22) and a university in Southern Europe (N = 21), and the data are collected through an online student survey. The results demonstrate that the digital storytelling project supported students’ behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement. In general, the students had positive emotional experiences with the project. This assignment format was found less stressful than a frontal presentation in the classroom, allowing the students…
Arturo Toscanini
2018
Thanks to the new media, i.e., record, radio and TV, Arturo Toscanini was the first conductor known by every kind of public in the world. The essay examines Toscanini’s art of conducting in five crucial issues. The foundation of a supranational repertoire of orchestral music enclosing ancient, modern and contemporaneous authors (from Corelli to Strawinsky). The reform of opera house and the paths of maestro in re-thinking the Italian opera after a deep study of Richard Wagner’s Musikdrama. The impressive use of memory in view of a close control of the orchestra (he conducted by heart over 600 scores). The personal, inelegant but effective gesture, by which Toscanini fascinated orchestras in…
La dirección orquestal y su dimensión social: hacia la inclusión de la mujer
2022
Por influencia de las teorías freudianas suele decirse que, en el contexto de una orquesta, la batuta representa la virilidad, al ser un elemento usado única y exclusivamente por quien ostenta el liderazgo de aquella. El director, batuta en mano, se transforma en un mediador entre el conjunto musical, la obra y el público. Sin embargo, esta analogía únicamente funciona a nivel de recepción musical y social cuando estamos ante un líder varón. El presente artículo analiza con perspectiva de género el rol del director de orquesta partiendo de su origen, como figura que surge en el siglo XIX y evoluciona hasta la actualidad. En concreto se exponen los resultados de una investigación cuyo objeti…
“Mariani, Angelo”
2008
Angelo Mariani fu il primo direttore d'orchestra italiano in senso moderno,ossia il primo a unire in sé le due figura di "primo violino" e "maestro concertatore". La presente voce ricostruisce la sua biografia e ripercorre gli aspetti principali della sua attività direttoriale, a cominciare dal rapporto con Giuseppe Verdi
Musculoskeletal pain in professional symphony orchestra musicians
2021
Background: A musician’s many years of professional experience may contribute to the development of pain and musculoskeletal disorders. There are a few studies in Poland on gender differences in musculoskeletal pain among adult professional musicians. Aim of the study: This study aimed to assess and compare pain in Polish women and men who are professional musicians, as well as to analyze the relationships between the intensity and frequency of pain and the time spent playing each week and the experience of playing the instrument in years. Material and methods: Sixty professional musicians were examined (26 men and 34 women). Pain intensity was assessed using the visual analog scale (VAS). …
Pierre Boulez: del temps de les utopies
2014
Seria certament difícil pensar avui la història de la música occidental de la segona meitat del segle xx sense la figura de Pierre Boulez. Qualsevol temptativa de revisió històrica que evités esmentar-lo hauria d’aparcar per força tot un capítol de la creació musical recent. Ho va demostrar Célestin Deliège a través dels seus escrits, i no sense raó. Altres hi han vist, en canvi, la institucionalització unívoca de l’avantguarda musical i l’acumulació d’un poder que s’ha exercit des d’una mena de dictadura estètica. Sigui com sigui, el cert és que Boulez ha sabut reunir les figures de compositor, intèrpret, pedagog i gestor cultural alhora que les dotava d’una unitat i d’una coherència incon…
Prima di Toscanini: il direttore-organizzatore nel secondo Ottocento operistico italiano
2019
È noto che durante la sua prima esperienza ai vertici della Scala, Toscanini impresse una svolta artistica epocale all’istituzione milanese. Nel corso di sette stagioni comprese fra il 1898 e il 1908 il musicista coniugò alle mansioni di direttore d’orchestra quelle di direttore artistico: ciò gli permise di esercitare un potere ampissimo, che andava dalla scelta del repertorio e degli organici all’adozione di misure volte a riformulare le abitudini di fruizione dello spettacolo. Meno noto è il fatto che quella rivestita da Toscanini era una carica tutt’altro che inedita nel sistema produttivo dei teatri d’opera italiani. Attraverso l’analisi di fonti epistolari conservate nell’Archivio Sto…