Welcome message from our President

Our history, without painting, music, literature and artistic expressions in general, would not have had a social sense. Man has always tried to leave a trace of his presence, precisely with art, documenting what has led us to read, today, an infinite book that binds past, present and future.

For this reason, exactly two centuries after the death of Antonio Canova, Italian Brass Week remembers him, because remembering Canova and the period in which he lived: he, surrounded by the Napoleonic wars and the cholera epidemic, wanted to document us through his sensitivity, and its expressive memory represents exactly what today, in a repetitive and mechanical cycle that is called the evolution of humanity.

Just as we cannot help but remember our President Dale Clevenger who, with his death, left us the determination necessary to transmit an important message to the new generations: past history is the basis for being the present history and for building the future story.

"The other is always infinitely less important than the self, but it is the others who make history", said Pier Paolo Pasolini. With Arnaldo De Felice's composition dedicated to the centenary of the artist's birth, we want to remember these great artists.

Luca Benucci, president and artistic director