L’aria della sera
In the Boschi couple's flat
The piano was not a bourgeois ornament but an important element in the life of the house. For years, the polished Bechstein concert piano in the large corner drawing room was the focal point of evening gatherings, attended by artists whose paintings contributed to the expansion of the collection. When the house was reopened to the public, relocating a selection of the most important works of art there, the Boschi-Di Stefano Foundation decided to promote a number of invitation-only concerts, which are presented here.
These are concerts that on the one hand are intended to bring the house to life, as if it were still inhabited by Antonio and Marieda Boschi; on the other – as Prof. Degrada’s introduction puts it best – they are intended to suggest relationships and correspondences between music and the figurative arts in the period in which the collection was formed, through twentieth-century chamber music of different origins and genres. The title of the series “L’aria della sera” refers to a verse by Baudelaire (“Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir”) that gives the title to a prelude by Debussy presented in the fourth concert.
Ezio Antonini
