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https://lnkd.in/e-swp5Kp This is it! 🎵 I am so thrilled to share with you my last work for orchestra, Shores (working title: "Longing For Belonging"), conducted by Erin Bodnar. I want to thank the Mostly Modern Festival for choosing my work and giving me this tremendous opportunity to make my music happen - it's more rare than you could imagine! The piece has a suffered story. If you want to know more about it, here's an extract of the program notes. "It all started with “The Island” - a long time ago, probably during the pandemic in 2020, as a musical theater piece [...] meant to be based on a dialogue by Cesare Pavese, part of the book “Dialoghi con Leucò”. I remember reading this book and that “The Island” dialogue in particular, and getting so emotionally involved. It was about the story between Odysseus and Calypso, in a sort of alternative ending of the Odyssey where the protagonist decides not to come back home, but stay on the island with Calypso, because - freely paraphrasing her words from the book: It's just an island, what difference does it make where you decide to lie down and rest your head? And even if you eventually manage to come back to Ithaca, will you even be able to recognize your own houses after 20 years? And the people? Some of them will certainly be understanding, but will you ever be able to share what you have seen and done? You will feel more alone than in the sea. At the time, I found it interesting for the implications of the piece: it was full of insights about what it means to be isolated, and what is the meaning of travel and returning home. It was, as I said, during the pandemic, so of course, the theme was also resonating with the current situation in my life where I was in Germany and couldn’t come back home to Italy. It was a tough time in my life, I was scared for my loved ones - I remember having nightmares every single night. Anyway, the project evolved, but I never actually managed to make it an opera: not only because of the lack of funding, but also - to be honest - because the dialogue was so full and rich of intellectual interest that I found it difficult to transpose it into a libretto to be sung and not really “understood”.

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It's so daunting leading an organisation – of any scale. In pitches and discussions, the topic of marketing is tabled a lot. For a company 4 years in, we really should be reviewing our marketing strategy to "put ourselves" out there. The sentiment is great, but the reality is a double-edge sword when you're the one making the decision on where to allot your human and monetary capital, along with available resources within a limited timeframe. Do you focus on the integrity of building the product or do you sell fluff in an attempt to lure in numbers? And at the end of the day, what numbers matter more? The marketing bump or the value of goods sold? Running an internal small outfit while leveraging on the strength of our partners have led us to building a culture that is inclusive, actively thinking, and open. In preserving this culture, one of the principles we practice is to prioritise what is important for the overall and in the long run. It takes time to groom the next generation of creatives, they are not sufficiently developed fresh out of school to perform at high stakes without guidance. Marketing effectively requires knowledge and market sensitivity, both of which can only be gained through the guidance of a senior. For us, we prioritise the transference of our senior's skills to juniors so that they can independently run projects under our banner. At XZV Studio, we started succession planning before our office doors opened and that will remain a law of establishment in our operation. In that, always product first. But in the interim while we have a spare minute between our actual work and marketing persona, here's a Mid-Autumn greeting from our office to your outfits. Wishing everyone great harvest in the coming years ahead. (We really do forget the day of the week, let alone creating social media artwork! But yes, we shall try our best to share more and make a habit out of it.)

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This is such an important article about the state of affairs for Twin Cities' arts and cultural organizations. Making sure it doesn't get overlooked as we digest our turkey and play boardgames with family this holiday weekend. https://lnkd.in/gw-Jt-gU