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Anyway, the Italian health situation is good up to the point of waste regarding assistance, even though there are often long lines at the emergency room and endless waiting lists for MRIs, etc. The real problem is the inadequacy of the facilities, often dilapidated, and the lack of equipment (often two to three generations old) both quantitatively and qualitatively. Excellent review.

IRIDE, the House of Jazz in Rome, exists thanks to Veltroni, and recently there was also the Film Festival, for example. Why do you say "no music no cinema"? As for "no football no politics," I don't understand what you mean. There's more than enough football to be a pain in the ass, it would be better if it disappeared! The real issue in Rome remains transportation and the potholes in the streets... but when it comes to culture, events, and festivals, Veltroni has done a lot! Who cares if he’s from the right or the left...

I'm glad you liked it! Chopin is my all-time favorite musician, I recommend you get close to his music as soon as possible; don't think of difficult, boring, cerebral stuff, it's the exact opposite! Did you hear the latest? Happypippo and I have laid down our arms... who knows, we might even become friends after all those dismemberments ;)

But wasn't it Gilmour singing on Shine? And then I have the impression that the rest of the group didn’t really share all this devotion towards Barrett... I think it was a bit of a publicity stunt, but maybe I'm mistaken. An album that I would have given 10 to ten years ago, today with a "cool head" I give 4. A decent review.

But why not Thelonious Monk-Charlie Haden-Elvin Jones? And maybe add Wayne Shorter on sax... what an amazing group that would have been! Of course, if it lasted more than a week :) Bòn uàiàdg

It's not ugly at all, and it exudes a lot of passion! It's fine as it is... and frankly, the technicalities can sometimes be excessive. Of course, you know the piano solos well, so I feel inclined to recommend listening to the box set of the trio at the Blue Note from '94 (which I just recently reviewed).

Great charliemingus! GoUldberg variations version '81 are superlative...Chopin can’t betray you, don’t worry! Polonaises, Nocturnes, Etudes, and Preludes, Ballades...just do a bit as you see fit.

Even clearer is your point of view! Anyway, I find the studies and the Polish pieces he recorded in the seventies to be very good. I also wrote a review that just came out specifically about the Polish pieces; maybe you could read it and have a laugh ;). I’d like to point out, in case you don't know him, a new promise of Pianism with a capital P: Rafal Blechacz, a Polish pianist born in '85 who recently won the Chopin competition held every five years in Warsaw. I have a "pirate" CD that a pianist friend of mine passed on to me, containing his performance at that competition. A superlative purity of sound, a search for timbre, and an enhancement of the "micro melodic cells" (I wouldn’t know what else to call them) that I have NEVER heard in Chopin. And even in the fortissimos, he avoids hammering the keys like Pollini sometimes does. I know he will hold a concert in Bologna in February; I'm considering it... perhaps I'll go with my friend. This time I’m voting!

I missed the concert because of a woman... I could have eaten my hands (and she partially made up for it), but now I'm not sure if I despaired for nothing. I much prefer Pollini's work from the seventies, but it would have been my first time at one of his concerts, and I didn't want to miss it! I don't vote because I wasn't there. However, it's well written and shows the preparation of a musician!

Thinking that I was sure of the opposite: since comò, sarà, Perù, Forlì all have the accent this way, I assumed that "perchè" was also written with the same accent. And so I mistakenly deduced that "é" was written like this...anyway..pinzellacchere! Talk to you soon (I hope next time you'll talk about music :))