The Italian Cultural Institute and the Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois, as part of a series of meetings “La Piazza – Literary”, are pleased to invite you to the conference “Respighi, the voice of Rome”, hosted by Norberto Cordisco Respighi, pianist and musicologist and to the reading of an extract from the novel “Le Cascadeurs de l’amour n’ont pas droit au doublage” by the writer Martine Delvaux.
Monday March 13, 2017 at 7:00 p.m.
Maison des écrivains
3492, avenue Laval, Montréal
The conference held by Norberto Cordisco Respighi, within the OSM Italian Festival and with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal, will focus on the musical work la Trilogie Romaine (Fontaines de Rome, Pins de Rome, Fêtes Romaines) of the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936). Going through these symphonic poems, you will have the chance to catch a hint of the artistic, cultural and political environment of Rome at the beginning of the 20th century.
Within the context of the conference dedicated to the Eternal City, Martine Delvaux will present her novel Le Cascadeurs de l’amour n’ont pas droit au doublage, Héliotrope, 2012. A love story that became tragedy, this novel represents the last letter addressed to the lost man, written in Rome, before the withdrawal of the troops from the war, that had no mercy for the romantic relationship. “Notre histoire d’amour était devenue une tragédie et il n’y avait que Rome pour en accueillir les ruines. Rome où je me suis réfugiée en plein été pour m’exorciser. Rome la ville qui avait tout vu, tout connu, tout subi, le creuset de tout ce que l’humanité avait pu offrir et qu’elle pouvait encore imaginer. […]”
Norberto Cordisco Respighi is a pianist, musicologist and banker. He graduated from the Conservatory of Siena and subsequently studied at the Ecole Normale de Musique of Paris. Expert of Italian symphonic music of the 20th century , he is currently working on the first biography of Ottorino Respighi in French. At the same time, Norberto received a master’s degree in finance and strategy from the Paris Institute of Political Studies and he’s presently working for the directorate general of the BNP Paribas Group.
Martine Delvaux is a writer and professor at the Department of Literary Studies of the UQAM University, where she teaches women’s literature and feminist theory. After Les cascadeurs de l’amour n’ont pas droit au doublage, Rose amer and C’est quand le bonheur ?, Martine Delvaux pursued her restless autopsy of reality with Blanc dehors, finalist in 2016 for the Prix des libraires and for the Governor General’s Awards.
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