left alone for a moment the sadness bankruptcy and return to take care of Egyptology. In one of my previous speeches I said that I had gone to Switzerland. The reason was the opening of a show that I made for the chain of department stores Manor .
When I asked him I improved a little 'nose. After less than a minute but I changed my mind. It seemed like a good opportunity to learn a bit 'of Egypt on a lot of people who perhaps would not even think of entering a museum. Once you have all the assurances on the safety of the exhibits, what's wrong? Why do people still have to go by the culture and the culture of the people ever?
The annoying thing is that whenever I ask for a show, almost requires me to enter a sarcophagus. Possibly accompanied by a mummy. In this case, I had to work hard to deter the organizers about the second request. All it took was to say that sales of herring and smoked meats are likely to be dropped dramatically. My true motivations are a bit 'more moral, but if I express, risk of being ignored.
I thought it would be a great idea to expose the entirety, or near the Egyptian collection that the late maestro Giuseppe Sinopoli had managed to collect over the last years of his life. The findings that had managed to buy covering all major periods of Egyptian history and allow us to give a general idea of \u200b\u200bthe Pharaonic civilization. Requirement considered necessary for the realization of the exhibition by the organizers thereof.
I had known Sinopoli in 1994 and, gradually, I started attending. In truth we had met before. In Montepulciano, on the occasion of the International Art Workshop in 1979 where he had been invited to conduct. But how could he remember the guy who almost every morning, carrying the piano from a rehearsal room together with the other City workers? He could not remember, I do. More than anything else I remembered the heaviness of his piano. I do not know who might be interested, but harp is even more difficult to move. Just try it.
Joseph and his wife Silvia were also situated in Luxor in 1997. Visit the tomb of Harwa still littered with debris.
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| Giuseppe Sinopoli, his wife Silvia and the author of this blog in the Tomb of Harwa, 1997 |
was on this occasion that Joseph told me about a project close to his heart. He wanted to direct a settlement on the Egyptian concept of eternity tied to the perpetual rise of the sun. It was an idea that fascinated him a lot and we talked several times over the years to follow. We went back to discuss it in March 2001, just before I left for the spring campaign. I had to inform me what it cost to rent the temple of Medinet Habu. It was a monument that Joseph was there and loved that he wanted to organize the concert. I had just made an appointment with Sabri Abd El-Aziz, the director of antiquities of Thebes West, to present the project when I reached the sad news of the sudden death of Joseph.
In the following years I continued to attend Silvia and the children John and Mark. I put them in a part of my idea and they, too, after initially of hesitation, agreed to pay almost the entire collection for the exhibition in Switzerland.
The desire of the organizers of a sarcophagus exhibit gave me the idea to ask Maria Cristina Guidotti, director of the Egyptian Museum in Florence, a group of artifacts that reconstructs a hypothetical funeral. So I could also document the Egyptian afterlife beliefs that had so fascinated Joseph. The deal was that the organizers cover the costs for the restoration of the sarcophagus. They accepted.
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| The face of the sarcophagus of the Egyptian Museum of Florence exposed to the Manor Monthey |
The exhibition opened on February 28 last in the commercial center of Monthey in western Switzerland. The title is "The Egyptien" that reflects both the Egyptian man, but also the passion of Sinopoli for the Pharaonic civilization that made him a bit '"Egyptian". The event also will touch places of Sierre, Chavannes, Marin and Vevey and will end in July. Anyone interested in the little guide in four languages, let me know. I'll try to procure some copies.
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