(1949-2015) My 42 Days in the Civitella Ranieri Castle, by Li Yiding (translated by Li Yixiong) Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Civitella Ranieri Foundation is a non-profit corporation with offices in New York City, USA, named from the 15th century...
JACKIE MOSES falls out into the night – drifts in smoky opium dreams as his father once did. BONMOT laughs – follows on. BONMOT: Where are you going, Jackie? JACKIE walks through the square – guided by something inside — past Chinese bars, steam—gushing laundries and...
While I was at Civitella I worked on a piece called LOUD LOVE SONGS, a concerto for the percussionist Evelyn Glennie and the EOS Orchestra, which premiered in New York in 2004. One of the great things I got to do at Civitella that I don’t get to do enough of at...
My time at Civitella was inspiring and productive. How could it not be, high up in the turret studio of Barbagianni! I am currently working on a new collection of poems, and I wrote drafts of several new poems. The conversations I had with the four other poets in my...
Arriving at Civitella Ranieri, after many months when everything seemed to interfere with composing, in the first quiet hours, it was clear that I was in the right place. I immediately wrote some music for piano, part of a piece I had thought was finished. A theme for...
