More than an hour of contemporary music 'sailing freely in the sea' with a heartfelt tribute to the victims of the flooding in Valencia: this was the format of the special concert given last night by the Sardinian musician Paolo Angeli in Madrid, at the National Archaeological Museum (Man), in conjunction with an exhibition on the nuragic-megalithic sculpture of the Manneddu Boxer, from the archaeological site of Mont'e Prama.
"The Mediterranean Sea is one, the water that touches Palestine, Cagliari, Valencia, where I live, or Barcelona, and that goes round and comes to the Balkans, to Greece, to Istanbul, is the same water, the one that unites us as Mediterranean peoples," Angeli himself said at the opening of the evening, held in the museum's auditorium. "My intention is to draw, with music, a Mediterranean of peace, which is what we need today," he added before kicking off the performance accompanied by his prepared Sardinian guitar.
Also present at the event was the Italian ambassador to Spain, Giuseppe Buccino Grimaldi. "Angeli is both a maestro rooted in his territory and a courageous experimenter, who draws on his profound knowledge of Sardinian music to create a timeless music," said the diplomat. "His success has reached not only Europe, but the whole world.
The Madrid exhibition on the 'Boxer', which will remain open until next 12 January, was organised thanks to the collaboration of the Italian Embassy in Spain with the Italian and Spanish Ministries of Culture, the Man, the Mont'e Prama Foundation and the Italian Cultural Institute in Madrid.
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