VAIA: music to remember
With its music, the Haydn Orchestra recalls the natural disaster that struck the Trentino forests in autumn 2018
In October 2018, heavy rains combined with a strong hot sirocco wind brought down millions of trees, destroying tens of thousands of hectares of Alpine and coniferous forests, 42 million over an area of 41,000 hectares. The Vaia Storm, as it later became known, changed the landscape of vast areas of Trentino.
On Wednesday the 9th of August, in Colle di Tenna in the town of Alberè, the Fondazione Haydn of Bolzano and Trento will commemorate these events by bringing its orchestra to the woods, meadows and mountains that today, five years on, are slowly coming back to life.
"An extraordinary event that transforms the devastating crashing storm into music, drastically marking the passage between what has been and the rebirth that followed,' commented the Mayor of Tenna, Marco Nicolò Perinelli.
A project that seeks to create a connection with the places and elements forming the forests, as well as the musical instruments, so that they somehow become the protagonists of a shared narrative. An event dedicated to the memory and awareness of the subject of climate change and the need to reevaluate the landscape.
The, free, open-air concert will be preceded by an introduction analyzing the events from the perspective of their social, economic and environmental impacts.
Beatrice Venezi, the former Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestra della Toscana and Principal Conductor of the Orchestra Milano Classica will be conducting the Haydn Orchestra in what is acknowledged as one of Beethoven's most eccentric and enigmatic symphonies, Ludwig van Beethoven's Pastoral No.6
