He no longer knows very well what initially pushed him to become interested in the subject.
We are at the end of the 1980s. Francesco Lotoro is a young Italian pianist.
He wanted to expand his repertoire and, during his research, came across pieces written during the Shoah.
Immediately, dizziness.
The feeling of “walking on the tip of Everest”.
It became his life's quest, his mission.
Since then, he has traveled Europe to find scores composed by prisoners in concentration camps and ghettos from 1933. Thanks to this work, this musician and composer from Puglia has collected more than 10,000 scores and recorded 27 albums from of these.
This Thursday, January 25, he will be in concert at UNESCO headquarters in Paris to perform several of these pieces (some previously unreleased), during the International Day dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
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“I started by being interested in music written by Jewish prisoners, but I quickly understood that I could not separate music written in captivity by social, religious or political profiles.
Because music is a universal language, he tells us by telephone, preparing to board a plane for Paris, for the performance.
After more than thirty years of research, I have got my hands on masterpieces, repertoires that I would never have imagined.
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