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"Canzoniere": the brand-new book of poems and writings about music

A true “itinerarium mentis” is Angelo Sturiale's book, in which verses are liquid, multiform, indefinite, iridescent creatures. The result is a kaleidoscopic poetics of wonder and creation “between concepts and words, between musics and sounds, between signs and gestures, and between lines and colors,” in which poetry “never plays hide-and-seek,” but, originating from a riot of “sound symmetries” and “aerial roots,” dreams of the most “beautiful” and “true” work of art, without pretenses, vacuous proclamations, and mannered adulations, whereby “These poems [...] constitute bridges for the weaknesses of the soul.” And here hovers a “butterfly's breath,” hovering above the ruins of Western civilization of which Sicily is the trivial portrait: “I will go away from the streets swallowed by asphalt, from the noisy parties, from the dogs to rant in the pink and black nights / of sunsets raped by crimes and omertà” toward a palingenesis that has the name of the East, an effective antidote against “mirrors,” “centers,” "points,” and “hysteries.” Even if the only regret will be the discidium with the archetypal idiom, the mother tongue, irreplaceable for its unrepeatable and sharp charge of sound and existential uniqueness. (Angelo Santangelo).

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“A window devoid of anthropocentrism, put there, seems to look out, but it's a matter of perspective. Yeah, because what is a window, that window? Is it a boundary, a separation, or rather a meeting point? If you stand at the window, elbows resting on the sill, do you stand inside or do you stand outside? To what landscape do you belong? Is the window aggregating or estranging? Does it envelop you or project you? Is it an input or an output? Certainly it is a metaphor, the poet's weapon par excellence. Certainly it eludes the principles for which it was built to become the point of origin of excursions indifferently directed outward as well as inward from the elevation on which it rests. There is a beyond the window, and a beyond the window. And in the middle is the window; it cannot be ignored. It makes a perfect backdrop for Pindaric, courtly, reckless flights among the most diverse vistas, whether gliding out among mountains of glowing lava, drowned in fog, old neighborhoods, Mexico and clouds, golden China, churches smelling of incense and mold, or turning inward, among bowels and memories, in the despair of not being able to share that universe with anyone. Lots of noise, a great background buzz, but no one! Except the window.” (From the Preface by Sal Costa.).

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The essay "La música escondida", by the composer Angelo Sturiale, has been published in the collective book "La belleza múltiple" (Bellaterra Editions) coordinated by Professor Lluis X. Álvarez, from the University of Oviedo, and Luis Xavier López Farjeat, from the Universidad Panamericana de México. The volume is a highly eclectic exercise in which several voices have externalised very diverse approaches and points of view that, although they seem disjointed, allow us to confirm the breadth of the reflections on art and aesthetics. The reader will find essays that keep a great distance from each other and that project diverse concerns related to the abandonment of beauty and the importance of making it reborn, or with the variety of forms in which it can be understood according to the different forms of expression and to the diverse cultural environments. The essays collected here by Llus X. lvarez, Mirian Rodrguez, Luis Feás, Adriana Clavel, Miguel Alfonso Bouhaben, Angelo Sturiale, Cristina Morales, Rubén Figaredo, Thomas Heyd, Mariana Méndez-Gallardo, Shekoufeh Mohammadi, and Mara Molina demonstrate the breadth of interests in artistic theory, art history, and art philosophy. Despite the different visions offered by each of them, some common concerns can be seen: where art is going, where art is, how to understand aesthetics and beauty, how to understand art and artistic expressions from different cultures. http://www.ed-bellaterra.com/php/llibresInfo.php?idLlibre=1331

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This book provides a series of original piano exercises specifically designed for developing hand strength and endurance. This special training is based on an ergonomic view of the position of the hand on the keys. It is conceived as an alternative piano ‘workout’ and is designed for intermediate/advanced piano students, professional pianists, and keyboardists who wish to improve their technique in all musical genres. Ergonomic hand movement is anatomically focused on spontaneous and natural configurations of hand position and finger articulation on the keyboard, without reference to musical language or style. Though they are labelled numerically, the exercises are not necessarily in order of increasing difficulty. Thus, they may be practiced in any order, according to one's personal taste or specific goals. Tempo and dynamics have been intentionally omitted from all exercises. However, results are more effective when the exercises are practiced loudly and quickly, as they focus on building muscular strength and endurance of the hand and fingers, along with the wrist and forearm.

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Angelo Sturiale, with this "Catalogue of Love", entrusts to the word variegated entities of lacerations with a tormented narration that avoids any indulgence. One descends in volutes into a precipice covered with ramifications where the scrutiny of the mind opens (submits) to that of the heart. The result is a snappy piece of writing, uncontainable but symmetrical, that shatters like a crystal into sharp facets. The form takes on that of poetic prose, disseminated with burning disguises of melancholy. Perhaps Sturiale engraves, on his own body-diary, the notes of an unrepeatable (unstoppable) paradigm of love.

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"Tempeste di te" collects a selection of poems written over a decade by the Sicilian composer and visual artist Angelo Sturiale. From music to love, from drawings to everyday life, from travels and residences around the world to reflections on emotions and feelings, these poetic writings in the form of diaries using a lyrical and passionate language, shed light on the relationship between the author and his musical and visual production, but also between his existential restlessness and Sicily.

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These conversations, held in Monterrey (Mexico) in Spanish, have been recorded, translated, and arranged by Ornella Rota. As an ideal conclusion to these reflections, the last chapter, "Discoveries", proposes a dialogue between Vincenzo Parla and Angelo Sturiale. Therefore, this book constitutes the result of writing from one side of the ocean to the other, bringing together four characters, apparently so much different from each other, but in reality accompanied by the auspices of a world in which they can coexist, respecting each other and interacting with so many different cultures, approaches, and lifestyles, "perhaps profoundly different, but all absolutely worthy of equal consideration, as long as they are willing to respect human rights," comments Vincenzo Parma. Angelo Sturiale hopes for the conquest of pluralism even in the most private spheres, for example in the idea of the family, "which remains the most important reality of life and that everyone has the right to live it according to their own models, as long as there is no violence, for any reason whatsoever." Apart from his words, Angelo Sturiale is present in the book with his drawings: essential, enigmatic, cosmopolitan, unmistakable.