Today Einaudi (a big publishing house in Italy) released "Bach e Prince, vite parallele" (Bach and Prince parallel lives). I haven't read it yet, but it is a real unusual editorial release.

onlyforaminute said:

Bach? I've always thought he was playing off Mozart.

Mozart with the persona... but Bach with the music?

Maybe it's about Sebastian Bach, singer of the metal band Skid Row.

ludwig said:

RJOrion said:

onlyforaminute said:

ludwig said:

Maybe it's about Sebastian Bach, singer of the metal band Skid Row.

Is he Italian?

No. I don't know any italian named Bach.

ludwig said:

Quite a peculiar title.

Grazie mille!

themanfromneptune said:

Today Einaudi (a big publishing house in Italy) released "Bach e Prince, vite parallele" (Bach and Prince parallel lives). I haven't read it yet, but it is a real unusual editorial release.

I would read this book if it was available in French or English.

It is a thesis that funk fans will find bizarre and sacred music aficionados will find it blasphemous. Yet it is precisely in these areas of contamination between apparently irreconcilable areas that new and beautiful ideas can germinate. And who better than Carlo Boccadoro could argue with such passion and competence a thesis like the one that gives shape to "Bach and Prince. Parallel lives"? Yes, because behind the public image of the "Minneapolis elf" and that, idealized in passing down from generation to generation, of the greatest Baroque composer, there are perhaps more similarities than differences. Starting with the struggle that both of these music giants waged - each in their own way - against the industry and powers of their own era. Come and hear that volcano by Carlo Boccadoro tell us why between the Minneapolis of the eighties and the Leipzig of the early eighteenth century there is a thread that no one had yet followed.

RJOrion said:

stop it... certain people always trying to europeanize Prince

He loved Europe (Italian/Italian American culture) specifically ... and Liberace is an influence.