Bologna, Ezio Bosso's words illuminate via Petroni

The words of Ezio Bosso light up Via Petroni in Bologna, one of the most famous streets in the university area.

Music teaches us the most important thing there is: listening: these are the words with which the city wanted to pay tribute to the great musician, composer and conductor who died this year in May in Bologna itself. The phrase, which is located a few steps from the house where he lived, is accompanied by musical notes and a treble clef.

The initiative was curated by Fondazione Rusconi, which in recent years has been in charge of the illuminations in the university area and this year decided to remember Ezio Bosso because “he was a part of this city, providing his sensitivity and his vision of music and life.”

Music held enormous value for the celebrated conductor, who despite his illness never stopped: “Music is a necessity, like breathing, like water. This is one of the things to think about all together, and the necessity of giving it to everyone is the necessity of a musician: to distribute it and make people feel good,” he said. “The magical power of music is infinite because of that score, because it makes us all equal, because it makes us all one society working to be better, because it gives us hope, and because it makes us human for real, out of all the solipsism of social and this always-only looking of ours to shout and scream. No, music whispers and reveals life to us.”

Bologna, Ezio Bosso's words illuminate via Petroni

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