Rain, rain and yet more rain. If that’s the picture in flooded England then its even more so in flooded Italy. The high tide in Venice has never been higher and people are encouraged to stay away even from the seafront of Viareggio.
There is no doubt that climate change is at play here; I’ve been long enough in these parts to realise that.
All the streams and rivulets around our village are bursting their banks:
Meanwhile, there’s little chance of doing much gardening and the leaves have hardly begun to fall.
This is clearly the weather to stay indoors and read a book or watch a video. One thing might drag me out today, however, and that is the concert at san Francesco monastery at Borgo di Mozzano.
It is given on that virtuoso instrument of the 17th and 18th centuries, the seven stringed Viola da Gamba. Francesco Tomei is the player in the third event of “Music Encounters – the places of beauty and Culture” organised by the “Salotti” music school and the Comune di Borgo a Mozzano under the artistic direction of Giacomo Brunini.
The Viola da Gamba concert, held this Sunday 17 November, at 5.15 pm, will feature music by Monsieur de Sainte Colombe, Captain Tobias Hume (the Scottish viol virtuoso and mercenary with the Swedish and Russian armies), Telemann, and Marin Marais.
All these concerts are free admission and further information on them may be had at
borgoamozzanomusica@gmail.com – Cell. 3498496612 and at www.scuolacivicasalotti.it
