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Conductor Mazzoleni, the rebirth after a heart attack in the theater: “My first thought is always for music”

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The present has the nuanced white and gold color of an awakening at dawn.

«I am working to return to directing again, with methodicality and meticulousness. I have also resumed playing the piano, studying, and, slowly, I am starting to compose again ». Speaking is Stefano Mazzoleni, 59-year-old conductor and musician from Treviso who is slowly trying to get out of a long pain.

The black hole is dated 7 April 2019, during its performance at the Del Monaco municipal theater to commemorate the 1944 bombing of Treviso. Mazzoleni is conducting the Veneto Philharmonic Orchestra. The applause, the greeting to the audience before returning behind the scenes and then suddenly darkness, during the pause between the executions: a heart attack. But the story of Mazzoleni, esteemed and loved in the city also for his collateral activities (former director of the “Finestre sul Novecento” review and historical guide of the “Salotto Musicale”), did not stop that day. To save him from death, backstage, the heart massage of his composer friend Gianni Ephrikian and the support of a doctor present at the theater.

A heart operation was required, followed by a reserved prognosis month in the coronary unit, before awakening. Since then Mazzoleni, one step at a time, has been trying to regain normality. And it is absolutely no coincidence that his return to public life, his first real exit after two years of recovery and rehabilitation, was framed by the first light of day, yesterday, at the “Solstice Concert” 2021 edition in Restera , in Silea.

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From 5.30 in the morning, between the music of the Tragos de Tango and the maximum attention of the 200 spectators present, a real return to life took place: that of a man, even before a musician and conductor, as well as creator of this morning concert for almost a decade, dazzled and overwhelmed by the first sun.

“I’m happy, so many people came to the concert dressed in white: it is a custom that we have been carrying around for some time, and it always fascinates me particularly,” says Maestro Mazzoleni. Who, in addition to having breathed again the beautiful musical air guaranteed by the notes of Astor Piazzolla, was the protagonist of a reading dedicated to him.

The radio speaker Doriana Vercesi read some excerpts from the novel “The light of the times”, which he wrote in 2018 and dedicated to the history, colors and flavors of Turkey. In addition to the publishing house itself, Sarah, daughter of the conductor, selected the most significant excerpts from the book.

“The Solstice Concert has reached its ninth edition, and it is certainly a source of great satisfaction to know that, given such an extreme time, among the audience there were also friends from Montebelluna, and not only from the city that is a stone’s throw away. . I also sold 23 copies of the book: I would say that I really can’t complain », Mazzoleni joked during the event, which he loved so much.

For the teacher, a re-emergence after a tortuos roada, which still has some curves to overcome: “In the autumn we would like to have another presentation of the book, in Treviso, but everything is not yet defined”, adds the musician who, with his voice still slightly tired after a very early day, underlines his all-encompassing love for music.

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“Things are going well, and as far as possible, I don’t want to rethink what happened to me; some might even believe that, after my happy literary interlude with the book on Turkey, I could devote myself to the reworking of my personal story and maybe write pages on it. This is not the case: if every day I sit in front of the piano again and continue to compose, slowly but with perseverance, it is understandable that my only thought, rather than writing, is all about music. To start again from where I had to stop ».

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