Paolo Fresu: 'Lamps and paintings are the most important things'

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"It must have been around the mid-1980s, during one of my first concerts abroad. I was playing in Winterthur, in Switzerland, a guest in the trio of American pianist Art Lande's trio. Instead of taking a direct flight for Sardinia, I have no idea why I decided to return to Italy by train from Munich. I realized that my arrival in Bologna was way ahead of my ferry ride leaving from Civitavecchia. In those few hours of waiting, I enrolled in DAMS, lured in by my passion for Roberto Lèydi and ethnomusicology".This is how Paolo Fresu settled in Bologna: he ended up taking only one exam (theory and solfeggio), but the city won him over, forever. "I have a big passion for houses - the ones in Tucconi, Bologna, and Paris - and I'm able to make them always feel lived-in, even though I'm almost never there. Basically, the secret is simple: they're neat and tidy when I leave, so when I return they're inviting, and this is what I do every time I abandon them for a more or less long period ". This is what he writes in his autobiography, Musica dentro, and he certainly lives up to all expectations. In Fresu's home in Bologna, nothing is out of place and neatness reigns supreme.