Dear Friends, Rome's equivalent to Lincoln Center, Renzo Piano's "Parco della Musica", will present a concert of Ezra Pound's music on the evening of Saturday, May 8, 2010. This is a project of the American Academy in Rome and the Fondazione Musica per Roma. We will be supervising the music and giving a brief introduction. The program will present the first European performance of Pound's solo violin piece based upon his "Sestina: Alteforte", the first Italian performance of the complete Paris1926 version of "Le Testament" and the world premiere of two arias from his unfinished third opera "Collis O Heliconii"; the title aria upon the text of Catullus and the "Poikilothron" on the text of Sappho. The concert will also include and aria from Pound's opera "Cavalcanti". Our press release: http://independent.academia.edu/MargaretFisher/Papers Parco della Musica, Rome (with links for ticket acquisition): http://www.auditorium.com/eventi/4952264 Sincerely, Margaret Fisher and Robert Hughes