A Jesuit priest in Italy hosts a night featuring electronic music at the 15th-century Jesuit church on Milan’s San Fedele Square.
Father Antonio Pileggi, 57, presents a night of music at the San Fedele Cultural Centre featuring experimental electronic composers Maryanne Amacher and Tim Hecker. Next month, Pileggi will host a concert by Alessandro Cortini, who plays the keyboard for the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. Cortini will play on a self-designed Strega synthesizer at the upcoming concert.
“The musicians we choose are people who are open to the spiritual and sacred dimension,” Pileggi told The Guardian. “Many of the first ones were surprised by meeting a priest at a music festival, but by now, the news has spread.”
Prior to his conversion, Pileggi was a composer of contemporary instrumental music. He first received training in his native Calabria and then in Paris under the inspiration of Boulez, Stockhausen, and Messiaen.
“I didn’t believe in God at the time. I was even a bit anti-clerical,” he recounted. “But at one point, I found myself in a church in Paris, one Saturday evening, during the celebration of the sung mass. I didn’t know…
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