Gaetano Delfini, Roman trumpet player member of Ludi Scaenici: ‘Rome would put music at the service of civilisation’
The images of Jimi Hendrix burning his guitar during a concert in Monterrey are a rock’n’roll icon, a modern cultural phenomenon. Now imagine how it would have been, over two thousand years ago, the moment hundreds of musicians threw their instruments to Julius Caesar’s funeral pile. Music had a ritual function in the classical Rome, […]