Il Tirreno Giornale (PISA, Italia, Tuesday 5 June 2001)
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More delay for approval of the concert of St. Ranieri in Piazza dei the Miracoli and a possible approval for the performance of Japanese artists
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 A suggestive night image of the Tower (foto Muzzi) |
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by Carlo Venturini PISA. The committee for the Tower has done well in 11 years to straighten the bell tower by 40 centimeters. And if somebody straightens it all? At least for a night? If the denial of the superintendent does not arrive - by the way, the pressures at Rome to get an exception for this show and the grand concert of Bocelli go on without standstill and a glimpse is cleared - we will be present at the performance of two Japanese artists. Mutsuharu Takahashi and Haruki Kaito approached not for tourists but with a plan of revaluation for the Pisan Medieval celebration. But we return to the exception for the concert of Bocelli, fixed for June 17, the festival of St. Ranieri. At Rome all the institutional forces are being moved a little bit to allow, for an event more unique than rare like the restitution of the Tower to the whole world, that the concert of Bocelli be held in Piazza dei Miracoli, or that the stage have the same piazza setting and the public is entertained as in the Arcivescovado plaza. Last evening at Rome reassuring news arrived. Today, with the Pisan institutional forces present in Rome at the Institute of Japanese Culture, the performance of the two Japanese artists, will be the decided today: probably with an apporval. The performance of the two Japanese artists will create amazing optic effects, allowing the Tower to be straightened upright, as the medieval architects had planned it. The surprises do not finish here since what frightened us Pisans, and perhaps other billions of people, was that our Tower would lean dangerously. Many desire to address her with a peremptory "stop!". The two Japanese artists, exorcizing our fears, will "dance" the hundreds of tons of marble of our monumental bell tower, all thanks to a smart and artistic play of lights. The medieval churches of S. Paolo at Ripa d'Arno and of the Sacred Sepulchre, like the medieval wall, will be the stage for other performances, while the visitors will participate in an authentic medieval pilgrimmage with a "Light Parade". Translated by Gary Feuerstein, 26 August 2001, from the Il Tirreno article Building Homepage
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