Being appointed a state senator for life in Italy comes with a state salary.
Claudio Abbado was happy to accept the title. The money he has renounced. It will go to finance student scholarships at the music school in Fiesole. Nice.
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Marvelous gesture!
What a guy! And no one is crying that the money is not staying in Italy! Indeed marvelous!
Fiesole is as Italian as it gets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiesole
As is naming an unelected person a “state senator” and giving that person a monthly salary – for life! – when their economy is already in the toilet.
And it doesn’t appear to be a trifle either:
http://www.giornalettismo.com/archives/1105619/elena-cattaneo-e-lo-stipendio-del-senatore-a-vita/
Great musician but, above all, great man indeed.
Let’s all hope that 2014 is kinder to Maestro’s health than was 2013.
Wonderful.
Could you imagine Maazel, Mehta and a few others giving up their golden fees!?
It’s not about “fees”. Read again, this time more carefully.
what a mensch
mark… dead on… yes.
The Fiesole school is a lovely place, started by the late Piero Farulli, violist of the Quartetto Italiano for 30-odd years. Abbado has always supported the school. As the son of a very distinguished violinist, he understands the need for expert instruction.
Indeed! I got an alarming call from Italy last week about his condition, and, beyond the gravity of the condition described to me, it seems he is in pain.
That was a reply to Daniel Farber’s post above.
Both Maazel and Mehta have contributed quietly over the years. Maazel has a foundation that supports young artists and Mehta has worked for expenses in Israel his entire career when he could have taken lucrative guest conducting work.
Grande Claudio