Requiem for a house
The protection of the historical buildings and thus stopping illegal demolitions have been the subject of a silent march, held Thursday evening in Bucharest, and concluded with a recital performed on his Stradivarius violin by the violinist Alexandru Tomescu. The event’s symbolic title was "Requiem for a house" .
At the initiative of the Ministry of Culture, over one hundred people, including architects and representatives of NGOs have started, with candles in hand, the route-The University Square-Roman Square- Visarion Street. The terminus point of the march was a building that has only the outside walls left. "The building dates from the late nineteenth century and is in a protected area. As a pretext for the needed dismantling, the owner flooded it, set a fire, demolished the roof and put a plate warning "Danger of collapse"
Alexandru Tomescu’s an hour and a half recital took place right in front of the house on the Visarion Street and included, among others, works by Bach and Ciprian Porumbescu, whose tone has maintained the atmosphere of mourning for the "death" of a building.The artist confessed he was more nervous than he had been at Carnegie Hall, and noticed the good acoustics of the place. :)
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