Category: The wider contexts
Sunday, January 24, 2016
Only In Italy? A Complete Orchestra - Of Women Playing Harps
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Complexity squared….
The venues are not given, but one looks like the La Scala Opera House in Milan, completely sold out. Actually, there are a few such orchestras elsewhere in Europe and in the US; in Italy they are thick on the ground.
Thursday, December 31, 2015
Buon Anno 2016! Bay Of Naples Has A Fireworks Show Like… Not Your Normal Town
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Last year the fireworks of Meredith’s home town received a lot of praise - she was born not far from that giant wheel.
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Meredith’s Perugia #12: A Colorful Event Right Now That Meredith Might Have Loved
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The flowering of the sunflowers. Il girasoli.
They are flowering right now all around Perugia, and especially to the west in Tuscany.
If you are not pre-warned and happen suddenly on one of these fields, you can drive right off the road, the visual impact is so great!
Meredith missed ever seeing this beautiful sight, sad to say. But many of the foreign students from the university towns do go out to see.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Some Cool Videos From A Very Cool Country - Stagioni Saluti Everyone
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Sunday, October 31, 2010
More Anger Toward Hayden Panettiere For Arch-Callousness Toward Meredith’s Family
Posted by Peter Quennell
Above: Another with the symptoms of a charming psychopath, explaining how Meredith was killed?
Panettiere is reported as refusing to mention Meredith by name. In line with the standing orders of PR campaign, she seemingly wants to disappear Meredith. Make her a non-person.
The anger toward Panttiere among those who knew Meredith or closely identify with her, as we do, is growing stronger by the day. Now there is a scathing commentary by Jenny McCartney on The Daily Telegraph’s website
With depressing inevitability, the cameras began rolling last week on a TV movie about Amanda Knox, the young, blonde American convicted in Italy for her role in the killing of a 21-year-old fellow student, Meredith Kercher, in 2007.
Hayden Panettiere, a rising star, is playing Knox. The actress described herself as “flattered” to be awarded the role, blithely adding: “It’s a really great story and a very controversial one.”
Both the comment, and the film, strike me as being in disgustingly bad taste. For it is not, of course, “a really great story”, but an intensely sad and very recent criminal case, in which an intelligent and beautiful British student was murdered.
The Kercher family, who demonstrated considerable dignity through a long and heavily sensationalised trial, must now be subjected to the additional pain of knowing that the circumstances of Meredith’s death are already being converted into entertainment.
Even Knox’s Italian lawyer, who is presently appealing against her conviction, has strongly denounced any such “exploitation of the situation”.
The truth is that the film’s backers glimpsed a case in which both the murderers and the victim were young and attractive, and ““ in their eagerness for a salaciously brutal storyline ““ abandoned all other considerations.I don’t suppose the film industry ever had much of a conscience: the difference now is the confident assumption that the public doesn’t, either.
Click the Daily Telegraph link to read also the well-informed and very critical comments by commenters Jo Jones and Mutley.
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
Meredith’s Perugia #22: Salento In South-Eastern Italy - Where Sonia Came From
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009
US Overreaction: Meredith’s Mother Regards Cantwell’s Grandstanding As Ill-Informed
Posted by Peter Quennell
This was just reported by Tom Wells in tomorrow’s The Sun
The mum of murdered Meredith Kercher yesterday blasted killer Amanda Knox’s supporters for enlisting Hillary Clinton in her appeal battle….
Ms Cantwell suggested the 22-year-old did not get a fair trial and expressed worries over possible “anti-American” bias in the Italian court. Mrs Clinton, wife of former US President Bill, has now vowed to meet with “anyone who has a concern”.
But Meredith’s mum Arline yesterday insisted Knox’s hearing WAS fair - and said she did not sense any anti-American feeling in the Perugia court.
Mrs Kercher, 64, said at her family’s home in Coulsdon, Surrey: “We are still getting over the sentencing. The whole thing has gone in a blur.
“Having them say they are looking to lodge an appeal was tough enough - and now this. I just do not know where they are going by getting people in high places involved.
“I was in no way aware of anti-American feeling. It was just a normal court. Everything seemed to be done fairly. It seems a bit desperate, but the Italian justice system should be the ones to answer whether it was fair or not.
“We were not exactly given special treatment. I can’t see there was this anti-American thing.”...
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Sunday, November 01, 2009
Those Who Reach Out For Meredith Are Now From 130-Plus Countries
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Meredith’s Perugia #19: A Song As A Tribute To Meredith By Perugian Rodolfo Susta
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This is a touching story, which seems appropriate to the day.
Redolfo Susta is a talented and popular songwriter and singer in Perugia with a big heart who was deeply saddened by the loss of the bright promise that was Meredith and the media chicanery that clouded her memory..
As we have done by way of this website, to try to even the balance in Meredith’s favor, Redolfo has done by way of a song which he has repeatedly sung in Perugia. His audiences all know of Meredith, and they in turn have been moved and inspired.
The link to his song “Meredith” is presently at top-center of Rodolfo’s MySpace page and the story of how the song was created is at bottom here (click for “more”)..
He has offered the song either virtually through the web or perhaps in person one day to Meredith’s grieving family.
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Saturday, August 15, 2009
The Lively Side Of Perugia That Meredith Never Really Saw
Posted by Peter Quennell
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Two typical summer scenes in Perugia. First posted last November, and still moving for the street theater that Meredith so looked forward to and saw so little of after she arrived in Perugia in the fall.