Dr. Glenn Block

[Versión en español abajo] Dear friends and colleagues across the United States, South America and Europe:

I am writing from Buenos Aires, Argentina where I am spending the holidays and New Year with friends. I am planning for an exciting Spring semester, 2024 at Illinois State University with concerts! I also have recently received good news from my university that I will be on sabbatical for the Fall semester, 2024, returning after summer concerts in South America and Italy. My research project includes learning more repertoire from Argentine composers such as Astor Piazzola, Ariel Ramirez and Claudio Alsuyet.

I am planning to release a Blog every week in the New Year touching on personal comments and musical/conducting issues! Stay tuned!

These are some photos of my last weeks visiting my three grown children, their families and grandkids in Pittsburgh, Minneapolis and Boston. A beautiful Thanksgiving holiday! 🙏🏼

Happy holidays to all! Hoping you will all celebrate the New Year 2024 happily, safely and with good health! 🥂✨

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Queridos amigos y colegas de Estados Unidos, Sudamérica y Europa:

Les escribo desde Buenos Aires, Argentina, donde pasaré las vacaciones y el Año Nuevo con amigos. Quiero contarles que estoy planeando un emocionante semestre de conciertos en la Universidad Estatal de Illinois! Luego me tomaré el semestre y regresaré después de los conciertos en Sudamérica e Italia.

Además, estoy trabajando en un proyecto de investigación que incluye aprender más repertorio de compositores argentinos como Astor Piazzola, Ariel Ramirez y Claudio Alsuyet.

Para el 2024, estoy planeando publicar un blog para compartir con ustedes reflexiones personales y temáticas musicales/de dirección ¡Manténganse al tanto!

Estas son algunas fotos de lo que fueron mis últimas semanas, en las que estuve visitando a mis tres hijos, sus familias y nietos en Pittsburgh, Minneapolis y Boston. Compartimos unos lindos días de Acción de Gracias 🙏🏼

¡Felices fiestas! ¡Les deseo un nuevo año de gratitud y buena salud!🥂✨

“The show "The poisoned note" staged last night in the cloister of San Francesco di Guardiagrele with the splendid reciting voice of Nicole Millo, the musical direction of the American Glenn Block, who christened the birth of the young Fuori Comune Orchestra, will remain in the annals of our festival.
The learned and intelligent introduction by Professor Giacomo Fornari, academician of the Salzburg Mozarteum, transported us into the world of one of humanity's greatest geniuses, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The show to follow did the rest.
It was a magical evening, full of emotion and beauty, which not even the disturbance of a nearby pizza festival was able to scratch. On the contrary. Our public, which year after year is becoming a community, numerous beyond all rosy expectations, has shown that it appreciates the food of the soul rather than that of the belly.
Art serves and will always serve the communities to forge free and heavy men, people who look far ahead and know how to imagine a better future for themselves and for their people. For this we exist and will exist. In the distracted world of satiety and social media, being cultured, loving beauty and art is a revolutionary act. It's nice to see how more and more revolutionaries are approaching the GO Festival. We love you.
In the end, as always, a mega spaghetti dinner in the square.
Because even with art you eat.”