Musical Reading. Words and music for peace and war

11.12.2025

Muralto. Palazzo dei Congressi

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ORGANIZER: Società Dante Alighieri Locarno

Muralto. Palazzo dei Congressi.

Thursday, 11 December 2025, 6:00 pm.

Admission: voluntary contribution.

Recommended age: 14 and up.

Dante Alighieri Society Locarno website

A performance exploring peace and war through music and words, tracing a backward journey from the Locarno Treaties to the desire to enter war. It features poems, songs, memoirs, speeches, letters, proclamations and hymns, including Ghilardi’s, which echoed in Locarno one hundred years ago.

Supported by Fondazione Magna Charta and Fondazione cultura nel locarnese.

Title page of the score of Ghilardi's Hymn of Peace (Locarno Cantonal Library).

Achille Luciano Mauzan, Everybody do your duty. National War Loan postcard, 1917.

Propaganda leaflet addressed to soldiers of the 5th Army of the Royal Italian Army in World War I, Francesco Baracca Museum.