An intimate and special concert was held on November 11, 2018 in the Paveneggio Natural Park among the trees uprooted by the windstorm that hit the Dolomite regions on October 18, 2018. The orchestra of cellos led by Mario Brunello played Johan Sebastian Bach’s Air on the G string.

The concert was performed to remember the million of young people killed during WW1 and the the 12 million trees broken by the recent windstorm. The extermination of these Dolomites’ forests, largely caused by climate change, seems to reproduce the disaster and devastation of of WW1.

The Paneveggio forest, located in the middle of Italy’s stunning Dolomites mountains range, holds a precious resource: its Norway spruce trees have been producing top quality resonance wood for cellos, violins and pianos for centuries. The violin-maker Antonio Stradivari sourced here the wood for his instruments.

The concert opened the space for an intimate and profound dialogue in which the trees voices and the musical notes could not separate each other and from each other.