Santa Lucia

 

Dear friends of piano music,

"Santa Lucia" is my favorite Heidelberg restaurant. When we recently stuffed ourselves with mountains of spaghetti brought from there, we remembered that the Venice train station is also called "Santa Lucia" and how long we have not been there.

Venice, which has always been a mythical place of longing, has become unreachable for all of us in the corona pandemic, soon it may be different. Also in the 19th century, an educational trip to Italy “in Goethe's footsteps” was the non plus ultra, also for Felix Mendelssohn. At the time, however, one spent weeks, if not months, in the land of one's longing, taking the time and leisure to study the rich treasures of art and culture, to absorb the colors and the light.

Today you walk through the alleys from the cruise ship, buy a mask or pseudo Murano vase made in China, eat a burger and disappear again. Venice is consumed in a hurry, the actual treasures are left behind.

Kind regards Kerstin