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Official Launch of Strumenti e Musica
24 September 2007, Milano

On Monday September 24th, during the Milan Music Show, Strumenti & Musica staff held a press conference to present the FIRST ISSUE that restarts after a few years the publication of the historical magazine founded on 1948 by Bio Boccosi. The official Launch of Strumenti e Musica was begun by Mirco Patarini (Promoter - right) of Ars SPoletium srl. and Davide Fabrizi (Direttore Responsabile - left) of the magazine. Strumenti e Musica is significant both for Italy and the world as it is published in two Italian and Engish to a world readership. Some excerpts from the speech by Mirco Patarini. The history of Strumenti e Musica began in April 1948 when with some assistance from the Farfisa Company, a new magazine began. Bio Boccosi was the founder and Manager. The magazine, simply entitled FISARMONICA, had the objective of linking together musicians, enthusiasts, teachers and manufacturers of an instrument that was rapidly becoming popular. Memorial to Bio Boccosi. Following the trend of its readers it evolved in January 1965 into STRUMENTI E MUSICA and stayed that way until 2003 when the unforgettable Maestro Bio Boccosi, director and driving force of the magazine stopped working at the age of 92. At that moment a great void was created, even if partly filled by the fine efforts of certain artists and intellectuals. The disappearance of a periodical magazine which provided news, published results of competitions and reviews of festivals, told of the schools of the CDMI, publicized instruments and artists, made known new talents; was particularly sad for me. Friends and colleagues know that I have always wanted to revive the publication, increasing its possibilities and inserting some multilingual articles. For this aim, I have searched for, proposed to, insisted and in the end, found a committed and qualified editorial staff. The friendship of great artists and teachers has done the rest. The editorial office is already independent, although I will always take it upon myself to ask them for creativity and at the same time will do my best to facilitate contacts and connections especially those outside of Italy. My heartfelt thanks go to Fabio Boccosi who has allowed Strumenti e Musica to start again. We will always be thankful to him and his father Bio who created it. Mirco Patarini Promoter

After the presentation, Mirco Patarini explained the marketing and ‘sentimental’ reasons for the initative, then Director Davide Fabrizi illustrated the details of the project; explaining the ambitious goal of internationalization of the magazine, demonstrated by the fact that the first issue already has many articles in both Italian and English languages. Then the director of UNCLA (UNIONE NAZIONALE COMPOSITORI LIBRETTISTI AUTORI) Mr. Silvano Guariso (picture above right) spoke. UNCLA is the oldest syndicate organization inside SIAE, and has already started a co-operation with Strumenti & Musica to inform the readers about the complex matter of copyright.

Davide Fabrizi, Direttore Responsabile of Strumenti e Musica	Gianluca Bibiani, staff writer / reporter	Marco Rambaldi - Collaborator

The first issue has been printed purposely without any advertising pages, to give to everybody the sense of seriousness of this project that is built on a solid economic and cultural basis. For information about subscriptions or advertising rates, write to info@strumentiemusica.com or go to www.strumentiemusica.com