From the publisher:
This title features a dialogue between a wealthy and eccentric Sicilian nobleman and avant-garde composer, as reported by his former manservant Massimo. In the course of the single extensive interview which is this book, Massimo recalls what his master told him about his colourful life and repeats Pavone’s often outrageous opinions about everything from the current state of the world to the inner life of each note, from the Swiss sanatoria in which he spent the war years to his 1949 visit to Nepal, where he rediscovered the power of music. As the interview progresses it becomes comically clear that not only does Pavone not always distinguish between memory and imagination, but that Massimo does not always understand what it is he is repeating. Yet what finally emerges is a moving portrait of a close bond between two people from utterly different social spheres, and of a complex and vulnerable man who never gave up trying to give voice to the music that he heard within him.

Carcanet | Paperback 144 pp. |ISBN: 9781847771667