What do two Americans who are classical musicians do while quarantined in their newly adopted home in Italy? Play a nightly concert on their balcony, of course. It's a gift for their Italian neighbors, but they also have a strong message for Americans, too.
I'm quarantined with my husband and three cats in a 500-square-foot apartment in Soriano nel Cimino, in the mountains north of Rome. We moved here four months ago and we are not yet fluent with the language. We have no family here; the first time we set foot in this town was February 2019, almost exactly a year before the recent quarantine began. Both our businesses—music performance and travel consulting—have been devastated by the national quarantine, and we have no income.
In this small town, we have found that this type of generosity and community was not limited to our neighbor. Even though we have no family here and our primitive Italian with American accents sometimes make it hard for our neighbors to understand us, we have been embraced and welcomed. After the first night we got a call from the city: Could we postpone the start of our concert until 6:10 p.m.? So the cathedral bells could be heard, and also, so the town could play the national anthem in the town piazza? Would we be willing to be broadcast into the piazza too, after the anthem?
We worry about our future here, and about when we might next be able to visit our family and friends in the U.S. We worry about frittering away our savings since we can't work without tourism and without concerts. We worry about the Italian government allowing us to stay here as immigrants if we can't work for months on end.
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