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Piece Description
Achilles Rizzoli never missed a day of work in his fifty years as an architectural draftsman in San Francisco but his real efforts began at night, in the kitchen of the lonely bachelor. There, he poured all the dreams of his ardent soul, by turns humorous and devotional, onto paper, a labor of love that occupied him into his eighties. Not until ten years after his death in 1981 was an art treasure found: hauntingly exquisite drawings of an imaginary city that brought the odd recluse posthumous fame. Was Rizzoli a visionary, a madman or simply a talented recluse whose fantasy life was a cure for his loneliness? This is the story of a strange, gentle man and the transformative power of art, told through his own bizarre writings, memories of those who knew him, the collector/detective who discovered him, professionals in the art world who brought his work to the attention of the greater public and an evocative tapestry of sound, a kind of musical approximation of the impish parody and religious ecstasy of this idiosyncratic artist. Distributed nationally in 2004 by PRI.
Broadcast History
Distributed by PRI in 2004 as part of the Third Season of A Sense of Place.
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Posted on July 23, 2005 at 05:50 AM | Permalink
Review of Stranger in Paradise
This well-produced piece about an eccentric artist that was discovered only after his death has two major distinctions: 1) it achieves something that is a real challenge on radio, namely, make the listener see something visual and - by the end - be extremely intrigued by it and 2) it delivers a kind of elegance that would blend very nicely on any station with arts and cultural programming, especially those bastions of serious classical or modern compositional music - but not only those stations - and the text is interesting and poetic. It calls for quiet, rational listening - like lots of good stuff does.