The striking placement of the image symbolizes music's historical centrality in the city that has been home to giants extending from the days of Vivaldi, Gabrieli, Monteverdi and Cavalli to 20th-century masters like Luigi Nono.
These days, though, Venice is more of an art town. Every other year, crowds swell this floating labyrinth of twisting alleys and lapping canals for the enormous, seven-month-long Venice Art Biennale, one of the defining events of the global visual arts scene.
The music biennial opens for a two-week stretch of roughly hourlong performances; I attended nine of them over five days earlier this month.
Like the art festival, the Music Biennale ventures beyond established exhibition spaces to Venice's palazzos and churches.
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