Nel 2021 Roberto Prosseda conceived, wrote and recorded 6 episodes for Italian National Television, dedicated to the Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino, seen from a musical point of view. Each episodes is focused on each "Memo".
Roberto Prosseda alternates readings from the original text by Calvino, with performances at the piano.
1. La Leggerezza (Lightness)
https://www.raiplay.it/video/2021/07/Lezioni-Americane-S1E1-49d217ed-81e4-4919-a160-a9d7b4b0dc55.html
(Mozart, Bach, Mendelssohn, Debussy)
2. La Rapidità (Quickness) https://www.raiplay.it/video/2021/07/Lezioni-Americane-S1E2-0a340caa-53c3-4699-b411-a26da8f13eeb.html (Beethoven, Scarlatti, Webern)
3. L’Esattezza (Exactitude) https://www.raiplay.it/video/2021/08/Lezioni-americane-S1E3-35550d26-f487-4da1-8796-1c35268c6eb9.html (Bach, Mendelssohn, Schönberg, Pärt)
4. La Visibilità (visibility) https://www.raiplay.it/video/2021/08/Lezioni-americane---S1E4-92f12d32-0715-4730-a16c-f3e8896ea578.html (Liszt, Debussy, Schumann, Brahms) 5. La Molteplicità (multiplicity) https://www.raiplay.it/video/2021/08/Lezioni-americane---S1E5-9355c561-611b-4c53-91a5-ec4f6db81d65.html (Bach, Schumann e Schönberg) 6. La Coerenza (Consistency) https://www.raiplay.it/video/2021/08/Lezioni-americane---S1E6-ad4f232f-9b6f-47f3-bf24-b0368515a316.html (Chopin, Beethoven, Schubert, Bartók, Brahms)