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  • Events: Reports

    Eleven Posters for the Year of the Italian Culture

    Azzurra Giorgi(March 15, 2013)
    Images regarding arts, science, architecture, and other Italian excellencies were presented at the Calandra Institute to celebrate the Italian Heritage. Joseph Sciame opened the event introducing John De Santis, who created them, and Consul General Natalia Quintavalle.
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    Remembering Butch Morris (1947-2013)

    Marco Cappelli(February 01, 2013)
    He somehow represented what I came to look for in NYC: a bridge between classical music tradition and improvisation, a logical connection between knowledge and soul, a natural transition from a deep intellectual approach to music and spontaneous creativity.
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    A Little Wager?

    Joey Skee(January 24, 2013)
    Wanna bet Philistine Italian-American “Leaders” become “Outraged,” Again?
  • Art & Culture

    italianrap è morto! Viva Italian Rap!

    Joey Skee(May 28, 2012)
    After fourteen years, I’m shutting down my website italianrap.com. Launched in December 1998, italianrap.com soon became a point of encounter for members of the Italian diaspora, as hip hop heads from around the world reached out to me. The site’s bulletin board was a place where folks from Australia, Canada, Belgium, Italy, France, United States, and other points on the hip hop planet came together. On August 30th, my personal website italianrap.com will cease to exist.
  • Events: Reports

    A Luigi Nono U.S. premiere, a Gregory Cornelius world premiere, and works by Giacinto Scelsi

    (May 01, 2012)
    The Spring 2012 concert series at Columbia University’s Italian Academy for Advanced Studies will conclude on Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at 8 PM when AMP NEW MUSIC and the EKMELES VOCAL ENSEMBLE will present a program of works by Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), a world premiere by Gregory Cornelius (born 1977), and the United States premiere of Luigi Nono’s 1982 masterpiece Quando stanno morendo, diario polacco n.2 – 1982, scored for four female voices, flute, cello, and live electronics.
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    Le Grechesce, Italian Folk Music with Khaossia Ethno-Ensamble Salentina

    Natasha Lardera(April 27, 2012)
    High school and college students of America are being treated to a piece of Italian history where the Sea was an unknown world dominated by the Republic of Venice and encounters between different musicians, mostly amateurs and merchants, resulted in dreamlike music. We went to their concert at La Scuola d'Italia Guglielmo Marconi
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    Ready for Italian Doc Remix?

    Stefano M. Ross(February 25, 2012)
    Waiting for the concert on March 1st, we met with Marco Cappelli (guitar) and Jim Pugliese (drums). They promise “to rock the house” when they play at Roulette with Doug Wieselman (clarinet), Josè Davila (trombone) and Ken Filiano (bass)—and with DJ Logic as a special guest.
  • Art & Culture

    John Turturro: The Sound of Naples

    Stanislao G. Pugliese*(June 29, 2011)
    Naples is a tricky subject for any artist. How is one to balance the two competing and contradictory images of the city? “See Naples and die!” was the cultural imperative of the Grand Tour and the age of Romanticism. Chaos, Camorra and trash are the flip image. Naples is a “city painted in sound,” Turturro notes, and, like many poor places in the world, “music is a form of emotional and spiritual transportation . . . a form of prayer.”

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