Violinist to join Virtuosi
Italian violinist Luca Rinaldi will join the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra tonight and Saturday for two concerts featuring Italian masterworks by Arcangelo Corelli and Ottorino Respighi. Luca Rinaldi's career has found him performing as a soloist and violinist throughout Europe, winning international competitions and earning awards as a v...
The Art and Architecture of Venice
When: Friday, May 3, 2013 Where: Dante Alighieri Society — 41 Hampshire St., Cambridge MA [map] Please join architect and artist Adam Van Doren at the Dante Alighieri Society for an illustrated book presentation on Friday, May 3, 2013.
Gruppuso, Prezioso Team Up to Record Song in Boston
Two rising musical stars finally had the chance to get together in Boston and work on a long-planned collaboration. During a recent visit to Boston, Italian singer Paola Gruppuso had the chance to record her latest single, "Tonight," with local songwriter and producer Vinny Prezioso. A recent graduate of Berklee College of Music, Prezioso hails fr...
NE Vatican Patrons: Carlo Crivelli of Venice – November 21st
The New England Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums is pleased to inform you that Dr. Nathaniel Silver, Renaissance Art Expert and a Curator at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, has graciously offered to lead a tour of the current exhibit at the Gardner: Ornament & Illusion: Carlo Crivelli of Venice. The tour will commence at 10:3...
Volunteers bake thousands of cookies for St. Peter's Italian Bazaar
Thousands of cookies were made fresh Wednesday in Portland. Seven thousand cookies to be exact. Dozens of volunteers at St. Peter's parish hall baked and decorated the cookies to get ready for the 91st St. Peter's Italian Bazaar this weekend. They say they used about 83 dozen eggs and 150 pounds of flour to bake all those Italian...
Augusto Sorriso ha nominato Fucsia Nissoli Fitzgerald Coordinatrice del MAIE nel New England
In una nota diramata oggi, il coordinatore del MAIE USA, Augusto Sorriso, ha annunciato l'ingresso della nuova coordinatrice Fucsia Nissoli nella struttura del Movimento Associativo, definendola: "Una donna straordinaria, piena di idee e con grande capacità di aggregazione. Fucsia Nissoli è una donna molto apprezzata dalla collettività italoamerica...
9th Annual Sacco and Vanzetti March/Rally
Saturday, August 23rd, in Boston, the 87th anniversary of the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti will be remembered. Sacco and Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and committed anarchists whose trial is regarded as one of the great miscarriages of justice in American history. Calling attention to the continued repression of immigrants a...
Italian Film 'Bricole Sur Mare' At Infinity
Infinity Music Hall & Bistro will be the site on Tuesday, Oct. 11, of a one-night-only screening of a film from Italy and musical performances by the film's star, as well as a second Italian performer and the newest incarnation of the classic vocal group The Platters. The event, which is part of a 12-city roadshow-style U.S. and Canadi...
Italian Cultural Center in Agawam presents Serviam awards
by Lu Feorino The Italian Cultural Center of Western Massachusetts presented the 2013 Serviam award recently at St. Anne's Country Club in Feeding Hills to a deacon, a legislator and a professor. Winners Joseph Garde, Angelo Puppolo and Rocco Mesiti have made significant contributions to the Italian-American community. Garde,...
Newburyport Chamber Music Festival welcomes Gabriele Carcano
Gotta be Italy, right?After all, Gabriele Carcano, if you haven't guessed from the name, is Italian. And, although he's not Italian, Newburyport Chamber Music Festival artistic director David Yang has been flying over to Italy usually at least twice a year, performing at Incontri a Canna and Ischia, two international chamber music festivals, both i...
July 14, 1863: The day the North End said ‘no’ to conscription
by James Pasto The Boston Draft Riot of July 14, 1863, is remembered more as the "North End Draft Riot," since it began in the North End and the worst part of it occurred in the nei. The context was the American Civil War and the resistance of many Irish immigrants to conscription into the Union Army. Immigrant resistance stemmed...
Our Lady of Mt Carmel Festival Day Processional in Springfield's South End
In anticipation of the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in mid-July, members of the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Society carried a statue of the Blessed Mother through the streets of the South End to their headquarters, where they provided a free brunch and music for the community. As it was carried outside the church, the procession paused s...