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Anthony Taddeo, a graduate student studying music composition, has a love for a unique genre of music that stems from his ancestry.  Fascinated by Italian culture, Taddeo created Alla Boara, a musical group composed of Youngstown State University students who play Italian folk music. The name translates to a type of song that a worker would listen...

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The Sicilian Opera Choir of Italy, winner of the International Opera Awards in 2017, is a reality that has established itself in the music, theatre, opera, and symphonic scene over the past few years. The particular care of vocality and taste as well as the versatility of the organic components, allow the choir to face both the refined and demandin...

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Picking up dinner from restaurants might seem inconvenient at times, but not when you hear live arias from a balcony above. Philadelphia's Victor Café has kept family musical traditions alive– even during COVID-19. The cafe started off as a “music lovers’ rendezvous,” in the Italian neighborhood of South Philly, serving spumoni and songs on a gramo...

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CAMDEN and music business legend Eugene Manzi, who ran one of the borough’s greatest ever record shops, has died aged 76. In the late 60s through till the early 80s Manzi Records in Finchley Road, Swiss Cottage, was one of the hippest record shops in London, stocking hard-to-find American imports and specialising in soul and the then popular rock a...

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He’s been called a “true gentleman” and the “local Lawrence Welk,” who overcame tragic beginnings to preside for eight decades as one of Oswego County’s and central New York’s most respected and prolific band leaders. Now, Nicolino Sterio, 97, has been called home. “Nick” Sterio — impresario, musician, airman, alderman, carpenter, haberdasher, fath...

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The limbo of this extended quarantine has forced us all into a state of increased resourcefulness. This has been especially true for artists, curators and musicians, whose outlets for sharing their work have been swiftly limited to laptops and balconies. Take David Plylar, senior concert producer in the music division at the Library of Congress. In...

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“I think saying” I love you “is nice, but saying” I want you to have the best of everything “is kindness. It is not just an expression of what I feel for you, but it is how I would like you to be when you are alone “. To tell it is Lady Gaga who, on the occasion of the release of Chromatica, his sixth studio album, opens his heart in a long intervi...

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Tune in this Wednesday for the next episode of OSDIA Interviews LIVE! Wednesday (6/3) at 1:30pm EST on Facebook Live, our hosts Clarissa Burt and Mary Kovach will be joined by award-winning singer and member of The Sicilian Tenors, Aaron Caruso! Don't forget to leave your questions for Aaron to be asked during the live show! Watch interview here

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In these years Lady Gaga has changed its identity dozens of times, in a stream of continuous change. After the huge success of the film “A star is born”, which has led it to win an Oscar, and a show millionaire in Las Vegas, which was interrupted due to the emergency related to the coronavirus), we find the pop star with a clear mission: “I Want pe...

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“Hey Joe” “Hec, what’s up?” If I learned anything from my Italian father-in-law, and his brothers it’s that “old school” Italians are full of great stories, history, and they love to share it with whomever will listen. A simple ‘hello’ leads into the old days of Buffalo and you go down the rabbit hole filled with imagination and amazing stories. Th...

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