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Internationally renowned organist Leonardo Ciampa will perform a concert of Italian organ music on Sunday, January 26 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. at St. Leonard’s Church, showcasing the church’s new pipe organ. Installed last spring by the Peragallo Pipe Organ Company of New Jersey, the organ contains over 1,000 pipes. Ciampa has played organ recitals in...

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The Italian radio program Melodie E Ricordi WNTY 990 am celebrated its 50th anniversary with over 400 guests at Aria Banquet Facility in Prospect. The night was a great celebration which included the town of Southington surprising WNTY with an official proclamation and citation, recognition plaques were presented to past and present radio personali...

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Giorgio Moroder doesn’t like the relative silence of electric motors. But rather than complain about the fact that you hear little more than a hum when you turn your electric car on, the legendary musician known affectionately as the “Father of Disco” is going to do something about it. Having previously put his stamp on disco, electronic music and...

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What made him successful? Was it dazzling special effects? Booty-shaking dance routines? Ear-splitting guitar riffs? No, it was the warm, relaxed manner of the man Bing Crosby dubbed “the man who invented casual.” With his soft and inviting baritone, wearing his unassuming cardigan, Perry Como characterized popular music of the 1940s and ’50s on ra...

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Friday January 17, 2020. Mediterranean Pulse - Ritmi della terra, NEWPOLI performs LIVE at Drom in the East Village, 85 Avenue A, NY. Doors: 6:30 PM / Show: 7 PM. Ages 21+ $15. Buy Tickets here. Newpoli crosses through time, culture, and musical styles as it performs modernized taranta music from southern Italy and surrounding countries. The high-e...

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Sono tantissimi i progetti artistici in corso di realizzazione in vista delle celebrazioni di Dante 2021. Dopo la Divina Commedia "da Guinness" disegnata a matita su un enorme foglio di 97 metri in Finlandia, ora l'opera letteraria che ha reso celebre il "Sommo Poeta" nel mondo finisce dipinta sui violini. E' il progetto di Leonardo Frigo, artista...

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There are few operas as relatable as La Bohème, Puccini’s beloved tale of young, broke city hipsters living for themselves and each other, and for love or something like it in newly bourgeoisie 19th-century Paris. Anyone raised on Rent, the opera’s rock musical adaptation, or for that matter the sitcom Friends will recognize in La Bohème an ensembl...

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With the city in the grip of what passes for winter, the Houston Symphony treated Thursday’s audience to an Italian holiday. Both guest conductor Jader Bignamini and the evening’s featured soloist, violinist Augustin Hadelich, are Italian-born. The repertoire included Paganini’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, a technically flabbergasting monumen...

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Charlie Romo has two passions: Performing music and teaching it. So it’s no surprise the 23-year-old Tottenville crooner was recently voted “Best Musician on Staten Island" against fellow finalists Vinnie Medugno and Madison Gattullo. During an interview at ET Studio Productions in Charleston, where he teaches vocal lessons, Romo said he is thankfu...

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During these turbulent times, much has been said and written about Oriana Fallaci. More than thirteen years after her death, her prophetic statements continue to be discussed. It is only possible to talk about Oriana Fallaci through her extensive work in order to have an objective picture of her complex and varied activities. Such an effort must be...

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