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To perform at the prestigious Birdland Jazz Club is certainly a challenge of epic proportions for any musician if we think of the names that have graced that stage through the years. Artists like Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Lester Young and illustrious guests of the club like Gary Cooper, Marylin Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Marlene Di...

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The annual showcase of Italian music returns today for its 69th edition. Popular singer Claudio Baglioni resumes his role as artistic director and presenter, and comedians Claudio Bisio and Virginia Raffaele will be his co-hosts. As in previous editions, the festival will run for five consecutive nights but its format will be different this year. W...

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L'8 Febbraio, Venerdi' alle ore 13,00, il Maestro Gianandrea Noseda sara' alla Union Station, con i concertisti della National Symphony Orchestra, per sorprendere con un bel repertorio le persone che saranno gia' li' o che vorranno venire a sentirLi suonare. L'anno scorso questo evento, proposto per la prima volta a DC, ha riscosso il suo primo gra...

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The topic we are addressing this time, among the many that trace the relationship between Italy and the United States from different angles, concerns Italian opera and the Italian Americans. Professor Davide Ceriani is a musicologist who teaches at Rowan University (Glassboro, NJ). A few months ago, he gave a multimedia presentation at the Library...

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The Wrong Side of the Room: A Life in Music Theater by Norman Mathews is one man’s tale of a harrowing journey to a fulfilling life in music, theater, and love. Growing up in a loving Sicilian-American family (his real name is Ignazio Norman Cangelosi) in Rockford, Illinois, deeply shaped his future. The book traces an arc from his grandparents' de...

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The Academy Awards confirmed Friday that Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga will perform their A Star Is Born hit “Shallow” at the February 24th ceremony. The duet is nominated in the Best Original Song category. The Oscars’ announcement comes less than a week after Gaga and Cooper performed the song together – as themselves and not their Star Is Born ch...

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In the Passo Paradiso winter sports station at an altitude of 2,600 metres (8,500 feet), instruments still at times spontaneously implode due to the brittleness of the ice, but less frequently. And when they do, it’s not altogether a lost cause. “Then you know you’re as close to the edge of ice music as you can get,” Linhart said. Here, the artist...

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“Barezzi’s house, on the great market’s square, was one of the most important in Busseto; above the warehouses on the ground floor, the family had its home – which included a spacious room where the Philharmonic Society met to rehears, two or three times a week. Signor Barezzi […] indeed was not only a good businessman, but most importantly a great...

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When: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 From 6:00 pm To 8:00 pm - Where: Embassy of Italy, 3000 Whitehaven St NW, Washington, DC 20008 During the 15th century, Italian villas witnessed an incredible transformation, going from fortified country houses to places of entertainment and leisure, and in the process, experiencing deep remodeling during this tra...

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Ciao Francesco, parlaci di te. “Dopo la laurea all’università di Torino sono arrivato negli Stati Uniti con una Fulbright Fellowship. Fui destinato in un college di arti liberali del Connecticut, posto molto gradevole. Poi mi sono trasferito a Baltimora dove ho preso il dottorato alla Johns Hopkins University. La mia prima cattedra è stata poi in C...

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