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Date: Thursday, January 21, 2016 Hours: 6pm Venue: Italian Cultural Institute of New York Organized by: ICI Reserve Gianandrea Noseda is widely recognized as one of the leading conductors of his generation. He is Musical America's 2015 Conductor of the Year. Gianandrea Noseda's appointment as Music Director of the Teatro Regio Torino in 2...

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WASHINGTON, 12 gennaio 2013 – Restaurato un prezioso bene dello Stato: dopo lunghi e delicati lavori tona a suonare l'antico organo eolico di Villa Firenze, residenza dell'Ambasciatore d'Italia a Washington. Lo strumento, costruito nel 1925 dalla Aeolian Company, è un pezzo raro, uno dei pochissimi organi eolici americani dell'epoca ancora attivi,...

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by Amy Matthew   During his second appearance in Pueblo, Italian violinist Michelangelo Lentini will feel right at home.   Not only will Lentini — who played here in 2010 — get to bring his wife (Rita Marchesini), he'll get to perform one of his favorite pieces with the Pueblo Symphony. Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61,...

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By Dalna Gualtieri 20 years after his death, 40 after "Amarcord" was realized, 50 after "8 ½" and 60 after "I vitelloni". His bright life has continued to spread through the years, and the multimedia symphony concert held in his honour, is its proof. More than 50 italo-americans musicians at the Royce Hall in Los Angeles, directed by Daniele Bela...

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Italian-born singer Giada Valenti returns to Long Island with new romantic show on March 23, at 2 p.m. at the Dix Hills Performing Arts Center, in Dix Hills, N.Y. Accompanied by her own All Men Band, she will surprise her audience with a new selection of American and Italian love songs from the '60s, '70s, '80s as well as recent contemporary hits a...

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A shy young man wins the girl of his dreams, with a little help from a bottle. If only it were that easy in real life! Our production of this charming comedy is set in rural Texas in the 1930's. The opera was a favorite of both Pavarotti and Caruso and we're sure it will become yours as well. Sung in the original Italian with English surtitles. &n...

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James Kaplan's Sinatra: The Chairman takes around a thousand pages to get us from his Academy Award for From Here To Eternity in 1954 to his death in 1998. Kaplan's previous volume, Frank: The Voice (2010), used up almost 900 pages to get us from Frank's birth in 1915 to '54. The combined 1900 pages of the two books isn't long by the standards of,...

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By David Allen   Frank Zappa should be preparing to turn 75 on Monday. Alas, the iconoclastic musician died at age 52 of prostate cancer. He's something of a native son of the Inland Valley, even if he was born in Baltimore and achieved fame in Los Angeles. A chunk of his formative years was spent in various cities local to us: Rancho C...

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di Maria Paola Arbeia   «La chiameremo Saxophone Valley». All'inizio, ci scherzavano su. Adesso dalle colline di Mezzomerico (Novara) sfidano gli americani, primi produttori di imboccature per sax. La benedizione ai loro primi pezzi è già arrivata. Proprio dagli Usa. Ada Rovatti, stella del sax, nativa di Mortara (Pavia), moglie del grande t...

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Lecture and per­for­mance by John La Bar­bera. A won­der­ful oppor­tu­nity to learn about early 20th cen­tury Ital­ian Music Pub­lish­ers in NYC. The first inter­na­tional pop­u­lar music to emerge in the mod­ern era is the Can­zone Napo­le­tana. The suc­cess of Neapoli­tan song reached beyond the bor­ders of Naples and Italy, cred­ited to the wave...

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