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The Italian American Opera Foundation, that for the past two years has produced the Italian Opera Festival ™ (IOF) in Orange County, has announced today the program for its expanded 2014/2015 season, with a preview concert on October 26th at the Performing Art Center of Soka University, in the marvelous City of Aliso Viejo, and ...

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This week-long event features both historic and new compositions on reconstructions of the legendary Intonarumori, or 'orchestra of Futurist noise intoners,' created by Italian Futurist artist Luigi Russolo. These extraordinary instruments, lost by the early 1940s, were rebuilt from the original blueprints by composer/musicologist Luciano Chessa, f...

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Ever since the invention of the record, the sellers and especially the fans of music have managed to package and promote artists and their work according to styles. In the early days, if you were African American, you were pigeonholed as jazz, blues or "race" music. Jazz and big band artists had to "swing" within their genre.   And toda...

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by Nancy Burns-Fusaro   If it's late August you know exactly what's happening on the bucolic country estate of the late Sergio Franchi, and you know exactly what Franchi's charming widow, the unstoppable Eva Franchi, is up to. "Dahling, I'm on overdrive," says Eva, in her lilting Hungarian accent, as she prepares for Saturday's outdoor...

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By Katie Rife   Attention synth heads, Fulci fanatics, and hipper-than-thou horror dorks: Italian soundtrack composer and Goblin contemporary Fabio Frizzi is playing his first-ever U.S. shows this fall.   The Frizzi 2 Fulci Live tour (if you can call a series of two a "tour") will begin in Austin, where Frizzi will perform at the Cent...

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The Clifton Arts Center presents the Bloomfield Mandolin Orchestra conducted by Enrico Granafei, who is the owner of Trumpets Jazz Club in Montclair, on Saturday, Oct. 12 from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public featuring Italian folk music, celebrating Italian tradition, culture and custom and honoring the Italian-American H...

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Italian music for guitar from the 19th century the Italian patriot Giuseppe Mazzini's guitar A concert by Marco Battaglia who will play a 19th century guitar once belonged to Italian Patriot Giuseppe Mazzini. Marco Battaglia was born in 1969 in Milan (Italy) where his high school studies were concentrated in the classics and afterwards he studied l...

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After Joyce DiDonato's performance of Maurice Ravel's deliciously sensual "Sheherazade" on the opening night of the Kansas City Symphony's new season, the audience was a big puddle of melted butter.   But DiDonato was worried it wasn't flashy enough, and afterward she told the audience she thought it lacked the "ta-da" factor for opening nig...

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The Leonardo da Vinci Society Cordially invites its members and guests to a Holiday Concert and Party PROGRAM: HOMAGE TO ITALY - FRANZ LISZT (from "Deuxième Année de Pèlerinage: Italie"): - Sposalizio– Il Pensieroso– Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa– Tre Sonetti del Petrarca:– Sonetto 47: "Benedetto sia il giorno"– Sonetto104: "Pace non...

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The North End Music & Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC) is very excited for their Children's Choir debut with the Landmarks Orchestra next Wednesday evening at the Hatch Shell! Italian Night is scheduled for next Wednesday, August 5th at 7:00 p.m. This is NEMPAC's first program in partnership with the Landmarks Orchestra.   The NEMPAC Chil...

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