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Iconic Irish rock band U2 will be honored by the Los Angeles-Italia Film, Fashion and Art Festival, adding to an already star-studded guest list at the event, which gets underway Sunday in Los Angeles. The nine-year-old festival, which mostly focuses on the achievements of Italian and Italian-American filmmakers and entertainers, said it would pay...

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by Chris Waddington   The Italian Saxophone Quartet comes to the University of New Orleans on Tuesday (April 8), capping the concert season for the Musical Excursions series with another show that embraces a rare instrumental combination. (The UNO series hosted the Ethos Percussion Group in February.)   The Italians banded together th...

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Paolo Nutini has announced several high profile media appearances and he will also be launching a North American headline tour in September in support of his new album. Nutini's new studio album, "Caustic Love", will be released in North America on September 6th. The album has already topped the charts around the world including in the UK, Ireland...

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"Sequenzas" and "Chemins IV" and other works performed by Ensemble mise-en in the first of two concerts featuring works composed by Luciano Berio when he lived in New York City (1965-1972).   Ensemble mise-en is an innovative and versatile New York-based contemporary music collective led by composer Moon Young Ha.   Read more  ...

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Summer saw the passing of two of opera's most iconic figures: Licia Albanese, at the age of 105, and Carlo Bergonzi, at 90. They performed together at the Met only five times, but whenever and wherever they sang, the two were both "incomparable" (Chicago Tribune*); fittingly, the next in the Metropolitan Opera Guild's series of tributes to legendar...

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2015, 08:15pm Jorge Luis Prats, pianoNino Lepore, Guest Conductor   An eclectic musical evening – Italy, Cuba, Spain, and more! The film music of legendary Nino Rota (movies of Federico Fellini, Franco Zeffirelli, and Academy Award winner) for his score of The Godfather, will be a featured live premiere, at the Symphony...

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PBS superstar Pasquale Esposito will grace The Arcada Theatre in St. Charles with a tribute to Enrico Caruso on Oct. 24. The concert will showcase songs featured on "Pasquale Esposito Celebrates Enrico Caruso," a 2-CD drawn from the PBS special of the same name that was first aired this spring. "Pasquale was born to do a tribute to the gr...

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by Valerio Viale   In order to grasp the scope of the unique musical event, to be hosted at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on January 20th, we need to go back to 16th century in Venice, Italy. Back then, numerous charitable associations, composed of lay men and women alongside religious ones, were formed.   Among those, the oldest...

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La Congrega Maria SS. Addolorata di Brooklyn. N.Y., presenterà come ogni anno, per completare i festeggiamenti della protettrice, un concerto di musica classica, con artisti venuti appositamente dall'Italia, per allietare la nostra comunità italiana e non. Avremo fra noi, artisti che si stanno affermando non solo nel loro paese, ma anche all'ester...

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«Non mi interessa quanto successo possa avere, ma ricordo sempre che la mia famiglia è emigrata da questo Paese. Mia nonna vendeva vestiti per pochi spiccioli e mio nonno era un ciabattino. In fondo sono una ragazza italoamericana».   Lady Gaga sceglie il momento più intimo dello show, quello in cui è sola al pianoforte, per ricordarsi delle...

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