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WTI Magazine #1    2013 Oct,18 Author : Fiorella Operto and Maria Teresa Cannizzaro      Translation by: The Language Institute   October 12,1906 marked the 414th anniversary of the discovery of America and, like every year for so many years, associations and fraternities of Italian Americans marched from Washington...

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Cosimo Matassa, whose used-record business in New Orleans led him to sell new records, which led him to open a tiny studio that helped jump-start rock 'n' roll by recording early hits by the likes of Fats Domino and Little Richard, died on Thursday in New Orleans. He was 88.   His granddaughter Mia Matassa confirmed the death. Mr. Matassa w...

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Hoboken’s favorite son, Frank Sinatra, continues to evoke images of the good life nearly 17 years after a heart attack dealt its fatal blow on May 14, 1998. Ol’ Blue Eyes will always be remembered for meeting life on his own terms summed up in the signature anthem “My Way.”   His long-breath, vocal style and impeccable phrasing conveyed emot...

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by Nicola Orichuia   Chiara Civello doesn't know how to stay still. The young Italian singer-songwriter has been traveling the world ever since the age of 18, when she took her bags and left her native Rome to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston. "It's a place that has given me so much," she tells us in an exclusive interview.  ...

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Vintage '50s footage ofDick Clark's "American Bandstand" shows him trying to maintain a modicum of quiet as he's about to announce the upcoming in-studio performance of a guest star. He asks for a moment of silence before the all-hell-breaks-loose moment when he calmly says, "Frankie Avalon" into his microphone. The screaming is deafening until you...

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If you're searching for holiday spirit, look no further. The St. Cecilia Chorus of New York (established in 1906) performs a holiday concert "Mangia! Holiday Music with the Flavor of Italy." The program features Vivaldi's "Gloria" and the "heavenly but underperformed" music of Peter Mennin's "The Christmas Story," Isabella Leonarda's "Three Motets,...

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Tra i molti eventi legati alla cultura italiana che segneranno l'anno appena cominciato, spicca la celebrazione di un "compleanno" particolare. Nel 2013 ricorrono infatti i duecento anni dalla nascita del compositore italiano Giuseppe Verdi. Il mondo intero è pronto a ricordarlo, e l'LAOpera lo fa dedicandogli lo spettacolo di chiusura del 2013. P...

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By Roberto Natalini For all the lovers of the opera in San Francisco, there is now a special opportunity to enjoy some of the best repertoires from the masters of classical music, uniquely sung in Italian within an elegant but informal atmosphere right in the center of North Beach.   Every Thursday night since the last month of August, Rist...

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by Elena Vipera   Lontana da qualsiasi stereotipo o cliché che solitamente rivestono i cantanti lirici, Elisabetta Russo, soprano calabrese trapiantata a Los Angeles, che vanta collaborazioni con artisti di fama internazionale, sta rivoluzionando ogni preconcetto della sua antica arte.   Elisabetta ammette il ruolo fondamentale della...

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Verona's summer opera festival makes its return to Verona's ancient Roman Arena. Carmen, Aida, Turandot, A Masked Ball, Madama Butterfly, and the unforgettable Romeo et Juliette are the six classics set to run June 20th to September 7th, lighting up the summer nights of this City of Lovers.   Officially opening the season is Lo spettacolo st...

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