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A harpsichord that entertained the elites of Italy in the mid-1500s has been restored by a South Dakota museum and will soon bring its sound to 21st-century ears. The National Music Museum in Vermilion, which acquired the instrument in 2009, worked with Chilean-born musician Catalina Vicens, who specializes in historical keyboards and percussi...

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As the second program of their 2012/13 season, City Ayre: Music of City, Court, and Countryside, the Folger Consort visits Toscana's capital. Hear stirring laude performed along with cheerful dances and polyphonic works of 14th century Florence and Northern Italy in joyous celebration of the season. With vocal ensemble TRIO EOS and guest instrume...

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There will be a special lecture-concert by Duo Scarlatti at the Italian American Museum on Thursday, April 10, 2014. This concert will feature the music of two legendary Italian composers who received great honors in America: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Angelo Gilardino. Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco is among the most important Italian composers of...

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Se oggi la nostra lingua non è stata dimenticata, in parte lo dobbiamo anche a lui. La passione per lo sport e l'amore per la cultura hanno guidato Tony Pirozzi per quasi cinquant'anni, e il suo impegno nel promuovere le tradizioni italiane è stato vitale per conservare la memoria di tutti coloro che avevano lasciato la propria casa per raggiungere...

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Local community members will have the chance to enjoy some Italian-style Christmas entertainment at Jersey City's Casa Colombo during its seventh Annual Christmas Concert and Sing Along celebration.   Sunday's celebration, scheduled to start at 4 p.m., will feature Michael Aromondo and his Metropolitan Festival Band, an Italian street musica...

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By George Grella   Four pieces of music from as many different composers are nowhere near sufficient to comprehensively survey a style or an aesthetic, much less an entire nation.   But Monday night at SubCulture, the New York Philharmonic's CONTACT! new music series used four pieces to demonstrate the continued vitality and depth of...

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by David Witter   In an entertainment career that spanned 70 years, Joseph "Wingy" Manone become one of the pioneers of jazz despite losing his right arm in a childhood bicycling accident.   Growing up in New Orleans at the turn of the century, he would listen to the music that floated across the bayou from the black section of town,...

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For the first time in more than two decades, the Philadelphia Music Alliance (PMA) hosted a stellar evening gala to celebrate its newest group of inductees on the Philadelphia Music Walk of Fame. It was held at The Fillmore Philadelphia on October 26, 2015.   At the induction ceremony that took place during the day on the Avenue of the Arts...

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The Reinberger Chamber Hall in Cleveland, will be hosting, on Sunday April 28th, as part of the planned events for the Year of Italian Culture in the USA, and sponsored by the Consulate of Italy in Detroit and the National Association of the Artistry of Italian Violin Making (A.N.L.A.I) the concert of violinist Matteo Fedeli, entitled 'A Stradivari...

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By Ross Amico When kickstarting a new opera company, there is no more reliable source of juice than the blood-and-thunder dramas of Giuseppe Verdi. As opera houses across the world honor the Italian master in this, his bicentennial year, New Jersey's fledgling MidAtlantic Opera makes its debut with a concert devoted wholly to Verdi highlights. &...

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