Close

"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  ...

754

Derek Fisher may have more faith in Andrea Bargnani than the big Italian has in himself. With the Oct. 29 season opener against the Chicago Bulls on the horizon, Fisher refused to rule Bargnani out despite the fact that the Knicks forward has not played since suffering a hamstring injury during the club's first preseason game two weeks ago.  ...

1208

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...

5137

by Karen Wilkin   The Italian-born sculptor Medardo Rosso (1858-1928) is the proverbial "artist's artist." Controversial in his own day, "discovered" by the Abstract Expressionist generation, and now widely acclaimed in art-historical circles, he is an important figure to many contemporary practitioners. Rosso is still not familiar to the Am...

1413

Le crisi economiche a volte portano grosse opportunità. Basta prendere le cose dal lato giusto. E magari guardare l'Italia da 6900 chilometri di distanza. Da New York.   Così ha fatto Lorenzo Aragona, 43 anni, una laurea in economia e commercio presa all'Università di Napoli e il trasferimento nella Grande Mela nel 1999, dopo aver lasciato i...

804

The first Italians who came to the US during the mass migration age spent their first years basically without any right. Some of them because they considered themselves "birds of passage": they came to the US with the full intent of making money and then come back to Italy. Some of them because they weren't interested in losing their Italian citize...

5255

In December of 2007, I was 3 years into my "whirling dervish" obsession of gaining every drop of family history knowledge that I could garner. It became self-evident that my ancestral journey had begun, and so I conceived the idea of creating a website to memorialize, and forever "etch" into existence, the information that I would render from this...

464

Italian culture is stronger in four adjoining Eastern states than anywhere else in America.Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are home to the 22 U.S. markets that have the largest percentages of Italian-American residents, according to the latest federal data.The U.S. Census Bureau's 2010 American Community Survey asked respondents...

2128

In 92 years, the Italian Welfare League has gone from helping newly arrived Ellis Island Italian immigrants to assisting children of Italian descent who require medical assistance or have special needs. These children are I Nostri Bambini.

997

The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere, Grymes Hill, will host its first annual "Taste of Italy" Golf Outing and Bocce Tournament on Wednesday, June 19, at Silver Lake Golf Course. Registration and lunch begin at 11:30 a.m., and cocktails, dinner and an auction begin at 6 p.m. The cost of golf, lunch and dinner is $175 per person; the co...

1675