ALONG THE DANUBE: ROMANS, THEIR NEIGHBORS, AND THE MAKING OF EUROPE
The Danube river is one of the main locations marking the long process of the creation and contestation of European civilization in the late Roman period. As we celebrate the European Union and the political and cultural legacy of Europe today, we take the opportunity to turn back to the historical past and to the […]
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ALDO DE VERO, GIUSEPPE CAMPISI: PIANO DUET
Aldo de Vero and Giuseppe Campisi met in 2006 and decided to form a piano duet.Since then, they have played an amazing number of concerts in Italy and Europe, though Aldo lives in Naples and Giuseppe lives in Avola, Sicily. What makes their (very long distance!) rehearsal meetings fruitful and alive is the awakening of […]
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ELECTRIC GUITAR IN MY LIFE
LUCA NOSTRO solo concert This concert is dedicated to Italian and American composers of contemporary music that brought electric guitar to its extremes. From the soft and groovy minimalism to the rock, psychedelic, noise and electronic music, electric guitar is such a versatile instrument that can be played and used as a tool in different […]
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MY TWO ITALIES
Book presentation Presentation of the book: My Two Italies (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014), by Joseph Luzzi.A poignant personal account from a child of Calabrian peasants whose lifelong study of Italy unveils the mysteries of this Bel Paese, “Beautiful Land,” where artistic genius and political corruption have gone hand in hand from the time of […]
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IN SCENA! ITALIAN THEATER FESTIVAL
CLOSING NIGHT – Kairos Italy Theater, the preeminent Italian theater company in NYC, will present its second In Scena! Italian Theater Festival (www.inscenany.com) in all five boroughs from June 9 to 24, 2014. The event will feature six full productions and four readings. Production highlights include “Hanno tutti ragione” (Everybody’s Right), performed by Iaia Forte, […]
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FROM STREET TO ART
Curated by Simone Pallotta Exhibition “From street to Art” is an overview of Italian Street Art through the work of 10 contemporary artists, hosted by the Italian Cultural institute of New York, and curated by Simone Pallotta. The exhibition presents the individuals who have determined the Italian Street Art scene over the past two decades, […]
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THE ITALIAN CONNECTION: POLIZIOTTESCHI AND OTHER ITALO-CRIME FILMS OF THE 1960s AND 70s
Influenced both by 1960s political cinema and Italian crime novels, as well as by French noir and American cop movies like DIRTY HARRY and THE FRENCH CONNECTION, many Italian filmmakers in the late-60s and early-70s gradually moved away from the spaghetti western genre, trading lone cowboys for ‘bad’ cops and the rough frontier of the […]
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IN SEARCH OF EUGENIO MONTALE AND IRMA BRANDEIS
Reading and a Conversation on Eugenio Montale, the Fascist Storm and the Jewish Sunflower by David M. Hertz This new book (University of Toronto Press 2013) uncovers one of the great hidden sagas of modern literature. During Italy’s Fascist period, Eugenio Montale – winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature and one of the […]
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RE-READING ITALIAN AMERICANA
Specificities and Generalities on Literature and Criticism Book Presentation Presentation of the book: Re-reading Italian Americana: Specificities and Generalities on Literature and Criticism (Fairleigh Dickinson UP 2014), by Anthony Julian Tamburri. Divided into three sections, the first deals with the general situation of Italian/American literature and its reception both in the United States and in […]
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L’Amfiparnaso – A madrigal-comedy from 1594 by Orazio Vecchi
L’Amfiparnaso premiered in 1594 in Modena, Italy. It is a witty and profound setting of a commedia dell’arte scenario featuring traditional comic characters, including Pantalone, Pedrolino, Dr. Graziano, Capitano, and the lovers Isabella, Lucio, Lelio and Nisa.
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