CARLO GRANTE – MASTERS OF HIGH ROMANTICISM
Italian pianist Carlo Grante will launch his three-concert series, “Masters of High Romanticism,” on Friday, October 31, 2014 at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York City. He will devote the first concert to the Ballades and Scherzos of Frédéric Chopin. “Carlo Grante is one of the most astonishing artists I have ever known […]
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PER PIANO -MATTEO AREVALOS
Concert Concert for piano solo of contemporary Italian classical music The concert of the Italian pianist-composer Matteo Ramon Arevalos presents in the first half piano works from contemporary classical music of the most important Italian composers: Fausto Razzi, Franco Oppo, Ennio Morricone, Luciano Berio and Giacinto Scelsi. In the second half his own compositions for […]
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A PARTISAN DIARY BY ADA GOBETTI
Book Presentation Week of the Italian Language Partisan DiaryA Woman’s Life in the Italian Resistance BY Ada Gobetti and Translated and edited by Jomarie Alano First account available in English of an Italian woman’s participation in the Italian Resistance (Resistenza) that covers the entire period between September 1943 and April 1945. Ada Gobetti’s Partisan Diary […]
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A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE
Book Presentation Week of the Italian Language This book presents the roses of a family of gifted flower growers and breeders of new varieties. The author represented the subject of the book through the criteria of truth and beauty intrinsic to the camera medium which he masters.Part of the images should be considered as a […]
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THE BEDROOM BY ATTILIO BERTOLUCCI
Book presentation and readings Week of the Italian Language ATTILIO BERTOLUCCI is considered one of the foremost Italian poets of the twentieth century. He was born in 1911 near Parma, Italy, and died in 2000 in Rome. A literary critic and translator as well as a poet, his verse is noted for its directness, which […]
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The Venice Syndrome
Andreas Pichler 2013 | 80 minutes | Germany, Italy – New York Premiere | Director in Attendance The well-documented reality that Venice is sinking into the sea has an equally unsettling parallel: it is drowning in tourists—21 million of them per year at last count. Twenty years ago 125,000 people lived there, but the permanent […]
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Just To Let You Know That I’m Alive
Emanuela Zuccalà and Simona Ghizzoni – 2013 | 64 min | Italy, Algeria, Saharwi Arab Democratic Republic- US Premiere | Director in Attendance Just to Let You Know That I’m Alive gives a voice to the women of the Saharawi people, who have been subjected to some of the most severe and under-reported human rights […]
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Italian International Dance Festival in New York
Following the great success in 2013, the Italian International Dance Festival in New York is ready for a new edition filled with surprises for all.Join us on October 24th 2014 at 7:30pm at the Julia Richman Theatre. Artistic Director Antonio Fini & Creative Director Tabata Caldironi Announcing, the second annual Italian International Dance Festival, which […]
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THE JEWS OF ETHIOPIA UNDER FASCIST RULE
This day focuses on the figure of Taamrat Emmanuel (1888 – 1963) a member of the Beta Israel Community in Ethiopia who, as a young man, was sent to study in France by the Polish Zionist and Orientalist Jacques Faitlovitch. He continued his education at the Collegio Rabbinico Italiano in Florence and went on to […]
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ITALIAN WOMEN WRITERS
BETWEEN JOURNALISM AND LITERATURE Week of Italian language The feminine condition (both contemporary and historical), autobiography, female psychology, and family history and relationships are among the insistent themes of the remarkable number of accomplished women writers active in journalism and literary writing in Italy throughout the 19th and the 20th century. Despite the range and […]
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