MAX IONATA CONCERT
Max Ionata – Tenor Sax Spike Wilner – Piano Tyler Mitchell – Bass Dan Aran – Drums Born in 1972, Max Ionata is considered one of the most important Italian saxophonists on the scene. In the span of just a few years, he has won praises from the critics and accolades, succesfully performing both […]
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PIRANDELLO 150
The program is presented by Film Forum in association with “Pirandello 150,” a city-wide, year-long festival commemorating the 150th anniversary of Pirandello’s birth, organized by the newly-formed Helluva Theatre Company. In addition to the film festival, events will include one-act plays, major theatrical productions, readings, panel discussions, podcasts, and academic seminars. Supported by the Italian […]
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ANDREA VITERBI – Reflections of an Educator, Researcher and Entrepreneur
Andrew Viterbi in conversation with Maria Teresa Cometto. Presentation of Andrew Viterbi’s memoir Reflections of an Educator, Researcher and Entrepreneur (CPL Editions, Memoirs & Biographies series, 2016). In his book the author examines his life in America as an immigrant child, his success as a scientist and businessman and the principles that inspired his most […]
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Carlo Ginzburg and Anthony Grafton on ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO
Historians Anthony Grafton and Carlo Ginzburg will discuss the work of Arnaldo Momigliano, one of the most distinguished 20th-century scholars of ancient and modern history. In 1939, following the promulgation of Italy’s racial laws, Momigliano was forced to leave his professorship in Turin. He continued his career at Oxford, London, and later in Chicago. His […]
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SOUNDCITY
A multi-instrumentalist, expert in Mediterranean music and director of international ensembles, Stefano Saletti is one the founder of the Banda Ikona, along with the vocalist Barbara Eramo and the drummer and percussionist Giovanni Lo Cascio. For this concert they will be joined by the Iranian musician Pejman Tadayon (ney, sethar, daf). Many of their original […]
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Italian Playwrights Project 2016
Stefano Massini / Piccolo Teatro di Milano-Teatro d’Europa SOMETHING ABOUT LEHMAN by Italian playwright Stefano Massini tells the story of the historic rise and fall of Lehman Brothers investment house. The fiction book is based on Massini’s theatre plays “The Lehman Trilogy”, a five-hour saga that traces the legacy of the infamous banking family back […]
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JONATHAN LETHEM ON ITALO CALVINO
In 1984, Italo Calvino was invited to give the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University. Before his death he was able to complete five of the six planned lectures on the imaginative possibilities of language and literature. The lectures, collected as Six Memos for the Next Millennium, are now available in a celebrated new […]
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GUIDO CAGNACCI: DYING CLEOPATRA
Guido Cagnacci (1601–1663) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, whose works are characterized by the use of chiaroscuro and by the sensuality displayed by most of the subjects. He shared the anxieties of the Seventeenth Century Baroque without renouncing to the dialectic between soul and body, between spirituality and physicality. Famous for the […]
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WHEN NEW YORK SAVED FLORENCE
Screening of the documentary film Camminando sull’Acqua (Walking on Water), with the participation of Paolo Fantacci (son of Beppe Fantacci), Massimo Ferragamo, Richard Tayar and Laudomia Pucci. In Italian with English subtitles. Produced and directed by Gianmarco D’Agostino, this docu-film describes the flood of November 4, 1966, through the eyes and the camera of Beppe […]
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ITALIAN POLITICAL CINEMA
Book Presentation: Italian Political Cinema Public, life, imaginary and identity in contemporary Italian film Edited by Giancarlo Lombardi and Christian Uva Speakers: Gaetana Marrone Puglia David Forgacs Gianni Riotta With the participation of Giancarlo Lombardi Despite the powerful anti-political impulses that have pervaded Italian society in recent years, Italian cinema has sustained and renewed […]
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