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Join the three, young Italian tenors, Piero Barone (19), Ignazio Boschetto(18) and Gianluca Ginoble (18) of Il Volo from The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater as they perform two, full-length national PBS concert events across two days, March 26 & 27, 2013!

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By Andrew Gilbert Italian drummer Peppe Merolla is determined to bring a dose of hard-hitting New York jazz to the South Bay. The premise might sound strange, but the Neapolitan native spent a dozen years plying his trade in the Big Apple, and he's been embraced by many of New York's elite players.   Since settling with his wife and two dau...

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In partnership with the French Cultural Center and Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts, explore the story of Rigoletto from its French origins in the Victor Hugo play Le roi s'amuse to Verdi's adaptation for the Italian opera stage.   See performances of selections from both works, discover the political scandal surrounding the original...

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Italian rock violinist Andrea Di Cesare will perform two shows in Binghamton this week.   On Friday as part of the First Friday Art Walk, Di Cesare will be the featured act at a variety show sponsored by Binghamton University's Department of Romance Languages. It starts at 6 p.m. at BU's Downtown Center (67 Washington St.) with students and...

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Intonarumori: Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners conducted by Luciano Chessa. Presented in collaboration with Consulate of Italy in Detroit and Honorary Consulate of Italy in Cleveland "Today, noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men," Russolo wrote in "The Art of Noises," a Futurist manifesto of 1913. Luigi Russolo (1885 -...

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Compie 20 anni l'Mp3, il formato che ha cambiato radicalmente il modo di distribuire la musica nel mondo e ha portato la rivoluzione delle playlist personalizzabili anni prima dell'arrivo di iTunes, iPod e dello streaming. Una rivoluzione nata non dall'industria musicale, ma da un collettivo internazionale di scienziati coordinato da un ingegnere i...

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September 20 (Sunday) 2:00 pmCaruso and the Evolution of Recorded Sound: Caruso recordings and the history of recorded music, music boxes and records. Sponsored by the Enrico Caruso Museum of America - 1942 East 19th Street, Brooklyn   Admission: free; open to the publicContact: Comm. Aldo Mancusi 718-368-3993amancusi@enricoca...

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October 24 @ 7:30 pm - Philadelphia (PA), String Theory School Theater 16th and Vine Streets AZA'IO was the 11th world premiere and 1st Italian children's opera created by International Opera Theater in Teatro degli Avvaloranti, Citta' della Pieve in August of 2014. In the past 12 years, artists from more than 40 countries have come to Citta'...

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Silvio Marchetti, who has silver hair and a dry sense of humor most atypical for an attache, tells a story about meeting the late Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago, in the mid-1980s. Marchetti, who now heads up the Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago, had come from Italy and requested a mayoral audience to talk up the cultural riches of his nat...

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FROM PALERMO TO NEW ORLEANS The story of the first jazz record ...Few people know that on February 26, 1917, an Italian musician in New Orleans released the first record ever made in the history of jazz. That musician was Sicilian and his name was Nick La Rocca... These are the opening words of "From Palermo to New Orleans," a documentary film prod...

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