Dante Chiappetta gets Boston Marathon medal from Yale football assistant Kevin Cahill
By Chris Hunn Of all the Little Leaguers at the Darcey School field in Cheshire on Wednesday, no one had a bigger cheering section than North Haven's Dante Chiappetta. A handful of Yale football players and a couple of Bulldogs coaches dropped by to root for Chiappetta, who turned 7 on Thursday. This is part of an ever-growin...
Il Console Pastorelli allo show "Ciao Italia with Mary Ann Esposito"
Il Console Generale a Boston, Giuseppe Pastorelli, ha partecipato a "Ciao Italia with Mary Ann Esposito", il più longevo programma di cucina della televisione americana, in onda da 23 anni su PBS e con uno share medio a trasmissione di 1,2 milioni di spettatori. Durante la registrazione della puntata, che andrà in onda nella primavera del 2013, il...
Coro-Dante Concerto di Primavera
All-Italian Repertoire Chorus of the Dante Alighieri SocietyKevin Galiè, M.M., J.D., Director: Celebrate Spring! / Celebriamo la Primavera!Italian Mountain Songs, Popular Songs, Madrigals and Opera ChorusesSunday, May 17, 2015, 5:00 PMDante Alighieri Society - 41 Hampshire St., Kendall Sq., Cambridge Validated parking at Kendall Sq....
Bocce tournament planned in Abington
The Italian-American Cultural Organization of the South Shore will host a bocce tournament and cookout on Sept. 20. The event will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. at 429 High St., Abington. Lunch will include Italian sausages. Proceeds will support the organization's scholarship fund. Tickets are $10 per person for lunch and cheerleading or $15...
Parlare con la Musica e il proprio Corpo - Petra Conti Interview
Sunday, October 25 | 5:00pm | Dante Alighieri Society | 41 Hampshire Street, Cambridge: Parlare con la Musica e il proprio Corpo - Petra Conti Interview. Stefano Marchese interviews Petra Conti, first ballerina at the Boston Ballet, with screening of video clips. Petra Conti graduated from the National Academy of Dance in Rome in 200...
Il Volo Coming to Boston with Nikki Yanofsky
For the millions of U.S. fans who fell in love with the astonishing talent of IL VOLO following their show stopping PBS Special "Il Volo Takes Flight," or as special guests of Barbra Streisand's fall 2012 tour, the boys will return to North America for a series of 17 concerts. The Live Nation produced tour kicks off August 25 at the Orpheu...
Sounds of Italy to Showcase Italian Musical Spirit
For decades, Boston has been the home of talented musicians thanks to institutions like the Berklee College of Music. Now it will also be the home of the Sounds of Italy Festival.Spearheaded by artistic director Stefano Marchese, the festival will take place over the next several months. Its aim, says the Pescara native, is to "promote Italian and...
Lancaster teen fundraising to play in Italy
by Jan Gottesman For Victoria Tuttle, softball is taking her much further than around the bases. The 16-year-old Nashoba sophomore has been named a member of the U.S. Premier Softball team, which will be playing in Southern Italy next summer. Victoria, the daughter of Donna and Bill Tuttle, of Lancaster, is looking for help to pa...
Boston Marathon History: The Day an Italian Won
The Boston Marathon has been running continuously since 1897. It took 93 years for an Italian to win. That Italian is Gelindo Bordin, who finished first in 1990, with a time of 2:08:19. Born in the northern Italian city of Vicenza in 1959, Bordin had previously won the marathon at the 1988 summer Olympics in Seoul, and is still today the only male...
The Boston Marathon’s Italian roots
While the turn-of-the-century roots of Boston Marathon history are predominantly Irish via the organizing 129-year-old Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.), there is an impressive Italian presence. Lawrence Brignolia, an Italian-American blacksmith from Cambridge, Mass., won the third race in 1899; and Gelindo Bordin of Vicenza, Italy, won the 94t...
R.I.'s Nick Albanese draws on Italian roots for one-man show
by Channing Gray In the two decades since Nick Albanese got a theater degree from the University of Rhode Island, he's tried his hand at standup, even started a theater group doing one-act plays. But he seems to have found his niche with a one-man show about growing up Italian in Providence's North End. He opened "The Last Sicilian" l...
Coro-Dante Rehearsal for Spring All-Verdi Concert
lunedì 15 aprile 201319.00 a 20.30 Dante Alighieri Cultural CenterKendall Square41 Hampshire StreetCambridge, MA (map) Please come to the Dante Early to sign up/ get music - see below description.CORO-DANTE Ti piacerebbe cantare con noi?