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Ennio Morricone was born in Rome, Italy, on November 10, 1928. His father was a musician and he encouraged musical careers for all his children. Ennio was no exception. The young boy took up the trumpet and entered the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia when he was 12 years old. He graduated from the Conservation with a Diploma in Trumpet (1946), a Dip...

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When: Sunday, July 20, 2014 — 7 to 11 p.m.Where: Gennaro's 5 North Square, North End, Boston, MA For the second year in a row, Gennaro's 5 North Square will present a special Rosé wine night, during which guests will enjoy excellent rosé wine, hors d'oeuvres prepared by Chef Marisa Iocco and live music offered by various musicians participating in...

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di Francesco Salvatore Cagnazzo   PERCHE' SE NE PARLA Tutta l'America rende omaggio a Frank Sinatra, The Voice, nato da padre palermitano, esattamente, di Lercara Friddi, e da madre ligure, di Lumarzo. Il 12 dicembre il mito della musica avrebbe dovuto compiere 100 anni, ma le celebrazioni sono già ben avviate.   A New York c'è la mos...

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Italian singer Giada Valenti will make her debut on PBS with her music special "From Venice With Love", during the Pledge Week taking place on Public Television from November 28 untill December 6.   In her PBS Special the songstress takes her audience on a romantic and magical journey, as she performs her own interpretations of American and...

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by Stanislao Pugliese As Hofstra University prepares a six-day conference on Frank Sinatra, it has given me an opportunity to re-think Sinatra's relationship with Italy and Italian-American culture. While often depicted as a staunch defender of his rich ethic heritage, I would argue that Sinatra had an ambiguous relationship with Italy and Italian...

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Pianists Anthony Porter and Sarah Cahill, Soprano Amy Foote, and Bass Richard Mix present an evening of Italian contemporary pocket operas suspended in between the humorous and the apocalyptic.   Featured works are Fabrizio de Rossi Re's King Kong, amore mio (King Kong, My Love; 2011), on a libretto by Luis Gabriel Santiago, and the wor...

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Manhattan School of Music has named Andrea T. Sanseverino Galan, Vice President for Development.   Ms. Galan assumed this position on April 1st. James Gandre, MSM president said, "Ms. Galan brings to Manhattan School of Music great skills, experience, and energy along with her personal alignment with our mission and who we are as a community...

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  WTI Magazine #42    2014 September, 3Author : italia.it      Translation by:   The Pizzica: A Tradition between Dionysus and the SaintsThe sultry heat, sand blowing in the morning air, and the parched land of Salento, a small subregion in Apulia. The women here, bent over to work in the fields, are marked by fatigue. A tarantula bites one of t...

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Clarinetist Buddy DeFranco, a brilliant jazz improviser who devised many paths for his instrument following its peak popularity in the swing era, died Dec. 24, his website announced. He was 91.   DeFranco began his career touring in big bands, but as the virtuosic style of small-group bebop became the reigning paradigm for modern jazz, he ad...

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Join us for a wonderful evening discovering Mozart's "Don Giovanni". Dr. Nicolas Reveles, Director of Education at the San Diego Opera, will lead the talk. Cheese and wine will be offered to our guests! Italian Cultural Center of San Diego - Friday, February 6, 2015 from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM. ICC Members Only Event. Click here to RSVP...

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