
What Busoni Taught Kurt Weill
“What Makes It Italian?” Famous Composers and the Italians Who Taught Them
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2021-22 Season Highlights
Watch the video: Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò 2021-22 Highlights (English Version)
2021-22 Season Highlights
Watch the video: Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò 2021-22 Highlights (Versione Italiana)
On the occasion of the publication of ‘The Betrothed’ A new translation by Michael F. Moore of Alessandro Manzoni’s ‘I promessi sposi’ Casa Italiana presented a screening of I promessi sposi (The Betrothed) (1922, Silent with Italian intertitles subtitled in English, 130 min.) In a newly restored version by the Fondazione Cineteca Italiana (Cineteca di Milano) With a new soundtrack commissioned by NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò Composed by Art Hirahara Performed live by: Paul Bollenback – guitar Art Hirahara – programming, piano, keyboards Mas Koga – flute, saxophones Jennifer Vincent – 5 string cello
Watch the video: Casa Italiana Holiday Party 2022 and screening of I Promessi Sposi (1922)
Featuring Alessandra Belloni, vocals & percussion John La Barbera, music director, guitarist & composer of I Giullari di Piazza
Watch the video: Sacred Drumming for the Seven Black Madonnas
Whaddyacall the Wind? (Bordighera Press, 2022)
Watch the video: Book Presentation: “Whaddyacall the Wind?”
Today’s word is CRAPULA, Italian for excessive eating.
Watch the video: Parole Parole: “Crapula”
Today’s word is CHIACCHIERONE, Italian for a chatterbox.
Watch the video: Parole Parole: “Chiacchierone”
Today’s word is SFIZIO, Italian for a treat, or a whim.
Watch the video: Parole Parole: “Sfizio”
Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin.
Watch the video: A Conversation with Roberto Scarcella Perino
Today’s word is POLPETTONE, which literally means “meatloaf,” but is also used figuratively.
Watch the video: Parole Parole: “Polpettone”
Today’s word is MINESTRA, Italian for soup.
Watch the video: Parole Parole: “Minestra”