ITALIAN LANGUAGE WEEK IN THE WORLD
OCTOBER 10 – NOVEMBER 1, 2012
OCTOBER
10
AFFETTI ITALIANI – concert
Embassy of Italy:
6:00 pm – Auditorium
Pre-concert talk Italian Masterpieces of the Baroque and Rococo in the National Gallery of Art by David Gariff
7:00 pm – Atrium
Concert – The Vivaldi Project
Affetti Italiani ( PROGRAM DETAILS )
OCTOBER
13, 14
JOURNEY TO ITALY – cinema
National Gallery of Art:
East Building Concourse, Auditorium
4:30 pm – Film: Viaggio in Italia (1954) directed by Roberto Rossellini, 97 minutes
Restoration from L’Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna ( MORE INFO )
OCTOBER
14
ROOTS OF 19TH CENTURY VIRTUOSITY – concert
National Gallery of Art:
Pre-concert talk: Nineteenth-Century Italian Sculpture and the Risorgimento by David Gariff
6:00 pm – West Building Lecture Hall
Concert:Roots of Nineteenth-Century Virtuosity
6:30 pm – West Garden Court
Thomas Mastroianni, pianist and narrator
Alessandra Marc, soprano
Ricardo Cyncynates, violinist
Francis Conlon, pianist
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OCTOBER
18
Sarnari: Fragments – exhibition
Embassy of Italy:
Around the imposing Grande Onda, a triumphant black wave (137”x1200”) which invades a whole wall, the abstract yet warmly colored Fragments and the complex Cancellations offer a fair introduction into the world of one of the most interesting Italian painters of the last fifty years. Franco Sarnari’s painting sets up a close dialogue with the old masters, but always focuses on the tensions, fears and hopes, joyful bliss and terrible anxiety of our time.
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OCTOBER
19
BLINDLY by Claudio Magris – book presentation
Georgetown University:
With a labyrinthine narrative structure Magris’s novel Blindly recounts the history and geography of the twentieth century, its horrors, hopes, and revolutions.
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OCTOBER
21
I MUSICI DI ROMA – concert
National Gallery of Art:
6:30 pm – West Garden Court
Concert – I Musici di Roma
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OCTOBER
25-27
ELSA MORANTE AND THE ITALIAN ARTS – conference
The Catholic University of America:
The conference aims to shed new light on Elsa Morante’s influence during her time and on her artistic/literary legacy in a celebration of the one-hundredth anniversary of her birth. In accordance with Morante’s beliefs, the conference also aims at creating an intergenerational collaboration, engaging established and emerging scholars in a constructive dialogue.
( PROGRAM DETAILS )
NOVEMBER
1
ENRICO ELISI & ALESSANDRA MARC – concert
Embassy of Italy:
6:00 pm – Auditorium
Pre-concert talk Post-World War II Italian Art and the Paintings of Franco Sarnari by David Gariff
7:00 pm – Atrium
Concert:
Enrico Elisi, pianist
Alessandra Marc, soprano
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