Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and the Poetry of Walt Whitman
The Composer’s Unpublished Leaves of Grass Settings and Other American Songs Lecture-Recital Aloma Bardi, lecturer Salvatore Champagne, tenor Howard Lubin, pianoA special lecture-recital featuring compositions from Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Italian and American years, with a focus on his unpublished 10-song cycle Leaves of Grass (1936) and other settings of Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Drawing on the Library’s […]
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The American Songs
of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Introduced by ICAMus American-music scholar Aloma Bardi, with tenor Salvatore Champagne and pianist Howard Lubin of Oberlin College, this concert focuses on composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) and his settings of Walt Whitman and other American poets. Loved by Castelnuovo-Tedesco himself, who refers to it in his recently published autobiography A Life of […]
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Tutti Giù
(Everybody sometimes falls) MOVIE SCREENING One is a professional athlete. One thinks of sport as a lifestyle. And one gets into sport almost by chance. One, surrounded by the crowd, seeks the inner strength to carve out moments of profound intimacy with self and nature. One feels at home on the street, seeking a family […]
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Viva Verdi!
at the Washington National Cathedral Concert The Cathedral Choral Society presents Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem, the Society’s signature work since its inaugural concert in 1942. To mark the 200th anniversary of Verdi’s birth, the concert opens with his stirring Hymn of the Nations, which includes the national anthems of England, France, and Italy. J. Reilly Lewis, […]
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TEACHING ITALIAN CULTURE CONFERENCE
Keynote Speaker: Luciana Fellin, Duke University The Department of Italian at Georgetown University together with the Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington D.C. invites you to a conference titled Teaching Italian Culture. The one-day conference will take place on October 19th 2013 during the Italian Language Week as part of a series […]
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Aesthetics and Ideology in Painting and Cinema
at the Kreeger Museum Documentary Screening and Discussion In the film The Ghosts of the Third Reich, Claudia Ehrlich Sobral and Tommaso Valente look at the way a few descendants of Nazi high officers have tried to come to terms with their family past. As the relationship between former persecutors and victims is central to […]
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Italian design in the second half of the 20th century
Ezio Mattiace and Claudio Silvestrin will explore some of the paths followed by Italian designers, trying to figure out how they succeeded in gaining a leading role on the world scene. IN COLLABORATION WITH Claudio Silvestrin is the 2013 Walton Critic at The Catholic University of America School of Architecture and Planning LOCATION Embassy of […]
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THE KIDS EURO FESTIVAL 2013
ALL FREE PERFORMANCES! WELCOME TO THE 6TH EDITION OF Welcome to the sixth edition of the Kids Euro Festival! It’s like a trip to Europe — but you don’t need a passport! Kids Euro Festival is a month-long festival of European arts and culture that presents more than 200 free activities to metro-area families. Performances, […]
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Il primo incarico (First Assignment)
CINEFORUM WITH ITALIANS IN DC Apulia region 1953. Nena, a young woman from a small town, is appointed as a primary school teacher in a remote village in Southern Salento. She is excited to start her first job, but sad at the same time, as she has to leave behind the young man she is […]
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Verdi Our Contemporary
WITH THE ENSEMBLE NUOVE MUSICHE Seven composers coming from different parts of Italy have selected as many lyrics of the Master of Busseto and re-arranged them according to their own taste and aesthetics. In addition to these “re-makes”, which do not lose sight of Verdi’s musical lesson, the program includes the performance of some of […]
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