Sweet Thunder Music Festival.
The San Francisco Contemporary Music players present the Sweet Thunder Music Festival: four days of modern and new music, ranging from established masters to up-and-coming composers. The festival will end with a concert at 2:00 PM on the 27th of April, which will include the 1979 piece Con Luigi Dallapiccola by Luigi Nono, an Italian […]
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CICIS Italian Studies Symposium
Precarietà/Precariousness The 2014 California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies (CICIS) conference presents papers that explore the topic of “precarietà/precariousness,” the feeling of moving towards or away from a sense of greater security as well as the idea of existential fluidity. These notions may include the idea of “passing through” or that of precariousness in society […]
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Guglielmo Achille Cavellini 1914-2014
Centennial Exhibition Born in Brescia, Italy in 1914, Cavellini is a historically important artist who gave context to the Italian Experimentation period and was the first artist to bridge postwar Italian art with American Pop Art. Yet his diverse body of work defies easy classification, as he quite spontaneously, eradicated art/life boundaries, recycled imagery from […]
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1914-2014: À la vie!
War letters and love poems on the centenary of the Great War A concert by the DUO ALTERNO for voice, piano, video projections and photo-sounds.The Duo Alterno is considered one of the most significant reference points in the vocal-piano repertoire ranging from the early 20th century to today. Since its debut in Vancouver in 1997 […]
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Finding the Mother Lode: screening and reception
Documentary about Italian immigrants in California Sunday, 6 April, 4:30-7 PM: Screening of Finding the Mother Lode at Carole Ellis Auditorium on the Santa Rosa JC Petaluma Campus, 680 Sonoma Mountain Parkway. Prior to the filming at 5:00 PM, there will be a reception with light refreshments. Filmmakers Gianfranco Norelli and Suma Kurien will be […]
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With Malice Aforethought
The execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti On April 15, 1920, five bandits robbed and killed a paymaster and his guard in a Boston suburb. The police charged Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti with the crime. They were local immigrant workers associated with a detested anarchist group. A year later, a jury convicted Sacco […]
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17th Sonoma International Film Festival
Two Italian films at the 17th SIFF: Saturday, 5 April, 8:30 PM; Sebastiani Theatre. The Great Beauty (By Paolo Sorrentino; starring Toni Servillo. Italy/France, 2013; 142 minutes). Academy Award 2014: Best Foreign Film. Journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but when his sixty-fifth birthday […]
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Via Francigena
The ancient road from Canterbury to Rome The historic Via Francigena, far less famous and less travelled than the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, is 1600km long and traverses Italy from north to south on a fascinating route extraordinarily rich in natural beauty, artistic and architectural treasures and cultural and spiritual traces. It is one […]
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Luca Pisaroni: bass-baritone
Recital by an acclaimed Italian opera singer Luca Pisaroni, baritoneWolfram Rieger, piano Italian bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni has established himself as one of the most captivating and versatile singers performing today. Since his debut at the Salzburg Festival at age 26 with the Vienna Philharmonic under Nikolaus Harnoncourt, he has performed at many of the world’s […]
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JoyCut
Italian dark-wave post-rock band JoyCut, from Bologna, Italy, were formed in 2001 and named for the conceptual conjunction between the song ‘Joey’ from Nick Drake and Pink Floyd’s album The Final Cut. This post-rock, dark-wave outfit weaves powerful sonic moments using electronic melodies and percussion with found objects from the urban landscape. Often experimental but […]
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