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05/17/2023

ICAMus session at the 2nd Italian Jewish Studies Conference - La musica e gli ebrei nell’Italia moderna e contemporanea, Camaldoli, Arezzo, Italy, July 3-7, 2023.

ICAMus is honored to be taking part in a major international conference, organized by Fondazione CDEC - Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea, and Camaldoli: 2nd Italian Jewish Studies Conference - La musica e gli ebrei nell’Italia moderna e contemporanea, Camaldoli, Arezzo, Italy, July 3-7, 2023. The Conference is directed by Profs. Gabriele Boccaccini and Gadi Luzzatto Voghera; Diletta Cesana, Fundraising & Assistant to the Director.

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In the photo above: the Monastery of Camaldoli (Arezzo, Italy) where the 2nd Italian Jewish Studies Conference - La musica e gli ebrei nell’Italia moderna e contemporanea organized by Fondazione CDEC - Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea takes place, July 3-7, 2023.

 

The ICAMus research for the CDEC-Camaldoli Conference 2023 deals with Italian Jewish composers who emigrated to the Americas, and how they contributed to the music and musical life of their new countries: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Vittorio Rieti, and Renzo Massarani. Presentation by Aloma Bardi, concert by Caroline Helton (soprano) and Muse Ye (piano).

A collaboration of ICAMus with the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance, and the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, for the CDEC-Camaldoli Conference 2023.

Presentation - Wednesday, July 5, 2023 at 4:30 PM.

Concert - Wednesday, July 5, 2023 at 9:00 PM.

The presentation and concert are part of the 2nd Italian Jewish Studies Conference - La musica e gli ebrei nell’Italia moderna e contemporanea, organized by Fondazione CDEC - Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea (Milan, Italy) and Settimane Camaldolesi.

 

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PROGRAM OF THE ICAMus SESSION at the 2nd Italian Jewish Studies Conference - La musica e gli ebrei nell’Italia moderna e contemporanea, organized by Fondazione CDEC - Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea (Camaldoli Arezzo, Italy), July 3-7, 2023.

 

Wednesday, July 5, 2023 at 4:30 PM - Aloma Bardi, Come divennero compositori americani. Espatrio e trasformazione in Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Vittorio Rieti, Renzo Massarani [How They Became American Composers: Emigration and New Beginnings in Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Vittorio Rieti, and Renzo Massarani].

 

Wednesday, July 5, 2023 at 9:00 PM - Caroline Helton (soprano) and Muse Ye (piano).

 

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968)

-- Vocalise-Étude (Chant Hébraïque) (1928)

-- Tre Fioretti di Santo Francesco (1924)

 

 Felice Boghen (1869-1945)

-- Vocalise (1932)                                                                                             

 

 Renzo Massarani  (1898-1975)

-- Due madrigali (1937)                                                                              

-- Quattro canti veronesi (1934)

 

  Vittorio Rieti  (1898-1994)

 -- da Quatre poèmes de Max Jacob (1933)                                                     

            La crise                                                                                                  

            Soir d’été

 

-- da Quattro liriche italiane (1945)                                                                                        

            La non vuol esser più mia                                                                                         

            E lo mio cor s’inchina

 

-- da Five English Songs (1949)                                                                                              

            To the Virgins, to make much of Time                                                                    

 

-- da Two Songs between Two Waltzes (1957)

            Maid Quiet (A Madrigal)

            Brown Penny (Another Waltz)

 

-- da Four D.H. Lawrence Songs (1960)

            Aware

            Thomas Earp

 

-- da Five Elizabethan Songs (1967)

            Madrigal

 

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Above: One of the Cloisters of the Monastery of Camaldoli (Arezzo, Italy) where the 2nd Italian Jewish Studies Conference - La musica e gli ebrei nell’Italia moderna e contemporanea, organized by Fondazione CDEC - Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea takes place, July 3-7, 2023.

 

 

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