The revised contents (papers, recital program and texts, photos of presentations and of live performance) of the ICAMus session on Florence-born American composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco at the “Intersections/Intersezioni” Conference (Florence, June 5, 2015) are being published on the ICAMus Website, In-Depth section.
Aloma Bardi, a long-time Gershwin scholar, has written a "Porgy and Bess" Discography, in publication on the ICAMus Website, to honor the 80th anniversary of the Broadway premiere of George and Ira Gershwin's opera: October 10, 1935-2015.
The film will be launched on the ICAMus Website on Saturday October 3rd, 2015.
Florence-Born US Composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) And His Unpublished Settings of Whitman & Shakespeare Poetry. The session includes live performance of rare, unpublished songs. Participants: Aloma Bardi, Salvatore Champagne, Howard Lubin, John Champagne, Mila De Santis, Eleonora Negri.
World premiere performance of the early Fantasie for Two Pianos by Samuel Barber. ICAMus grants its sponsorship to the Duo Keira (Michela Chiara Borghese and Sabrina De Carlo, pianos) and their Festival in Rome opening on February 27, 2015.
Read the praising reviews of the Samuel Barber CD Souvenirs & Recollections (Pianists Giampaolo Nuti and Daniela De Santis) released by Stradivarius with the collaboration of ICAMus, including rare early piano pieces and world premiere recordings. A year ago we celebrated the CD release with an event in Prato, Italy. Today we invite you to learn about its international success.
You're the Top was successfully presented in Prato, Italy, on December 31st, 2014 by the Camerata Strumentale: Seventeen songs from different Cole Porter musicals arranged in four instrumental suites-fantasies by composer-pianist Alessandro Lucchetti. Read and download the Event Program, with a Note by Alessandro Lucchetti, and an ICAMus Program Note contributed for the Center by Aloma Bardi.
ICAMus announces the upcoming release (spring 2015) of a CD of unpublished settings of Whitman and Shakespeare by Florence-born American composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, a collaboration of ICAMus with the Oberlin Music record label. Tenor Salvatore Champagne, pianist Howard Lubin; a 50-page Booklet with original essays by James Westby, Mila De Santis, Aloma Bardi, John Champagne; texts, documents, archival images.
ICAMus has established a new Affiliation with American Music Preservation, a very large informational website devoted to the preservation of American music through resources and publications, Roger L. Hall, Director.
ICAMus announces its events in Florence, June 2015, focused on Leaves of Grass and Shakespeare Sonnets, unpublished art songs by Florence-born American composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968). A Conference and a Recital on 06-08-2015.
