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01/05/2024

An important donation to the ICAMus Special Collections: The Personal Archive of American Composer Douglas Hedwig.

Dr. Douglas Hedwig is an American composer, trumpeter, conductor, scholar, and music educator, who recently (August 2023) donated to ICAMus his extensive personal archive of compositions, sketches, recordings, documenting his extraordinary musical career as a composer and performer. A selection of the Douglas Hedwig Collection will be on display at the new American Music Center in Prato, Italy; the entire Collection will remain accessible for study and research.
12/28/2023

Major news: Establishing the American Music Center in Prato, Italy!

After twenty-two years of activity, ICAMus has now donated the Non-Profit Organization's Library and Archive to the City of Prato, Italy, to create an American Music Center! The Collection and Archive have been moved from the ICAMus Studio in Ann Arbor, MI, to Palazzo Martini, Prato. The public opening of the new Center is announced for May 18, 2024.
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.

Italian Jewish composers who emigrated to the Americas, and how they contributed to the music and musical life of their countries of adoption: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Vittorio Rieti, and Renzo Massarani. With live music performance. The presentation is part of the 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 organized by Fondazione CDEC and Camaldoli, and is directed by Profs. Gabriele Boccaccini and Gadi Luzzatto Voghera.
04/19/2023

Listening to Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Works for Violin and Piano: CD Celebration at Dischi Fenice Florence.

The EMA Vinci album includes the world première recording of Fantasy for violin and piano on Themes from Donizetti, and of two Greeting Cards from Opus 170. The CD celebration, with the performers, the duo Alberto Bologni-Carlo Palese, and special guests, is coordinated by Aloma Bardi. In Florence, Italy, at the historic Dischi Fenice record store, Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at 6:00 PM. Click on red title to discover the event details!
02/25/2023

The Doctoral Students’ Presentations from the University of Florence Seminar, May 18, 2022, are now accessible (PDF) on the ICAMus Website, In Depth Section; the papers are edited by Dr. Nicole Panizza.

A selection of the doctoral students’ papers presented at Dr. Nicole Panizza’s Seminar on American Art Song “Syllables of Velvet, Sentences of Plush”: American Art Song as Praxis are accessible and downloadable (PDF) in the In Depth Section; edited by Dr. Panizza. In English, with illustrations. Papers by Marco Gallenga, Teresa Poggiali, Marco Rapetti, Ruhama Santorsa. The May 18, 2022 workshop was a collaboration of ICAMus with The University of Florence Dipartimento SAGAS-Doctoral School.
02/01/2023

ICAMus spring program in Florence: Musical Experimentation in the New World; Lecture and Concert. A collaboration with Lyceum Club Internazionale di Firenze.

The Trio Moderno Italiano (Alberto Bologni, violin; Fausto Bombardieri, percussion; Carlo Palese, piano) performs a program of American musical innovators: Charles E. Ives, Henry Cowell, Alan Hovhaness, and Lou Harrison. Aloma Bardi’s introductory lecture explores the significance of American musical experimentation and its surprising historical roots. A collaboration of ICAMus with Lyceum Club Internazionale di Firenze. In Florence, Italy, April 18, 2023. Click on red title to discover the program!
01/19/2023

New ICAMus Publication: “Emergence” CD Celebration at Dischi Fenice, Florence, May 17, 2022, with poetry and visual art. A volume including American-music research, images, and memories. Edited by Aloma Bardi.

ICAMus has published a new volume (PDF) including all materials from the Celebration of the CD Emergence: Settings of Emily Dickinson’s texts; Emergence Music (Nadine Benjamin, Nicole Panizza; Stone Records). With music, poetry, visual art. A collaboration of ICAMus with Dischi Fenice. Edited by Aloma Bardi. Poetry by Sara Bini, Roberta De Piccoli, Rosaria Lo Russo, Carla Lomi, Lily Prigioniero; artwork by Antonella Bardi. Texts in English and Italian; narrated in Italian. Click on red title to discover the content!
12/15/2022

Newly Published! “Syllables of Velvet, Sentences of Plush”: American Art Song as Praxis. Lecture by Dr. Nicole Panizza Released in the In-Depth Section.

Dr. Nicole Panizza’s Doctoral Seminar on American Art Song was a collaboration of ICAMus with The University of Florence Dipartimento SAGAS. Dr. Panizza’s May 18, 2022 presentation is published (PDF) as part of her seminar with the doctoral students. In English. Click on red title to discover the content!
11/04/2022

New ICAMus publication. Inner Sounds: The Themes of Nature and Identity. “Nature Is What We Hear.” Lecture by Aloma Bardi Released in the In-Depth Section.

Aloma Bardi’s conference paper presented at the Lyceum Club Internazionale Firenze, May 16, 2022. A Collaboration of ICAMus with the Florence Lyceum. A study of the American Romantic imagination—philosophy, poetry, art—and its impact on the American Art Song. Click on red title to discover the content!
05/15/2022

Welcoming to Florence soprano Lorna Windsor to sing in tomorrow’s program with ICAMus and Lyceum Club Internazionale di Firenze.

Tomorrow in Florence! Lorna Windsor is a versatile soprano whose repertoire ranges from art song to opera, operetta, musical comedy, and contemporary music. She performs songs by Lori Laitman, Aaron Copland and Luigi Zaninelli, to texts by Mary Oliver and Emily Dickinson, in the ICAMus-Lyceum program Poets and Composers from the United States and the American Art Song. Monday, May 16, at 4:30pm, Lyceum, Lungarno Guicciardini 17, Florence. Email reservation (“Irene Weber Froboese” <iwf@startext.biz>) and FFP2 face masks are required.

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An important donation to the ICAMus Special Collections: The Personal Archive of American Composer Douglas Hedwig.

Major news: Establishing the American Music Center in Prato, Italy!

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.

Listening to Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Works for Violin and Piano: CD Celebration at Dischi Fenice Florence.

The Doctoral Students’ Presentations from the University of Florence Seminar, May 18, 2022, are now accessible (PDF) on the ICAMus Website, In Depth Section; the papers are edited by Dr. Nicole Panizza.

ICAMus spring program in Florence: Musical Experimentation in the New World; Lecture and Concert. A collaboration with Lyceum Club Internazionale di Firenze.

New ICAMus Publication: “Emergence” CD Celebration at Dischi Fenice, Florence, May 17, 2022, with poetry and visual art. A volume including American-music research, images, and memories. Edited by Aloma Bardi.

Newly Published! “Syllables of Velvet, Sentences of Plush”: American Art Song as Praxis. Lecture by Dr. Nicole Panizza Released in the In-Depth Section.

New ICAMus publication. Inner Sounds: The Themes of Nature and Identity. “Nature Is What We Hear.” Lecture by Aloma Bardi Released in the In-Depth Section.

Welcoming to Florence soprano Lorna Windsor to sing in tomorrow’s program with ICAMus and Lyceum Club Internazionale di Firenze.

HIGHLIGHTS

Discovering the Piano Sonata No. 1 by Charles Ives: A Lecture-Recital with Aloma Bardi and Beniamino Iozzelli.

Aloma Bardi appointed Curator of the American Music Center/Centro di Documentazione sulla Musica Americana in Prato, Italy.

Great Success for Beniamino Iozzelli’s Concert in Prato, Italy: A Gallery of Photographic Memories.

A new program with pianist Beniamino Iozzelli, introducing George Crumb into the international piano repertoire of Chopin and Skrjabin.

A new exhibition at the American Music Center Prato, honoring the Rhapsody in Blue Centennial, curated by Prof. Paolo Somigli.

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Aloma Bardi, Graduate Course "American Musical Romanticism", University of Florence.

Concert "Walt Whitman and American Art Song", Florence.

Journée d’étude sur Charles Ives, École Normale Supérieure, Paris.