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!
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!
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.
Ljuba Bergamelli is a soprano specializing in contemporary music and performance. She sings the ICAMus-Lyceum program Poets and Composers from the United States and the American Art Song. As we wish a speedy recovery to Nadine Benjamin, with a thankful heart we look forward to working with talented Ljuba. 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.
Read and download the complete detailed program of the event Poets and Composers from the United States and the American Art Song, including all song texts and translations. Songs by Lori Laitman, Aaron Copland, Luigi Zaninelli, and Samuel Barber; texts by Mary Oliver, Emily Dickinson, James Agee and Frederic Prokosch.
The poster and postcard of our ICAMus spring events in Florence, Italy, are on display at the historic Dischi Fenice record store (Via Santa Reparata 8/B, Florence) where the Emergence CD celebration will take place on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, at 5:30 PM. With live music, poetry and art. In compliance with the anti-Covid measures currently enforced in Italy, face mask and “Green Pass” are required.
Please note: The May 16, 2022 event in Florence, Poets and Composers from the United States and the American Art Song (scholarly presentations, and concert by Emergence Music) is free of charge and there is no admission ticket, but advance email reservation (“Irene Weber Froboese” <iwf@startext.biz>) and compliance with anti-Covid measures (FFP2 face masks, & Italian “Super Green Pass”) are required.
April’s splendor is shining with a hopeful feeling of renewal around The ICAMus Studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We are getting ready for our new season of spring events in Florence, Italy, May 16-18, 2022: Presentations; Concert; CD Celebration with live music, poetry and art; Doctoral Seminar.
Two different combinations of electric colors (yellow-red and orange-purple) surround the iconic Emily Dickinson daguerreotype (c. 1847) in the poster for the May 2022 ICAMus events in Florence, Italy, focusing on American poetry and American art song, and particularly showcasing settings of Emily Dickinson’s poetry by various composers.
Aaron Copland's song cycle Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson (composed 1949-50) will be performed in Florence, Italy, on May 16, 2022, in an ICAMus program presented in collaboration with Lyceum Club Internazionale di Firenze. Emergence Music (Nadine Benjamin, soprano - Nicole Panizza, piano). The program Poets and Composers from the United States and the American Art Song is directed by Aloma Bardi and Nicole Panizza.
