“Emergence” CD Celebration at Dischi Fenice, Florence. Settings of Emily Dickinson poetry, Stone Records. With Aloma Bardi, Emergence Music, and women poets & artists as special guests.
An evening of poetry and music at the historic Dischi Fenice record store in Florence, Italy. The CD Emergence (Stone Records) features musical settings of Emily Dickinson’s poetry and prose texts by Aaron Copland, Luigi Zaninelli, Juliana Hall, Sylvia Glickman, and Ella Jarman-Pinto. With Aloma Bardi, Emergence Music (soprano Nadine Benjamin, pianist Nicole Panizza) and a group of women poets & artists as special guests. An ICAMus program in collaboration with Dischi Fenice.
In the photo above: The Dischi Fenice team. Left to right: Martina Magionami, Silvia Venturi, Danilo Dannery; the CD Emergence is seen on display in the store, March 2022.
PROGRAM OF THE MAY 17, 2022 EVENT AT DISCHI FENICE, FLORENCE
Celebration of the CD “Emergence”(Settings of Emily Dickinson’s texts) with music, poetry, and visual art.
A collaboration of ICAMus with Dischi Fenice, Florence.
The CD includes songs by Aaron Copland, Luigi Zaninelli, Juliana Hall, Sylvia Glickman, and Ella Jarman-Pinto, based on poetry and prose texts by Emily Dickinson, performed by Emergence Music (Nadine Benjamin, soprano - Nicole Panizza, piano). Stone Records, 2019.
Aloma Bardi, Emergence Music (Nadine Benjamin, soprano - Nicole Panizza, piano).
Special guests: Sara Bini, Roberta De Piccoli, Rosaria Lo Russo, Carla Lomi, Lily Prigioniero (poets); Antonella Bardi (artist).
Dischi Fenice, Via Santa Reparata 8/B.
Tuesday, May 17 at 5:30 PM.
In compliance with the anti-Covid measures currently enforced in Italy, face mask and Green Pass are required.
Discover the program of the ICAMus Events in Florence, May 16-18, 2022. The American Art Song: Poets and Composers from the United States; Aloma Bardi and Nicole Panizza, Directors HERE.
We were grateful to our hosts, our friends of Dischi Fenice in Florence, for this opportunity to visit again their historic store devoted to recorded music, and celebrate American music and literature.
Visit Dischi Fenice Website HERE.
