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05/28/2016

The Program of June 1st, 2016 Castelnuovo-Tedesco Release Event in Florence is Online.

You are invited to view and download the ICAMus program for the Castelnuovo-Tedesco CD release event in Florence, June 1st, 2016. The newly released CD What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand to Record?: Settings of Whitman and Shakespeare by Florence-born American composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco is celebrated at the Dischi Fenice record store. With live music performance (Caroline Helton, soprano - Kathryn Goodson, piano). On the occasion, the CD "L'Infinito": Songs from a Lost World of Italian Jewish Composers will also be introduced to the European audience.
04/04/2016

Upcoming Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco CD Release Event in Florence.

The newly released CD What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand to Record?: Settings of Whitman and Shakespeare by Florence-born American composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco - Salvatore Champagne (tenor), Howard Lubin (piano) - is celebrated at the Dischi Fenice record store in Florence, Italy, on June 1st, 2016. Release events participants and guests: Aloma Bardi, Mila De Santis, John Champagne, Caroline Helton, Kathryn Goodson, Castelnuovo-Tedesco family members, Costantino Maiani, Lorenzo Maiani. With live music performance.
03/08/2016

The newly-released Castelnuovo-Tedesco CD has arrived at the ICAMus Studio!

This new CD is an ICAMus collaboration with Oberlin Music, distributed by Naxos: What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand to Record?: Settings of Whitman and Shakespeare, by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Premiere recording of unpublished works. Salvatore Champagne, tenor; Howard Lubin, piano. A 66-page booklet with essays by James Westby, Mila De Santis, Aloma Bardi, John Champagne; illustrated with archival photos. Oberlin Music OC 16-02.
02/12/2016

ICAMus is featured in the programs and posters of Opera di Firenze and Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

The Center is honored to be featured in the printed programs and posters of Opera di Firenze and Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. In our collaboration with Prescott Studio, we have provided historically documented translation of libretti & style revision of projection texts.
01/04/2016

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s early score, inscribed by the composer, donated to the ICAMus Archive.

A charming addition to the ICAMus Archive: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s early score of Alghe, for piano (1920) inscribed by the composer 18 years before Castelnuovo emigrated to the US. A most appreciated gift of Italian artist Dr. Pietro Antonio Bernabei, Florence.
10/12/2015

A new volume being published by ICAMus: European and American Horizons of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Essays from the 2015 Events. Edited by Aloma Bardi.

Original essays from the Florence 2015 events, devoted to Florence-born American Jewish composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968): a session of papers and live performance at the “Intersections/Intersezioni” Conference (5 June 2015) and a conference-concert at the Lyceum (8 June 2015). Published & available for download (PDF) by November 30th, In-Depth Section.
10/04/2015

ICAMus publishes the contents of the session on Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco presented at the “Intersections/Intersezioni” Conference (Florence, June 5, 2015).

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.
09/26/2015

Porgy and Bess turns 80! ICAMus publishes an extensive Discography of the opera, by Aloma Bardi.

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.
09/20/2015

Upcoming on ICAMus: A Film by Exhibitions Curator, Archivist, and Lecturer Bill Doggett, on the Negro Spiritual, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the 13th Amendment.

The film will be launched on the ICAMus Website on Saturday October 3rd, 2015.
03/12/2015

ICAMus presents a session of papers and live music performance at the “Intersections/Intersezioni” Conference (Florence, June 5-7, 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.

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The Program of June 1st, 2016 Castelnuovo-Tedesco Release Event in Florence is Online.

Upcoming Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco CD Release Event in Florence.

The newly-released Castelnuovo-Tedesco CD has arrived at the ICAMus Studio!

ICAMus is featured in the programs and posters of Opera di Firenze and Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s early score, inscribed by the composer, donated to the ICAMus Archive.

A new volume being published by ICAMus: European and American Horizons of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Essays from the 2015 Events. Edited by Aloma Bardi.

ICAMus publishes the contents of the session on Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco presented at the “Intersections/Intersezioni” Conference (Florence, June 5, 2015).

Porgy and Bess turns 80! ICAMus publishes an extensive Discography of the opera, by Aloma Bardi.

Upcoming on ICAMus: A Film by Exhibitions Curator, Archivist, and Lecturer Bill Doggett, on the Negro Spiritual, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the 13th Amendment.

ICAMus presents a session of papers and live music performance at the “Intersections/Intersezioni” Conference (Florence, June 5-7, 2015).

HIGHLIGHTS

Rhapsody in Blue Centennial bibliographic exhibit curated by Prof. Paolo Somigli at the American Music Center Prato.

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

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.

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

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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.