Barbara Boganini, who has served as Board Member for ICAMus since 2011, shares her experience and success story with the Center in a video which celebrates a new year of initiatives--the 16th since The International Center for American Music was established in January 2002!
A new ICAMus spring concert program of rare works from Pre-Civil War American Music, 1800-1858, takes place in the beautiful Villa Bardini of Florence, Italy, on April 4, 2017. Works by Edward Riley (1769-1829), Benjamin Carr (1768-1831; in America from 1793), Anthony Philip Heinrich (1781-1861), Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864). Myung San Ko, soprano; Kyle Sullivan (baritone); Viola Shaula Valerio (flute); Anna Toccafondi (solo piano, piano accompaniment, ensemble direction); a project by Aloma Bardi. This is the first program carried out by ICAMus within the recently-established Affiliation Agreement with the Music Conservatory of Florence.
An important recent addition to the ICAMus Archive: rare scores of internationally renowned composers, notably Florence-born American composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968), and a collector’s item related to Dutch-born American composer Richard Hageman (1881-1966) and his only opera Caponsacchi, completed in the early 1930s and produced by the Metropolitan Opera in 1937. The items have been donated to ICAMus by award-winning exhibition curator, archivist, and lecturer, Bill Doggett. The Center established a special partnership with Bill Doggett Productions in 2015.
The program of the chamber-music concert Around the New World in Eighty Years - Un giro nel Nuovo Mondo in ottant'anni is online, available for download. ICAMus sponsors and contributes to an American program for clarinet-violin-piano trio in Bologna, Italy, on November 25, 2016. Gabrielle Baffoni (clarinet), Brandon Christensen (violin) and Anna Quaranta (piano); works by Daniel Gregory Mason, Leonard Bernstein, Harold Schiffman, Jeanne Singer, Charles E. Ives and Béla Bartók. Co-sponsored by the University of Bologna and the Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna.
New materials and updates are available on the November 23-25, 2016 Chamber Music Program in Bologna, Italy: Around the New World in Eighty Years - Un giro nel Nuovo Mondo in ottant'anni. ICAMus sponsors and contributes to three American-Music events for clarinet-violin-piano trio. With Gabrielle Baffoni (clarinet), Brandon Christensen (violin) and Anna Quaranta (piano). West-East Counterpoints: The performers meet with the students in a chamber music workshop, and an educational conversation about musical studies in Europe and the US.
Around the New World in Eighty Years - Un giro nel Nuovo Mondo in ottant'anni. Three American-Music events for clarinet-violin-piano trio, and for the three instruments in different formations, in Bologna, Italy, November 23-25, 2016. ICAMus sponsors and contributes to a triple event. Gabrielle Baffoni (clarinet), Brandon Christensen (violin) and Anna Quaranta (piano) perform a program of Daniel G. Mason, Leonard Bernstein, Harold Schiffman, Jeanne Singer, Charles E. Ives and Béla Bartók. Co-sponsored by the University of Bologna and the Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna.
At the Origins of Art Music for the Flute in North America: An Early American Music Program, 1800-1858, is being recorded in Florence this summer, at the historic Villa Favard of Rovezzano, one of the buildings of the Conservatorio di Musica "Luigi Cherubini" di Firenze. ICAMus and the Florence Conservatory of Music are collaborationg on this project, integrating research, performance, teaching, and recording of Early-Romantic American Music.
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.
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.
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.
