The English edition of Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Visions by Luca Bragalini is in publication by the University Press of Mississippi. An exciting accomplishment for the ICAMus community and Aloma Bardi who have supervised this new international edition. Pre-orders from the spring 2025, available in December 2025.
Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring - Suite for 13 instruments, and Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 for voice and orchestra are included in the December 12, 2024 concert of Camerata Strumentale di Prato conducted by Jonathan Webb, presented by the Palazzo della Musica Prato as a homage to ICAMus. Read and Download the Program Notes by Aloma Bardi.
ICAMus announces a new collaboration with Lyceum Club Internazionale di Firenze. Aloma Bardi (lecturer) and Beniamino Iozzelli (piano) explore the Piano Sonata No. 1 by Charles E. Ives. Lyceum Club Internazionale di Firenze, Palazzo Adami Lami, Lungarno Guicciardini 17, Florence, Italy; Monday, April 14, 2025, at 6:00 PM; free admission with reservation: sezionemusicalyceum@gmail.com.
Welcoming a meaningful addition to the ICAMus library: the recently published music scores by Douglas Hedwig (Da Vinci Edition and Potenza Music, 2021-2024). Each score is inscribed to ICAMus and signed by the composer.
Rhapsody in Blue: un’opera di Gershwin, un work in progress, un’opera “collettiva” [Rhapsody in Blue: A work by Gershwin, a work in progress, a “collective” work] by Prof. Paolo Somigli (Libera Università di Bolzano/Freie Universität Bozen), curator of the Rhapsody in Blue Centennial bibliographic exhibit currently on show at the American Music Center Prato; PDF; in Italian.
At ICAMus, with Aloma Bardi as the newly-appointed Curator, we are planning years of initiatives and events for the American Music Center Prato/Centro di Documentazione sulla Musica Americana: new acquisitions, cataloguing, expansion of our collection, bibliographic and documentary exhibitions, specialist lectures, tailored guided tours of the Center, book-and-recording release celebration events.
The Palazzo della Musica of Prato, Italy, appointed American-music scholar and ICAMus founding director Aloma Bardi as Curator of the American Music Center/Centro di Documentazione sulla Musica Americana in Prato, Italy for the next five years.
We joyfully share the first shots of yesterday's success in Prato. The pianist Beniamino Iozzelli, in his splendid first collaboration with ICAMus, enchanted the audience with his inspired performance of Chopin, Skrjabin and Crumb, where American music entered into dialogue with the great international piano repertoire.
ICAMus launches an ongoing collaborative project with pianist Beniamino Iozzelli. In Prato, Italy, Saturday, October 26, 2024, at 5:00 PM, a new concert program features works by Fryderyk Chopin, Aleksandr Skrjabin, George Crumb (1929-2022). Sala Zipoli, Palazzo della Musica, Via Santa Trinita 2, Prato. Free admission. A collaboration of ICAMus with Scuola di Musica G. Verdi.
Professor Paolo Somigli, a musicologist and longtime collaborator of ICAMus, assisted by the Center’s librarian, Paolo Belli, has curated an exhibit showcasing music scores, landmarks of musicological and biographical interpretation of Gershwin and the Rhapsody, and recordings, including fascinating collector’s items. “Rhapsody in Blue: cent’anni di un capolavoro [100 years of a masterpiece] ” honors the centennial of one of the most influential and beloved American musical compositions of all time. On display September 18, 2024-February 12, 2025; open Mon-Fri, library office hours; Centro di Documentazione sulla Musica Americana, Palazzo della Musica, Via Santa Trinita 2, Prato, Italy.
