The program-guide to the exhibit "Discovering and Interpreting Charles Ives, 1890-2025" is accessible for download.

Brochure Card for the Ives event in Florence, April 14, 2025.

As we look forward to the new year with great anticipation, we are happy to share the latest ICAMus collector’s item: the brochure card for our upcoming spring event in Florence, Discovering the Piano Sonata No. 1 by Charles E. Ives: A Lecture-Recital with Aloma Bardi and Beniamino Iozzelli; Lyceum Club Internazionale di Firenze, Palazzo Adami Lami, Lungarno Guicciardini 17, Florence, Italy; April 14, 2025.

“Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Visions” by Luca Bragalini in publication by the University Press of Mississippi.

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.

Read and Download the Program Notes by Aloma Bardi for the Concert of Camerata Strumentale Prato conducted by Jonathan Webb (Copland, Barber) presented as a homage to ICAMus.

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.

Discovering the Piano Sonata No. 1 by Charles Ives: A Lecture-Recital with Aloma Bardi and Beniamino Iozzelli.

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.

Recently Published Music Scores by Douglas Hedwig Donated by the Composer to The ICAMus Library.

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.

New article by Prof. Paolo Somigli, honoring the centennial of Rhapsody in Blue published on the ICAMus Website.

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.

ICAMus is looking at the future: Planning years of initiatives and events for the American Music Center Prato/Centro di Documentazione sulla Musica Americana.

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.

Aloma Bardi appointed Curator of the American Music Center/Centro di Documentazione sulla Musica Americana in Prato, Italy.

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.

Great Success for Beniamino Iozzelli’s Concert in Prato, Italy: A Gallery of Photographic Memories.

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.