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10/17/2024

A new program with pianist Beniamino Iozzelli, introducing George Crumb into the international piano repertoire of Chopin and Skrjabin.

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.
09/15/2024

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

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.
05/10/2024

Read and download the Program booklet for the upcoming opening event of the American Music Center in Prato, Italy.

The Program booklet (PDF - in Italian) for the upcoming opening event of the American Music Center (Centro di Documentazione sulla Musica Americana) is accessible and can be downloaded from this page. The booklet is also printed and available at the Center. The program provides a guide to the event (presentations & live performances) as well as to the Center’s space and its content (Library & Special Collections).
01/06/2024

The Inauguration Program of our new American Music Center - Prato, Italy, May 18, 2024 - is published.

The public opening of ICAMus in Prato, Italy, includes presentations, performances, and a tour of the Collection. With Aloma Bardi, the Duo Alberto Bologni-Carlo Palese (violin and piano) and special guests. A day of celebration of American Music in its extraordinary diversity through the centuries. Palazzo Martini-Palazzo della Musica, Via Santa Trinita 2, Prato, Italy; Saturday, May 18, 2024, beginning at 5:00PM; free admission to the presentation and visit; admission ticket to the 9:00PM concert.
01/05/2024

An important donation to the ICAMus Special Collections: The Personal Archive of American Composer Douglas Hedwig.

Dr. Douglas Hedwig is an American composer, trumpeter, conductor, scholar, and music educator, who recently (August 2023) donated to ICAMus his extensive personal archive of compositions, sketches, recordings, documenting his extraordinary musical career as a composer and performer. A selection of the Douglas Hedwig Collection will be on display at the new American Music Center in Prato, Italy; the entire Collection will remain accessible for study and research.
12/28/2023

Major news: Establishing the American Music Center in Prato, Italy!

After twenty-two years of activity, ICAMus has now donated the Non-Profit Organization's Library and Archive to the City of Prato, Italy, to create an American Music Center! The Collection and Archive have been moved from the ICAMus Studio in Ann Arbor, MI, to Palazzo Martini, Prato. The public opening of the new Center is announced for May 18, 2024.
05/17/2023

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.

Italian Jewish composers who emigrated to the Americas, and how they contributed to the music and musical life of their countries of adoption: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Vittorio Rieti, and Renzo Massarani. With live music performance. The presentation is part of the 2nd Italian Jewish Studies Conference - La musica e gli ebrei nell’Italia moderna e contemporanea, Camaldoli, Arezzo, Italy, July 3-7, 2023; the conference is organized by Fondazione CDEC and Camaldoli, and is directed by Profs. Gabriele Boccaccini and Gadi Luzzatto Voghera.
04/19/2023

Listening to Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Works for Violin and Piano: CD Celebration at Dischi Fenice Florence.

The EMA Vinci album includes the world première recording of Fantasy for violin and piano on Themes from Donizetti, and of two Greeting Cards from Opus 170. The CD celebration, with the performers, the duo Alberto Bologni-Carlo Palese, and special guests, is coordinated by Aloma Bardi. In Florence, Italy, at the historic Dischi Fenice record store, Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at 6:00 PM. Click on red title to discover the event details!
02/25/2023

The Doctoral Students’ Presentations from the University of Florence Seminar, May 18, 2022, are now accessible (PDF) on the ICAMus Website, In Depth Section; the papers are edited by Dr. Nicole Panizza.

A selection of the doctoral students’ papers presented at Dr. Nicole Panizza’s Seminar on American Art Song “Syllables of Velvet, Sentences of Plush”: American Art Song as Praxis are accessible and downloadable (PDF) in the In Depth Section; edited by Dr. Panizza. In English, with illustrations. Papers by Marco Gallenga, Teresa Poggiali, Marco Rapetti, Ruhama Santorsa. The May 18, 2022 workshop was a collaboration of ICAMus with The University of Florence Dipartimento SAGAS-Doctoral School.
02/01/2023

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

The Trio Moderno Italiano (Alberto Bologni, violin; Fausto Bombardieri, percussion; Carlo Palese, piano) performs a program of American musical innovators: Charles E. Ives, Henry Cowell, Alan Hovhaness, and Lou Harrison. Aloma Bardi’s introductory lecture explores the significance of American musical experimentation and its surprising historical roots. A collaboration of ICAMus with Lyceum Club Internazionale di Firenze. In Florence, Italy, April 18, 2023. Click on red title to discover the program!

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A new program with pianist Beniamino Iozzelli, introducing George Crumb into the international piano repertoire of Chopin and Skrjabin.

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

Read and download the Program booklet for the upcoming opening event of the American Music Center in Prato, Italy.

The Inauguration Program of our new American Music Center - Prato, Italy, May 18, 2024 - is published.

An important donation to the ICAMus Special Collections: The Personal Archive of American Composer Douglas Hedwig.

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.

Listening to Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Works for Violin and Piano: CD Celebration at Dischi Fenice Florence.

The Doctoral Students’ Presentations from the University of Florence Seminar, May 18, 2022, are now accessible (PDF) on the ICAMus Website, In Depth Section; the papers are edited by Dr. Nicole Panizza.

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

HIGHLIGHTS

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

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

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

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

A new program with pianist Beniamino Iozzelli, introducing George Crumb into the international piano repertoire of Chopin and Skrjabin.

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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.