Kekko Fornarelli Trio
Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival Jazz Italia The Swedish group, EST, gave jazz a new language, at the point where melody and atmosphere and jazz and rock colaesced. Italian pianist, Kekko Fornarelli, advances this musical brew – with emotions rich in colours and brightness, strong catchy beats and arching melodies. His star has been burning […]
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Paolo Alderighi
Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival 2013 Jazz Italia Perhaps the most oustanding young musician in europe playing classic jazz: rags, stride and swing. Alderighi, from Milano, has been hailed by audiences from Japan to New York as the pianist who will revive new interest in the piano music of the jazz era – from Fats […]
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Bandakadabra
Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival 2013 Jazz Italia Uplifting, funny, musically clever, theatrical… the 12 piece band from Torino are a disarming group bent on making you have a good time whatever your mood when you come across them. Whether they are playing in a medieval square in Italy; in an opera house; or a […]
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Of Jewish Race
by Renzo Modiano On 16 October 1943, the German army tore 1,056 Jewish Italians from their homes, from their lives and loves, from their routine and familiar objects, and from their home city of Rome. The author of this book was not amongst them, because his father had prepared their flight. He was a Jewish […]
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Note di viaggio
In occasione della Giornata Internazionale della Musica, la Celtic Harp Orchestra, la più importante orchestra di arpe tradizionali al mondo, Vi invita al concerto benefico organizzato a favore del progetto India ” Bullet to the Heart”. NOTE DI VIAGGIO è il titolo che il M° Fabius Constable ha pensato per lasciare al pubblico il piacere […]
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Dark Matter (Materia oscura)
Massimo D’Anolfi, Martina Parenti Edinburgh International Film Festival This fascinating ‘cinematic survey’ of Salto di Quirra, a site used for military training and rocket testing since the 1950s, weaves extraordinary footage of rocket launches from the base’s own archive through the overheard conversations of local farmers and a radio broadcast of a geological investigation of […]
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International Exchange in the European Book World
Fifth Annual St Andrews Book Conference The history of the book has been built on the solid foundations of national, local and individual studies of printers, publishers and publishing networks. While this makes good sense from a practical and logistical point of view, it risks obscuring the essential fact that the production and sale of […]
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Mare chiuso (closed Sea)
GRAMNet, Film Series 2012/2013 Since March 2011, after the outbreak of the Libyan War, many African migrants and refugees escaped from the country. While a part of this flow has found shelter in refugee camps at the border with Tunisia, others managed to reach Italian coasts by boat. Many of them had been previously pushed […]
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Commedia dell’arte
Physical Theatre, Improvisation, Ancestor of Pantomime COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE is the most representative form of theatre in Italian history. Conceived and developed within the arenas of market-place performers, noblemen’s courts and universities, its long life cycle spanned for 250 years from the 16th to the 18th centuries, influencing all other forms of theatre to come. As […]
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An Evening to celebrate Giuseppe Verdi
Music, discussion and a traditional Emilian dinner In homage to the bicentenary of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth, VinCaffè Ristorante and the Italian Institute host an evening of music, discussion and a traditional Emilian dinner. After dinner there will be a short talk by Prof. Ilaria Dioli entitled: “Variations on Taste: Giuseppe Verdi Culinary Compositions”. The talk […]
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