panel discussion | Freedom & Movement Festival This panel discussion will explore the role of audio drama in documenting and dissecting political events, the experience of bringing history to life through sound, and the challenges and pleasures of reaching new audiences. Moderator Sarah Montague, producer of PRI’s Selected Shorts and a frequent guest director with Play for Voices, will speak…
Journalist and photographer Frank Van Riper will discuss his latest book, Recovered Memory: New York and Paris 1960-1980 (just out in the U.S. with Daylight Books). Van Riper’s striking black and white photographs, spanning twenty years, coupled with his eloquent texts, capture the 20th-century romance and grit of New York more than half a century ago, and Paris, some forty years ago.…
Music of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968) Pianist David Witten has been described as a pianist "with that rare, elusive quality that charms and fascinates the listener." (Redondel, Milan, Italy) Witten's international career has included numerous concert tours in Ireland, Finland, Russia, Ukraine, Europe, Mexico, South America, and China. As the recipient of a 1990 Fulbright Scholar award, Witten spent…
On Monday, November 19th, please join us for “A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada”, a book talk with Edyta Bojanowska. When American Commodore Matthew Perry famously sailed to open trade relations with Japan in 1852, a Russian expedition secretly on the same mission followed on the heels of his squadron. Serving as secretary to the…
Giuseppe De Santis (1949) In conjunction with the exhibition NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932-1960 Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice) (Italy, 1949, 109 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Directed by Giuseppe De Santis Starring Silvana Mangano, Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling Introduced by Jenny McPhee, NYU. In Northern Italy’s Po Valley, an earthy rice-field worker (Silvana Mangano) falls in with a…
Antonio Pennacchi Casa Italiana hosts this book club that meets once a month to discuss contemporary Italian books in Italian. The Club is open to anyone and its purpose is to offer the possibility to practice the Italian language. Everybody is encouraged to speak. The group suggests the books, usually by contemporary Italian authors, that reflect the changes that have…
A Conversation with Michael Fabiano The third Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features American tenor Michael Fabiano, currently starring at the Metropolitan Opera in Boito's Mefistofele and in Puccini's La Bohème. Michael Fabiano appears by courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera. In ENGLISH. From the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo.
Music by Berio, D. Scarlatti, and Schubert Co-sponsor: Italian Cultural Institute of New York Free admission; reservations are not required (seating is first come, first seated; doors open at 7:30 PM). This recital by Andrea Lucchesini, co-sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, celebrates the release on the Audite label in September 2018 of the CD "Dialogues (Scarlatti…
LECTURE/PANEL DISCUSSION: What (Jewish) Identity is Not… A talk by Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur To RSVP, please click here. The question of identity is a preoccupation in both France and the United States today, for somewhat different reasons, and debates about identity politics play out in very different ways in the two countries. Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur has spoken and written about the…
Exhibition opening: On December 2, 1938, just weeks after Kristallnacht, the first group of unaccompanied Jewish refugee children arrived in the United Kingdom. LBI and Yeshiva University Museum launch an exhibition exploring this remarkable effort that saved some 10,000 children, many of whom never saw their parents again.