The Global Power of Music
Continuing our conversation with Maestro Mauro Pagani, with whom I met over the course of the summer in the city to talk about music, politics, culture, and his New York experience. One of the topics we covered during a long walk along the Hudson River was Southern Italian Music and its influence on Italian music at large
“Modernity’s problem is communication, especially in this time of cultural globaliza-tion. And good communication depends upon cross-cultural exchange.”
January 7, 2014
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Gracie Mansion
Jerry Krase
Waiting to see Mayor Bill De Blasio at Gracie Mansion.
There have been so many complaints about Bill De Blasio’s inauguration in the right-wing (di destra) mass media and apologies in the left-wing (di sinistra) mass media that I thought I should take a look/listen at his speech.
Italian minister among Foreign Policy's Global Thinkers 2013
Italy's Integration Minister Cecile Kyenge is one of the 100 most influential thinkers of 2013, the American magazine Foreign Policy said Tuesday.
Letta praises ruling that children can take mother's surname
Italian Premier Enrico Letta praised a European Court of Human Rights ruling Monday that two Italian parents should be allowed to give their daughter her mother's surname.
Stallone, De Niro team up for boxing film 'Grudge Match'
Decades after Oscar winner Robert De Niro and Hollywood favourite Sylvester Stallone played boxers in hit movies, the pair have teamed up for a fight film that hits movie screens on Thursday. Naturally, aging was a hot topic for the pair during a news conference on Tuesday to promote the European premiere of their film 'Grudge Match'.
Three Kings Day Tradition Spreads Across The Country
From East Harlem in New York to Disneyland in Southern California, many Latinos on Monday will celebrate a Christmas holiday that some believe is even bigger than December 25, the Día de los Reyes.
The night before Epiphany in Italy, the good witch Befana delivers sweets to good kids, coal to bad ones
The holidays have passed and the New Year is upon us. In Italy, Jan. 6 marks the day when the three wise men bring gifts to the infant Jesus. This is Epiphany, the end of the Christmas season. In Italy, the night before Epiphany, also known as a twelfth night, is known to most children as a night when the good witch, known as the Befana, arrives on her broomstick and brings sweets, chocolates, fresh fruit and treats to the children have been good and coal to those who have not.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2014/01/05/4731454/the-night-before-epiphany-in-italy.html#storylink=cpy
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2014/01/05/4731454/the-night-before-epiphany-in-italy.html#storylink=cpy
La Befana in tempi di scarpe rotte
E se nella calza delle attese adulte, nella calza delle nostre speranze potessimo trovare un nuovo slancio spirituale capace di contrastare la pesantezza del solo pensiero materiale e illuminare i potenti della terra affinché comprendano che vale l’uomo più del potere? Se ognuno scoprisse, benché le difficoltà presenti, la solidarietà come regime, la compassione come struttura, l’amore come meta? Allora sì, potrebbe darsi che la Befana consegni la speranza di una nuova avventura capace di rinnovare la società nel suo tessuto profondo, al suo interno
Italian Politician Bersani Has Brain Hemorrhage
Doctors say Pier Luigi Bersani, a longtime Italian center-left leader who tried but failed to form a government after Italy's inconclusive 2013 election, has suffered a brain hemorrhage. The University of Parma hospital said Bersani was undergoing surgery late Sunday after the source of the hemorrhage was located. It said he had been hospitalized earlier in the day but remained conscious.
From L’Aquila Quake’s Rubble, an Academic Birth
In 2009, one of the deadliest earthquakes in recent Italian history hit the central Italian town of L’Aquila. A few days later, Eugenio Coccia, then director of the nearby Gran Sasso National Laboratory, the world’s largest underground laboratory for particle physics research, sat at his desk in a building that had escaped the devastation, and pondered.
Likely U.S. listing to further sideline Italy in Fiat-Chrysler group
Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne's merger of carmakers Fiat and Chrysler will probably entail a U.S. share listing that cements North America as the group's new centre of gravity and further sidelines Italy. Two sources close to Fiat said it was likely to move its primary listing to New York as early as 2015 after a merger with Chrysler, the third-largest U.S. automaker, heralding a politically delicate shift of focus that reflects the operating facts.
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