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FUTUREEVENTS

XV WEEK OF ITALIAN LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD (OCTOBER 19 – 24)

“ITALIANO DELLA MUSICA, LA MUSICA DELL’ ITALIANO”

• October 22 – LECTURE: Italy's Songwriters and their Literary Roots

location: EMBASSY OF ITALY

• October 23 – CINEMA: Vecchi Pazzi

location: NYU AUDITORIUM

• October 24 – SYMPOSIUM: Italian Language and Culture Conference: New

Directions in Teaching and Research

location: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

SPECIALEVENT§ October 25 – KIDS EURO FESTIVAL: Aria di Commedia by Pazzi Lazzi

location: THE KENNEDY CENTER MILLENNIUM STAGE

ONGOINGEVENTS

EXHIBITION – Le Onde: Waves of Italian Influence (1914-1971) date/location: UNTIL JANUARY 2016 @ HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN

INFO AND SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE

EMBASSY OF ITALY

3000 WHITEHAVEN STREET NW, WASHINGTON, DC

October 21, 2015 at 6:30PM

(OCTOBER 19-24, 2015)

IN COLLABORATION WITH

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GreatConversationsinMusic

XV ITALIAN LANGUAGE WEEK IN THE WORLD

The Week of the Italian Language in the World promotes Italian as a great language of classical and contemporary culture. Every year the diplomatic and cultural network of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation chooses a theme for this initiative and organizes a series of events in the third week of October. In 2015, Under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic of Italy, for the XV edition of the Week of the Italian Language in the World - October 19 through October 24 - the chosen theme is "Italiano della musica, la musica dell'Italiano."

The Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with the Library of Congress, presents a documentary selection, from the four part television series "Great Conversations in Music", featuring some of the world's most renowned artists in candid and revealing discussions, with the participation of Marta Istomin and Anne McLean. These programs were created and hosted by the late Eugene Istomin (1925-2003), one of the world's most admired classical musicians. This presentation includes additional footage as well as an additional program, "Chamber Music," released here for the first time. ANNE MCLEAN is Senior Producer for Concerts and Special Projects at the Library of Congress. Trained as a musicologist and pianist, she has produced concerts, radio broadcasts, recordings and symposia for the Nation’s Library for thirty years, developing partnerships with many cultural institutions worldwide. Ms. McLean has worked closely with the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute, bringing to the Library such distinguished Italian artists as Rinaldo Alessandrini, Il Giardino Armonico, Sara Mingardo, Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante, to name just a few.

MARTA CASALS ISTOMIN was born in Humacao, Puerto Rico on November 2, 1936 as Marta Angélica Montañez Martínez. She first played the cello for Pablo Casals when she was 15-years-old, while studying at the Mannes School of Music. Casals accepted her as a student and eventually she became an active participant in his renowned Festival at Prades. Five years later, in 1957, they were married. Together, Marta and Pablo Casals founded the Casals Festival, the Puerto Rican Symphony Orchestra, and the Conservatory of Music in San Juan, Puerto Rico. When he died in 1973, she carried on his work through the Pablo Casals Foundation in Barcelona. She continued to run the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico on her own and became a professor of cello at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. In 1975, she married the pianist Eugene Istomin, also a protégé of Casals. In 1980 her work was brought to the attention of Roger L. Stevens, who invited her to become Artistic Director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a position she held for a decade (1980-90). In 1990, when she left the Kennedy Center, she was made general director of the Evian Music Festival in France, and in the same year President George H.W. Bush appointed her to the National Arts Council of the National Endowment of the Arts. She has served on the board of Harcourt Brace Publishers and as a trustee of the Marlboro Festival and the Marymount School and, in 1992, became president of the Manhattan School of Music. Marta Casals Istomin transformed the Manhattan School of Music and brought in a wave of distinguished artists—Pinchas Zukerman, Kurt Masur, Isaac Stern, Anna Moffo, Evgeny Kissin, Mstislav Rostropovich, and many more—to perform and give master classes. If a Living Legend Award is meant to honor those who have made significant contributions to our cultural heritage, then Marta Casals Istomin is eminently deserving of this prize. Her work has served generations of musicians who have benefited from her standards of education as well as distinguished world artists who have performed under her direction.

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